Fairford - NOTAM 8 March 2012

Post by **tm74sqn** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:42 pm

EGVA (FAIRFORD)
Q) EGTT/QMRXX/IV/NBO/A/000/999/5141N00147W005
B) FROM: 12/03/08 03:00C) TO: 12/03/08 08:30
E) RWY 09/27 OPEN FOR SCHEDULED ACFT U0728/12

Presumably for departure of 68-10329.

TM74

Post by **SamP** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:59 pm

Interesting that they're posting the departure Notams so far in advance now!

Post by **SamP** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:38 pm

Notam's up for the afternoon arrivals too...

U0729/12 - RWY 09/27 OPEN FOR SCHEDULED ACFT. 08 MAR 13:30 2012 UNTIL 08 MAR 15:00 2012. CREATED: 07 MAR 12:15 2012

Post by **tm74sqn** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:48 pm

The morning NOTAM is still on the NATS web site, but the afternoon one seems to have gone.
TM74

Post by **SamP** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:52 pm

tm74sqn wrote:The morning NOTAM is still on the NATS web site, but the afternoon one seems to have gone.
TM74

The afternoon Notam is still up!

Post by **MikeB** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 5:27 am

Dragon51 (329) departed FFD at 0555

Post by **MikeB** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:45 am

Dragon51 (071) on ops 1 hour out

Post by **MikeB** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:46 am

Adam wrote:Get a decent shot of it Mike?

Of course!

Post by **nickel_55** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:48 am

can you confirm tail number?

Post by **SamP** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:56 am

nickel_55 wrote:can you confirm tail number?

Just waiting on the confirmation!

Post by **MikeB** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:08 am

071.

Mike

Post by **SamP** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:48 am

MikeB wrote:071.

Mike

Yup! Standard fit

Post by **ROB MkIX** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:26 pm

Hi all,
Please can anyone tell me if 071 has been left outside or not. Any help is much appreciated as ever.

Thanks

Rob

killing-joker · Post by **killing-joker** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:38 pm

I'm slightly confused as a message said that Dragon51 departed as 329 this morning and later Dragon51 (071) was with Ops.
Both aircraft can't have been Dragon51.
I cycled past Fairford a couple of hours ago, not even knowing there were any U2s due and saw one outside the hangar.
Is that likely to have been 071 please?

Post by **MikeB** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:42 pm

killing-joker wrote: Both aircraft can't have been Dragon51.

They can and were!

I guess 329 is taking over what 071 was going to do, therefore took his callsign, I'd guess that 071 will go out as Dragon 53 (If that makes sense, it does in my head! - Just my guess theory though, could be wrong)

Yup it would have been 071 you noticed.

Cheers,
Mike

killing-joker · Post by **killing-joker** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:49 pm

OK, thanks Mike.
Just confirm then - 2 x Dragon51 were airborne at the same time - 1 inbound and 1 outbound?
I can understand them both having the same callsign but only so long as they are not both active at the same time, knowing all about ATC and flight plans.

Rgds

Post by **MikeB** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:51 pm

killing-joker wrote:OK, thanks Mike.
Just confirm then - 2 x Dragon51 were airborne at the same time - 1 inbound and 1 outbound?
I can understand them both having the same callsign but only so long as they are not both active at the same time, knowing all about ATC and flight plans.

Rgds

Indeed, they weren't being worked within the UK at the same time, but were both airborne.

Cheers,
Mike

Post by **BOLLO** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:42 pm

DRAGON 21 80-1080 inbound to FFD,switching 127.250 at 15.42.

Post by **SamP** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 4:31 pm

Confirmed by a friend as 80-1080, standard fit with no chalk.

Post by **Raptor22** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:28 pm

Hey guys,

Out of curiosity does anyone know if either of these are outside and viewable? If they were I might consider taking a trip down tonight to view them!

Many thanks in advance

John