Exercise Jaded Thunder - RAF Leeming

[tony54321]

This NOTAM covers the next few days.

EXER JADED THUNDER. MULTIPLE MIL ACFT INCLUDING FAST JETS, WILL
CONDUCT HIGH ENERGY MANOEUVRES WI FLW AREAS:
OTTERBURN(SFC-FL190) 551600N 0022500W - 553200N 0021000W -
553200N 0014500W - 552000N 0014500W - 551100N 0021300W -
551600N 0022500W.
SPADEADAM (SFC-FL240) 551700N 0025900W - 551700N 0024500W -
550200N 0020000W - 544500N 0020000W - 543100N 0020500W -
543100N 0022300W - 545600N 0024200W - 545500N 0025000W -
550900N 0025900W - 551700N 0025900W.
CATTERICK (SFC-FL090) 543100N 0023200W - 543100N 0014700W -
542100N 0013900W - 541200N 0014600W - 541800N 0022300W -
543100N 0023200W.
ACFT MAY BE UNABLE TO COMPLY WITH RAC. 16-07-0063/AS3

LOWER: Surface, UPPER: FL240
FROM: 13 Jul 2016 10:00 GMT (11:00 BST) TO: 20 Jul 2016 16:00 GMT (17:00 BST)
SCHEDULE: 13-15 18-20 1000-1600

[David Thompson]

Four 'Little Birds' took off and headed north at 13:00 and as I left at 14:10 some of the A10's were being prepared for flight with pilots in cockpits .
Two Islanders were around this morning , two possibly three Lynx as well as the based Hawks and Tutors .

[Bradsim]

Two a10s just overflew Acklam trailing a Falcon 20

[The_Edge]

Top work Bradsim I got a video of them over Middlesbrough

[Bradsim]

For the record, one was 81-0960

[tony54321]

Can anyone confirm what callsigns they were using today?

[tony54321]

Flight of 4 inbound sounds like helicopters @1615 local

[tony54321]

The way I understand it is, flying on 13 14 15th of July and again on 18 19 20th
But they are flying today and that's not NOTAM'ed, so who knows!!

[Bradsim]

81-0690 is showing up on otne with a callsign of 80000281 which would make it 80-0281 so which one is it?

[David Thompson]

Defender ZG998 c/s AAC528 descending west of York and appears to be inbound back to Leeming from Scampton .

[Ferrari]

4.15 seen from the car
4 Little Birds and 3 A-10s RTB Leeming.
Had my scanner with me - Little Bird was ?61?
Any help with the serials greatly appreciated.
Regards
Ferrari

[TombsRIP]

81-0690 is showing up on otne with a callsign of 80000281 which would make it 80-0281 so which one is it?

Try 80-0281 which has been mark 1 eyeballed.
No 81-0690 at leeming for ex.

[David Thompson]

Shadow ZZ504 c/s Snake 54 just in .

[Blackcatlad]

Today's log:

79.0091 KC A-10C 442nd FW/AFRC [Boar 01]
80.0281 KC A-10C 442nd FW/AFRC [Boar 02]
79.0107 KC A-10C 442nd FW/AFRC [Boar 03]
79.0122 KC 442FW A-10C 442nd FW/AFRC
78.0605 KC A-10C 442nd FW/AFRC [Hog 01]
79.0152 KC A-10C 442nd FW/AFRC [Hog 02]
79.0123 KC A-10C 442nd FW/AFRC
ZG995 Defender AL2
ZF537 Lynx AH9A [Pilgrim 51]
ZG885 Lynx AH9A
ZG916 Lynx AH9A [AAC622] (arr/dep.)
ZG998 Defender AL2 [AAC528]
ZZ504 Shadow R1 [Snake 54]
XX258 CE Hawk T1 100Sqn [Aggressor 1]
XX265 CP Hawk T1 100Sqn [Aggressor 2]
XX200 CO Hawk T1 100Sqn [Javelin 34]
XX332 CD Hawk T1 100Sqn [Javelin 32]
XX284 CN Hawk T1 100Sqn [Pirate 14]
XX191 CC Hawk T1 100Sqn [Pirate 09]
ZH005 Defender AL2 [AAC511]
ZA551 043 Torn GR4 u/m (EGR's)
ZG771 'RAF Marham 100yrs' Torn GR4 [Wolf 21] (serials for 'Wolf' flt from SBS)
ZA614 076 Torn GR4 [Wolf 22]
(o/f low level)
XW216 Puma HC2 [SHF060]

Stevie T

[Blackcatlad]

...and forgot, also x4 A/MH-6M's which flew a sortie to Otterburn and back as 'Varmint 61 - 64''.

From my photographs I can confirm the following serials for the H-6's:
23631 'Varmint 61'
23652 'Varmint 62'
25354 'Varmint 63'
24319 'Varmint 64'

ST

[adderman]

Hi Folks

XW216 on SBS.

Mike

[Ferrari]

Great log Stevie T
Thanks for posting
Ferrari

[Durranhill]

Heard at least 1 of the above A-10's , could have been Boar 01 but it sounded like 401 working Spade on 282.050 , dep back to Leeming at 16.06 approx with Spade handing him over to the Leeming director .

Stewart .

[Thunder]

'Little Bird' is the name given to the AH/MH-6 helicopters, same as 'Thunderbolt II' is the A-10 or 'Chinook' is the CH-47.

[Tiger 1]

Hi everyone.

Just wondering what the flying will be like this Friday the 15th (ie) can we expect a full day?, I could be in the area in the afternoon, be worth while dropping in for look.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Best rgds

T1