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A lot of display slots for next month

Start date/time: 05/02/2018 10:30 UTC
End date/time: 28/02/2018 15:00 UTC
Activity period: 05-09 12 13 16 20-23 26-28 1030-1100 1430-1500
Lower height limit: 000
Upper height limit: 081

AIR DISPLAY BY MIL ACFT. WI 5NM 530535N 0000958W (CONINGSBY AD,
LINCOLNSHIRE). 2018-02-0119/AS1

Just to confirm, timing are local 1030-1100 1430-1500
5th to 9th
12th , 13th, 16th
20th to 23rd
26th to 28th

Weather and serviceability depending etc, slots looks like BBMF. Guessing it's an slightly early start if they want to be ready for the RAF 100th

Or alternatively it could be to do with the work up of the "100 formation" they started practising at the end of December.

Unlikely, they haven't posted a route for it like last time. Just looked at the alt block and that suggests it's the Typhoon rather than BBMF. Wonder if the team are off to the Middle East, like they did a couple of years ago

These are Typhoon slots. By mid month they hope to be at 500ft

flyingslug_0 wrote:These are Typhoon slots. By mid month they hope to be at 500ft

Mid month....? Feb? March? Jim (Display Pilot) still has at least 3 5000ft practices to complete. All being well, he should be down to 1500ft by the first 2 weeks of Feb. The first 500ft practice should come end of Feb/early March.

Display pilot did his first over-base 1,500ft practice today at around 15:00, with last years pilot in the back seat. 5 more to go until dropping 500ft in height!

flyingslug_0 wrote:Jim will be at 1,500 today he has 6 slots at that height then 6 more at 1,000 and then 6 more again at 500.

6 is the minimum requirement at each height. Going on previous years display work ups it can often be ten or more at each height.

Hello, so this week (12th +) will be at 1000'? Is there a wind speed/maximum gust limitation?

Cheers

C-Harvey wrote:Hello, so this week (12th +) will be at 1000'? Is there a wind speed/maximum gust limitation?

Cheers

Hi! There should be at least 3 practices this week, taking place on Monday, Tuesday and Friday at either mid morning or mid afternoon (occasionally both slots will be used, so 2 displays a day, but rare). He is halfway through his 1,500ft workup so will almost certainly be finishing that height this week. I'd imagine the first 1,000ft workup will take place on Tuesday 20th Feb, but depends on how many slots are used this week.

Hope this helps

Harvey

It certainly is helpful, cheers

I saw this;


H0546/18: Exercises will take place

1 FAST JET ACFT WILL CONDUCT HIGH ENERGY MANOEUVRES WI 5NM
530535N 0000958W (CONINGSBY AD, LINCOLNSHIRE). ACFT WILL CONDUCT ONE
HIGH PERFORMANCE CLIMB TO 10000FT AMSL. ACFT MAY NOT BE ABLE TO
COMPLY WITH RAC. RTF CTC CONINGSBY 119.200MHZ AND TEL 01526 347959.
2018-02-0119/AS4
FROM: 13 Feb 2018 10:30 GMT
TO: 28 Feb 2018 15:00 GMT
SCHEDULE: 13 16 20-23 26-28 1030-1100 1430-1500

...and thought it might be useful to post here.

Jim, the Display Pilot, has successfully completed his 1500ft workup. The first 1000ft Display will be on Tuesday 20th at either 10:30 or 14:30