Lossiemouth Friday 30/5

[vulcanxl425]

Mildenhall MC=130J in this morning serial 13-5776 c/s Strix 67 first low approach Rw23 at 1128 more to follow.. Also approaches Rw05.

[Malcy]

saw a couple of choppers in the vicinity … flying west to east about noon? could have been Merlins or bigger. was in Elgin at the time.

contact lenses in so I cannot ID from the back of my camera

[Joseph841795]

Falcon01 P8 ZP805 dept 09:15 ish, circuits at Prestwick, landed 12:30 ish?

[Joseph841795]

Jedi flight Typhoons dept 12:00 ish, landed 13:10 ish

[vulcanxl425]

saw a couple of choppers in the vicinity … flying west to east about noon? could have been Merlins or bigger. was in Elgin at the time.

contact lenses in so I cannot ID from the back of my camera

Merlin HM1 ZH856 c/s Navy 535 was showing on FR24 in locality around midday before routing north to Orkney / Shetland islands.

[Malcy]

Merlin HM1 ZH856 c/s Navy 535 was showing on FR24 in locality around midday before routing north to Orkney / Shetland islands.

pretty sure there was more than one … cheers for the info

[np1991]

There was a pair, arrived from Prestwick.
Conducted a rotors running refuel on Echo before heading to Sumburgh.

[vulcanxl425]

Thanks for update Niall . The Merlins now at Bergen.

[Malcy]

There was a pair, arrived from Prestwick.
Conducted a rotors running refuel on Echo before heading to Sumburgh.

Cheers Niall

[muscat90]

There was a pair, arrived from Prestwick.
Conducted a rotors running refuel on Echo before heading to Sumburgh.

Confirmed on departure from Prestwick
ZH856 followed by ZH832

[Lumix]

Mon 02/06:
A trio of R.Navy Merlins just passed overhead Orkney low-level at 13:05L heading south. Presumably the 2 mentioned above plus another. None of them plotting.

[np1991]

Sadly not, different three and were Navy 750 flight which landed at Kinloss.
Fridays pair were Navy 535

[Lumix]

Sadly not, different three and were Navy 750 flight which landed at Kinloss.
Fridays pair were Navy 535

Ah well, such is life. Hopefully there will be serials to come in due course.

[np1991]

Sorry for the delay in this, the three Navy Merlin Hc4s were: ZJ992/AB, ZJ119/C and ZJ123/G