Top 11
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 12:31 pm
Hi anyone have information on what top 11 is flying in and around boscombe down Thursday and Friday thanks
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Re: Top 11
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:05 pm
Could it relate to TOPSTAR ? Is "TOP" a callsign you heard with your ears or a ping ping ?
Re: Top 11
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 3:02 pm
It was the PC21
Re: Top 11
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 8:22 pm
UK based?
Re: Top 11
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 10:57 pm
Yes. Boscombe based and operated by Qinetiq 
Re: Top 11
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 9:54 am
Was quite often a pair, Top 11 and Top 21 (nice and orderly sequential registrations G-ETPA and G-ETPB), they seemed to split and merge and be doing some sort of basic 1v1 air combat manoevering.
Re: Top 11
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 10:16 am
So is the callsign simply "Top"?
Re: Top 11
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 10:34 am
They were using Topstar on both A2A and ATC comms. Using Boscombe Radar for quite considerable A2A, you'd have thought BDN would have a dedicated A2A freq rather than nabbing an ATC one.
Re: Top 11
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 10:38 am