Scotnight 2018

[np1991]

Bucky it was indeed J-5001 that departed for home as Swiss 411 today.

[Bucky P]

Bucky it was indeed J-5001 that departed for home as Swiss 411 today.

Thanks np1991

[eagle driver]

Yaahooo
np1991 you have just made an old man very happy thank you.

[np1991]

Your welcome guys

[Skirgey]

Had a lot of comms on 363.650 today

[whiteout75]

Hi,

Is there any pattern to the night flying activity? Specifically, is there a rough time they are going out? (trying to organize a trip).

Many of the photos i've seen so far look like twilight/dusk, which i would imagine any time from 1600L onwards.

Thanks.

[Focal_Plane]

For those interested, arrival callsigns/serial ties up as follows:

Swiss 401A - J-5236 - F18D
Swiss 401B - J-5021 - F18C
Swiss 401C - J-5026 - F18C
Swiss 401D - J-5014 - F18C

Swiss 411 - J-5001 - F18C

Swiss 405A - J-5233 - F18D
Swiss 405B - J-5018 - F18C - Special markings
Swiss 405C - J-5009 - F18C
Swiss 405D - J-5020 - F18C

Swiss 409A - J-5232 - F18D
Swiss 409B - J-5010 - F18C

Posted in order of arrival, all Hornets parked on Charlie hard and put into Hangar K17 during the afternoon.

Thanks for posting the list Naill, very useful.

I wondered if you might have approximate landing times for each cell and do you have any details of the support? I understand T-729 was in yesterday with the ground crew being flown in on HB-JVE. Just wondering if anything else came in.

Regards,

John

Hi John, sorry for the delay in replying. Times for each cells arrival were :

Swiss 401 - 1035
Swiss 411 - 1048
Swiss 405 - 1050
Swiss 409 - 1102

Other support has been Falcon 900 T-785 on 9/11 with Beech 1900 T-729 on 7/11 and 13/11 so far.

That's great, thank you very much

[the weatherman]

Hi all was up lossie the day for a few hours and it was very quite 3 typhoons went out late afternoon but apart from that nothing much happning the f18 did not go out will up there even tho the time for them going out for the first sorty was 13 45 but was there to the back of two nearly three but nothing is there anything happing the mora or the same as the day hop so like it when its busy anyway thanks in advance if any info would be well appracated cheers

[Morayhandyman]

Hi Weatherman
You missed all the activity it all happened after it started to go dark typhoons up and from what I could see most of the F18's has been fairly quiet during the daylight hours to be honest

[onemac]

Second week is night flying but there has been a couple of waves at 13:45 early this week.

Al

[Bluetail]

No F-18 flying on the 23rd

[onemac]

No F-18 flying on the 23rd

Cheers Jim.

Al

[Unknown74]

Pardon my curiosity but which area of Lossiemouth Airfield are the Swiss Hornets operating from? Guessing it's the former 15 Sqdn area?

Unfortunately not going to make it up to see them but I was curious about the above.

[toom317]

You guessed correctly.

[Unknown74]

Cheers, lucky guess then.

[CosmonautX]

Trying to organise another (sadly less frequent) visit to Lossie for the end of the week, and I'm hoping to catch the Swiss. Tomorrow looks like a bust - weather seems likely to deteriorate pretty badly toward the afternoon/evening - so I'm looking at the 30th. Have they been carrying out any afternoon/evening sorties on Fridays? Or would the best bet be to try and swing a day next week instead?

[onemac]

Trying to organise another (sadly less frequent) visit to Lossie for the end of the week, and I'm hoping to catch the Swiss. Tomorrow looks like a bust - weather seems likely to deteriorate pretty badly toward the afternoon/evening - so I'm looking at the 30th. Have they been carrying out any afternoon/evening sorties on Fridays? Or would the best bet be to try and swing a day next week instead?

They've not flown today as yet which was sad as the Typhoons were using 10. Wind is due to drop tomorrow but well overcast and last Friday they were due for late evening sorties but cancelled. I think they flew during the day though. Problem is that the winds are due to increase again on Friday then it's back to night flying on the last week.

Sorry to be so evasive but I never could make up my mind either

Al

[CosmonautX]

Thanks, Al - much appreciated. I'll keep an eye on the forecasts overnight and make a decision in the morning.

What's the fencing situation like at Lossie now? I know there was talk of replacing the fence at some points earlier in the year, but is it still possible to get reasonable access at the 23 and 05 ends or is a ladder job all round now?

[vulcanxl425]

The fencing at 23 and 05 has been replaced by new wooden fencing and is slightly higher but no problem.
Possibility tomorrow of USN "Convoy" flight from Sigonella and onward to Keflavik.

[CosmonautX]

Good to hear - many thanks :-)