What was flying around St. Austell overnight.

[Local Spotter]

Heard a low flying aircraft over St Austell area, early hrs of morning. Anyone got any ideas?

[phat01]

Had a chinook flying around between 0100-0200am

[Red Hound]

I don't know if it is linked but whilst checking http://www.live-mobile-mode-s.eu/search ... geven=EGDR, Cornwall, UK I noticed that a Chinook was out and about at 01:18 this morning.

[Local Spotter]

Thanks, sounds as if exercises are on somewhere. Maybe a joint operations exercise in the St Austell Bay Area?

[ultraburner]

Remember being awoken by something - but it didn't sound like a chinook to me... However I was half concious, so could be mistaken! Culdrose hawks appeared to be more active than usual this morning south of St Austell, so there could well be an exercise on.

Also of note, I think two Lynx/Wilcats passed over us (South of St Austell) at about 1800 yesterday, heading west - was dark so couldn't id!

[Local Spotter]

I would imagine some kind of exercise is going on. I'm sure I saw a Hawk and a Falcon flying around around St Mawgan yesterday.

[buzzer]

Message deleted! !

[Local Spotter]

Thanks.... Can only assume they had the Hawks up.

[EGDR]

Thanks.... Can only assume they had the Hawks up.

Yep, four landed back at Culdrose at about 1615L

[Local Spotter]

Thanks, still a bit puzzled by the very loud noise after midnight. Assume the Hawks were up then?

[buzzer]

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[Dunk]

Guys this type of request should go in the OTT/Heads up section, where the post will also have more visibility.

Thanks

[buzzer]

Guys this type of request should go in the OTT/Heads up section, where the post will also have more visibility.

Thanks

Sorry dunk.
But yet again the spotters of the SW are victimised by others on this forum.
I replied to the above request with what I thought was a sensible reply.
With in 10 minutes of it being posted, the forum tit! That is Mike views it....and goes of to tell on us for posting in the wrong section..!
Such a shame for what was a cracking forum is being killed ( just like the Facebook page is !) By just a couple of people hell bent on pissing people off!
I'm sure it's not just me that has noticed the number of posts in the local sections slowly dwindling down to nothing over the last 12 mouths? ? I wonder why
so congratulations to the 2 main instigators. . Your slowly killing the forum
mods if you feel you now need to delete my account? ? Feel free..as I've had it with all the negative replies and have gone else where!

[Dunk]

I don't think name calling is called for.

Nobody is victimising this section, there are forum rules, which you and every other member has agreed to when signing up.
All I've asked is that in future you post in the relevant section as it's more use to other members and yourselves.

If you wish to leave, then I wish you well, but I'm sure you don't need to take such drastic action over simple requests to abide by the forum rules.

Cheers

Dunk

[DaveG]

Dunk, not wanting to stir anything up and wanting to understand the problem. You state:

Nobody is victimising this section, there are forum rules, which you and every other member has agreed to when signing up.
All I've asked is that in future you post in the relevant section as it's more use to other members and yourselves.

Are you talking about these Forum Rules, being the only ones I can find, if so where in there does it "tell us" and "we signed up to" that state, posting is restricted within this section and we should not post local OTT topics where the interest is in "local" traffic.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=24285

Only interest in which rule you refer to please?

[buzzer]

It's the constant digging out by just 2 people that has got so many people upset.. as is evident by the lack of posts in the local section. Others seem to be able to post what they like where they like and get left alone? ??
Why they feel the need to dig out some and not others, is beyond me!

[Seafire 47]

I don't think name calling is called for.

Nobody is victimising this section, there are forum rules, which you and every other member has agreed to when signing up.
All I've asked is that in future you post in the relevant section as it's more use to other members and yourselves.

If you wish to leave, then I wish you well, but I'm sure you don't need to take such drastic action over simple requests to abide by the forum rules.

Cheers

Dunk

I disagree completely,as Buzzer stated it's the same two that consistently target the SW section and the result of which has led to two of the most prolific and informed posters to quit. Quite a few photos were posted in SW section for a while and you Mods didn't seem to mind until the above mentioned individuals began their little crusade.
I understand the need for rules but are these minor infractions really such a big deal?,do you feel it's worth the loss of some truly dedicated members of our hobby just to satisfy what is quite clearly a very small but vendictive minority?
It's small wonder that the SW section has become so quiet.

[buzzer]

It's such a shame the way this forum has gone.. It use to be a very informative friendly forum. Now it seems there are people on here that want to upset as many as they can!
think it's time for me to move on aswell

[Seafire 47]

As I recall the same thing happened to a similar forum with one or two bad apples with too much time on their hands that upset the whole cart.

[Wrighty]

The two Chinooks that came down in the early hours were

LIFTER 1 ZA670
LIFTER 2 ZA718

Saw them RTB over myself about 1530 this afternoon