Culdrose Visitors - Oct

[buzzer]

Yeh I was there too, a Junglie landed on the beach around 1400, Wokka landed around 1500 and brought 3 USL'S in from the Hartland Point.
Bulwark and Mounts Bay also moored in St Austell with various Marine craft coming and going to the beach.
A larger vessel appeared on the horizon in the afternoon with Apaches, Lynx and Sea Kings carrying out approaches to it.

Chinook returned to beach at 1815 to pick up USL's.

What a great day!!

i'm guessing you got some nice snaps of it all nick?? best stick them up so we can all see

[Nick.M]

Sure have, got sand blasted by the chinook, need to wash my hair!!

[Malfatron Malkovic]

Another visitor today was Sea King 4, making the briefest of stops around 2pm, can't remember if it was ZA310 or ZA312
So, to attempt to log this week's visitors, here goes:

01/10 : Chinook HC.4 (!) ZA713
Chinook HC.2 ZH777
Lynx AH.7 XZ177
Lynx AH.7 XZ654
Merlin HC.3 ZJ119/C - To Depth
Merlin HC.3 ZJ134/S - Fuel stop
Merlin HC.3A ZJ998/AE - Depart Depth
Dauphin ZJ782

02/10 : Squirrel (N0 ID)
Lynx AH.7 XZ645
Falcon 20 G-FRRA

03/10 : Squirrel HT.1 ZJ272/72
Sea King HC.4 ZD626/S

04/10 : Lynx AH.7 XZ191/A

05/10 : Chinook HC.4 ZD983([!]Again - the first HC.4s i've yet seen)

06/10 : Sea King HC.4 ZA310 ( or 312!)

As this week marks the first time i've seen a Chinook HC.4, i'll add a snap or two

ZD983

And the Lynxes - XZ177

XZ191/A

[Aircraftpaulcornwall]

Hi all,
This may or may not be related!! - This morning at around 0900BST (0800Z) I observed an AEW Sea KIng (with its 'bagger' radar lowered) manouevering to the NE of here - distance estimated at 5 miles and estimated height 2200ft. It was circling, sharply at times, then it moved away to the east and disappeared.
Did any of your 'boxes' pick this up?? Would be interested to know!! Many thanks --Paul

[Nick.M]

The Sea King Mk4 on the beach today was ZA310 coded B.

[Malfatron Malkovic]

Hi all,
This may or may not be related!! - This morning at around 0900BST (0800Z) I observed an AEW Sea KIng (with its 'bagger' radar lowered) manouevering to the NE of here - distance estimated at 5 miles and estimated height 2200ft. It was circling, sharply at times, then it moved away to the east and disappeared.
Did any of your 'boxes' pick this up?? Would be interested to know!! Many thanks --Paul

If any help, Paul, it most have launched off one of the boats, i am certain no Sea King ' AEW' launched from CU today.

[Aircraftpaulcornwall]

Hi Malf,
Yes, many thanks mate - that one must have come off of one of the boats as you say - thanks again --Paul

[Nick.M]

Update: After some searching and checking, can only assume there were two Sea King HC4s around. ZG820 is showing up on another two logs further up county. Guess with the Marines around I'd expect a few HC4s in the area.

Sorry Dave should have said, there were definitely two mk 4's yesterday in the bay up at the same time.

[buzzer]

Both the lynx and the two Chinooks there when I passed at 12:00.
All fod and weather covers on.?? So not shore if it's them out to play today??
Maybe the airfield is opening for the "mail" run to the ship??

[voodoo]

Just had a merlin ZH827 pop up on me box @ 15:01 plus a hit from an Apache ZJ233 @ 14:57

*from what i can gather from my info the Apache should be in the vicinity of Culdrose about now 15:27 think Machette 2 is the callsign

[buzzer]

a Merlin came in on 12 at about 15:15.. guessing this was your above Merlin dave? popping from the floating callsign on the daily mail run??
EDIT: yeap it was.. landed, unloaded it passengers(all wearing the nice orange immersion suits ) and took of not long after!
Thanks to MALF for the info..
Any news on the whereabouts of the Apache Phil/dave??

[voodoo]

i tried to mlat it and it came back as just south of Culdrose however there were only a low number of hits so not too sure on the accuracy of this?! Currently got good coms 2 way on 247.700 with Tiger 2 doing ship to ship transfers

[voodoo]

Hi Dave I'm a7, based in Penryn i have the SBS1 box currently switching between the supplied antenna sitting on a window ledge and a D777 up on the chimney! hoping to get a proper 1090 antenna at some point soon though! i can get stuff going into culdrose down to about 700ft before i loose it!

[voodoo]

Cheers for the info Dave, I'm still learning to to drive all the bits n Bob's that go with it! ill have a play in the week with moving the
Locations around and hopefully get one of them radar rama antennas in the near future and get that up on the chimney if not just to wind the Mrs up by putting more bits up there be a bonus to up my range!

[Malfatron Malkovic]

As of 18:30 this evening;
Both Chinooks gone, presumed returned to Odiham.
3 Lynxes parked-up.(no ID - too murky)

[Malfatron Malkovic]

Well done, Mr.T! Thank you very much!

[buzzer]

out from a ship to pick up a pint of milk more than likely dave

[Malfatron Malkovic]

Nothing else recorded for this evening? I only ask because i am sure i heard the distinctive chop-chopping of a Chinook dropping in - around 18:50. Walking through an avenue of trees at the time, so couldn't spot a thing.

[bertieb]

And anything yesterday evening (Mon 15.10)? I ask because at 9.15pm I was near the harbour at Porthleven when a jet came in from over the sea and turned as if to join runway 12 - an unusual approach. Only clues, 2 red starboard lights and sounding more like a Falcon 20 than a hawk.

[Malfatron Malkovic]

Yep, i also heard and saw it, also assumed it to be a Falcon 20.