A pair of Falcons from Hurn and a single Hawk off the north Cornish coast yesterday afternoon. The latter was 'visible'for just a short period.
Two KC2 Voyagers refuellers (ID MADRS38 and 39. Reg ZZ334 and 336 ) flying very close together but 1,000 ft height separation (haven't seen MADRS used before), ZZ336 is the posh one.
Lots of other Brize activity COMET453 / Airbus400M flying around 1,000 feet east of Upavon
ASCOT483 Airbus400M ZM403 doing Kirmington at 2,500 feet
OT but a look at north Cornwall this morning revealed a single 'Hawk' off South Wales. It turned out to be something different - Aero Vodochody L-39ZA G-SHMB
It flew from St Athan to Warton (9,000 ft, 310 kt) where it did three C&Bumps before a tour of Blackpool at well below 1,000 feet before landing.
There used to be one of those at Manston, when it was an airfield, often doing very low fly overs along the runway. I wonder if it is the same one, although my Manston sightings were over 10 years ago.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
A pair of Falcons from Hurn and a single Hawk off the north Cornish coast yesterday afternoon. The latter was 'visible'for just a short period.
Two KC2 Voyagers refuellers (ID MADRS38 and 39. Reg ZZ334 and 336 ) flying very close together but 1,000 ft height separation (haven't seen MADRS used before), ZZ336 is the posh one.
Lots of other Brize activity COMET453 / Airbus400M flying around 1,000 feet east of Upavon
ASCOT483 Airbus400M ZM403 doing Kirmington at 2,500 feet
Today Valley and Leeming Hawks were up in packs, but not much happening in the southwest
Looking at the two voyagers in formation
I wonder if these guys are playing the GPWS game.
My friend was a 747 captain and one of the games to break the boredom when flying around the stack (4 at LHR) was to fly short circuits to catch up the a/c above. If you can position the 747 directly under the a/c above it triggers the Ground Proximity Warning System of the a/c above and gives them a rude awakening.
I know they are not supposed to do non-scheduled stuff but boys will be boys and all that. A bit like the cockpit flight I had with a Braathens SAFE F28 into Bergen. With ATC approval the pilot flew a very steep,very short approach which won the crew about 10 minutes on the schedule. His argument was, "it saves fuel for Braathens and I get time for a pee and a coffee.". When you are an ex-F16 pilot you can do stuff like that.
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