Royal International Air Tattoo 2019 Discussion Thread

[Steven]

Weather cancellations for Friday:

Belgian F-16AM - Taxi past only
Royal Jordanian Falcons
Italian C-27J Spartan
CV-22B Osprey
Italian F-2000A
Romanian MiG-21 LanceR
Royal Air Force BBMF
NATO Flypast
Patrouille de France Display
RAF Tucano (circuit only)
USAF F-16CM
RAF Tutor T1 (circuit only)
RAFAT Red Arrows

[wonkybob]

Weather cancellations for Friday:

Belgian F-16AM - Taxi past only
Royal Jordanian Falcons
Italian C-27J Spartan
CV-22B Osprey
Italian F-2000A

what about the italian m-346

[MRTT]

Romanian MiG cancelled.

[TREBAX_RAVEN]

[reaper493]

Seen a few photos and videos on Facebook, weather isn't playing ball!!

Hope something has got airborne.

[TREBAX_RAVEN]

Chinook currently displaying

[James Cutting]

Reason why I go for the weekend for these exact reason, camera stayed warm and dry so far!

[gavin.biggs]

Anyone know why nothing is going up? Cloudbase looks good, no rain? What's the hold up? Are they preparing for the Nato flypast?

[Steven]

BBMF, NATO Flypast and Patrouille de France also cancelled for today due to weather.

[James Cutting]

US F-16 cancelled. Cloud too low.

NATO E-3 may go up.

[CHILL51]

NATO 01 is up holding overhead Brize at FL50 with an ETA back overhead Fairford at 14.15L

[Callum1998]

3 F-15’s just launched from the heath so maybe flying through with the E-3?

[Olief22raptor]

Any news on the Harriers? Heard they hadn’t validated yesterday

[seven]

Probably because they don't need to! One flew earlier.

[Olief22raptor]

Probably because they don't need to! One flew earlier.

Excellent,thanks!

[Flightech]

I understand low level clouds as it affects visibility but do you think an 18 mph wind speed could stop the display from going ahead ?

Glad Im going tomorrow

[Mike]

Probably because they don't need to! One flew earlier.

Or did their validation at Yeovilton cover them for RIAT too?

[seven]

Which would be easily covered by 'they don't need to'

And no worries Ollie.

Edit, can't remember if the did validate at VL or not, but if they did it would indeed cover both. Pretty sure they had already been validated for RIAT anyway.

[skywatch]

Reds were due up at 11.58 today - Now I see 15.22 for them. Was that wx related or tech or ops? - Anyone know?

[PeteHemsley]

Probably because they don't need to! One flew earlier.

Or did their validation at Yeovilton cover them for RIAT too?

They did not validate nor need to validate for yeovilton as that was not a display. They were only doing the full display at riat only.