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Cottesmore seeing some action

Start date/time: 28/11/2017 12:00 UTC
End date/time: 02/12/2017 02:00 UTC
Activity period: 1200-0200
Lower height limit: 000
Upper height limit: 035

TACTICAL LANDINGS USING NIGHT VISION DEVICES. 3 LARGE MIL ACFT
WILL CONDUCT CIRCUITS AND TACTICAL LANDINGS WI 5NM RADIUS 524404N
0003857W (COTTESMORE, RUTLAND). FOR INFO 01993 897618. 17-11-0222/AS3

ALL times local/GMT apart from the 28th then it's ADD 1 hour

Same again in a couple of weeks

Start date/time: 06/11/2017 12:00 UTC
End date/time: 11/11/2017 02:00 UTC
Activity period: 1200-0200
Lower height limit: 000
Upper height limit: 035

TACTICAL LANDINGS USING NIGHT VISION DEVICES. 3 LARGE MIL ACFT
WILL CONDUCT CIRCUITS AND TACTICAL LANDINGS WI 5NM RADIUS 524404N
0003857W (COTTESMORE, RUTLAND). FOR INFO 01993 897618. 17-11-0237/AS4

ALL times local/GMT

Hi Gary
Thanks. I had picked up the info about next week. The July exercise was quite interesting to watch. Although it was dark it was possible to pick out the aircraft as they flew circuits and made the approach , landing and the manoeuvres on the runway.
The images were somewhat on the dark side

Something just come out of Cottesmore rather low and quiet I assume it was a Herc?

C-17 ZZ174 did a number of passes. Such excitement in the village! (South Witham)

Thanks that explains the lack of noise as it banked round Oakham.

Omen1 arrived just after 2004hrs and was still around at 2115.

An excellent exhibition of low level night flying. Try 122.100, at 2124hrs still flying a pair of handcuffs pattern.

An orange tinted gibbous moon. If I hadn't put my foot in a bl....y puddle it would have been a perfect evening.

C130

Cheers

At 2129hrs, just called "Final landing"

Best wishes for a safe trip home.

Fun shot of Omen1 from astern taken just prior to touchdown on the threshold of 04.

Flashing Nav lights, landing lights on, caught in the prop blur.

C24_0015-Night-1 by Charlie, on Flickr

Will try again later!

28/11/17-02/12/17 still on the cards?

Liking the image, good to see a different attempt.
Explanation gives an understanding of the effect result too.

Morning,
Not much cloud about, let's hope that it a good Omen for this evening
I haven't found anything to contradict the NOTAM so there may be some activity, if as previously, 2000hrs for an arrival. The sensible move would be to phone the number and ask! ADSB doesn't always pick up movements.
Fun photos RM. You should see the gezillions of black rectangles with blobs of blurred spots of colour. Beats watching TV
Full report later

A great opportunity to really ramp up the ISO.
Financially, nothing is lost; alternatively, you'll find the limits of the camera sensor and ISO handling capability.
As the press says (and often shows), a noisy picture is better than a blurred one, or none at all!
In-camera noise reduction and good software can go some way to minimising this effect.
I've been out and about at night, with auto-ISO at 12000 - 250000 ISO to experiment.
Give it a go.

1715hrs

2 X C130. At Cottesmore

19.50 - Brize based Skyvan C-FARA currently shown operating over Cottesmore - night jumping I guess

That would make more sense of my interpretation of this:

H7431/18: Parachute jumping will take place
Click here for an interpretation
MIL PARACHUTING WI 2NM RADIUS 523931N 0003812W (RUTLAND WATER,
VCY OAKHAM, RUTLAND). DROP HGT SUBJ ATC CLR. FOR INFO 07970 363249.
2018-10-0156/AS3
FROM: 09 Oct 2018 13:00 GMT (14:00 BST)
TO: 10 Oct 2018 05:00 GMT (06:00 BST)

I went looking for people wearing wetsuits.