Did you know that registration to Fighter Control is completely free and brings you lots of added features? Find out more....
Flying @ Linton
-
- Posts: 10
- Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:51 pm
Flying @ Linton
Been a few Hawks doing touch and go's at Linton over the last week - usually one at a time but today there's two in the pattern! Can't get any details on them from ADSB sadly...
Anybody know where they're from and what they are doing?
Anybody know where they're from and what they are doing?
-
- Posts: 2578
- Joined: Sun Sep 12, 2010 8:00 pm
- Location: Teesside
Re: Flying @ Linton
A post appeared on some of the local forums/Facebook pages which states ;
"This email is to inform you that the airfield will
recommence flying operations from the 22 June
2020 , initially with our Tutor aircraft and also
from 3rd July 2020 with up to six Hawk jet
aircraft operating from RAF Linton-on-Ouse
until 20th July 2020 . Planned flying hours will
be 08:30-18:00 hrs Monday to Friday . Once the
Hawk aircraft have departed after 20th July it is
expected that RAF Linton-on-Ouse will return to
routine Tutor flying until their final departure
in December 2020 ."
Apparently a new air conditioning system is being fitted in the Leeming control tower and hence the temporary move .
"This email is to inform you that the airfield will
recommence flying operations from the 22 June
2020 , initially with our Tutor aircraft and also
from 3rd July 2020 with up to six Hawk jet
aircraft operating from RAF Linton-on-Ouse
until 20th July 2020 . Planned flying hours will
be 08:30-18:00 hrs Monday to Friday . Once the
Hawk aircraft have departed after 20th July it is
expected that RAF Linton-on-Ouse will return to
routine Tutor flying until their final departure
in December 2020 ."
Apparently a new air conditioning system is being fitted in the Leeming control tower and hence the temporary move .
Youth is wasted on the young !
-
- Posts: 10
- Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:51 pm
Re: Flying @ Linton
Thanks David - nice to see something about again - shame it's not on a more permanent basis!
Re: Flying @ Linton
Heard them today 3/7/20 call sign Savage used. As I have said before on here its a loverly place for spotting. The quite with intermittent sky lark noise is delightful ! Why not put the Reds their
"A Rhubarb" is a sortie of opportunity !
-
- Posts: 10
- Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:51 pm
Re: Flying @ Linton
I'm amazed they've gone for such a busy place for them (and the other two locations were likely to cause loads of crashes on the A1 with people watching the reds and not the road). Linton would have been perfect!
Re: Flying @ Linton
Quick correction to my hawk report after consulting my log. The call sign was "pirate" not savage. I believe pirate to be 100 sqd. Question for you all. Are 100 sqd still on mk1 hawks or have they been given any glass cotpit MK 2s ?
Cheers
Cheers
"A Rhubarb" is a sortie of opportunity !
Re: Flying @ Linton
100Sq only have T1s. The T2s are all at Valley
Re: Flying @ Linton
Both Pirate and Savage are Leeming 100 sqdn callsigns, and they fly Hawk T1/1A.
Re: Flying @ Linton
16.50 XX198 as 'Pirate29' been operating orbits in the Louth and Grimsby areas - now recovering in to LoO
17.10 XX261 as 'Pirate17' been operating in the Newcastle area
3Greens
17.10 XX261 as 'Pirate17' been operating in the Newcastle area
3Greens
Re: Flying @ Linton
At least 2 overshoots at Newcastle today, XX261 was the second one
Re: Flying @ Linton
I still need one of the detached Hawks! Can anyone tell me whether they are parked out when not active, or hangared. TIA
Chris
Chris
Re: Flying @ Linton
Hi
Are the hawks still at Linton until Monday evening?
All the best
Andy
Are the hawks still at Linton until Monday evening?
All the best
Andy
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 21 guests