Buzzed!

[Stoo]

Yup, I just got buzzed again

Pictures to follow

Someone might want to put a 56k warning on the top of this thread..

[Stoo]

Right.. here we go

Oi! Mind me aerial!




Blimmin' 'eck, get any lower and I'll be able to scrub your undercarriage on the way past!

Better photo's this time.. They came over even lower than last time.. the Sun was in a better position too this time

[yamangman]

Nice shots, have you been sitting by your camera since the others flew past the other day?

[MA_Moby]

Right, i've found out what it's all about. It's the Queen's birthday bloody flypast . They formed up off Southwold before buggering off down to buzz Buckingham Palace. What you saw the other day, Stoo, must have been the dry run.

[Stoo]

Originally Posted by yamangman

Nice shots, have you been sitting by your camera since the others flew past the other day?

naa, they flew over several times so I had plenty of time to grab the camera and start snapping

I just wish I had a better camera, the photo's get quite grainy out on the maximum (3x) optical zoom..

[Stoo]

Originally Posted by MA_Moby

Right, i've found out what it's all about. It's the Queen's birthday bloody flypast . They formed up off Southwold before buggering off down to buzz Buckingham Palace. What you saw the other day, Stoo, must have been the dry run.

Aaaah, looks like they combined both that and the RAF Neatishead flypast then

Actually, that's a bit odd, that's a damned long way away to form up for a fly-past...

[MA_Moby]

Originally Posted by Stoo

Aaaah, looks like they combined both that and the RAF Neatishead flypast then

Actually, that's a bit odd, that's a damned long way away to form up for a fly-past...

Not really, when you think about where they've all had to come from, and the fact they've got to get through a lot of busy airspace in an orderly fashion.

I spotted it in todays NOTAMs. A big stay the **** out of the way of this notice.

[Stoo]

Originally Posted by MA_Moby

I spotted it in todays NOTAMs. A big stay the **** out of the way of this notice.

Ooh, got a linky?

A couple of fast jets were ignoring it earlier, they were having a right dogfight over the sea

[MA_Moby]

No linkage, but here's a cut n' paste. They got some of the numbers wrong. I counted three Jags.

FORMATION FLYPAST OF BUCKINGHAM PALACE. COMPRISING UP TO 5 ELEMENTS -
C-17, TRISTAR PLUS 2X TORN, E-3D PLUS 2X TORN, NIMROD AND VC10 PLUS
2X JAGUARS. ELEMENTS WILL BE IN 2NMS STREAM. AC WILL FLYPAST DATUM
POSN 5130N 00008W (BUCKINGHAM PALACE) AT 1500FT AMSL AT 1200.
ELEMENTS WILL FORM-UP AT SOUTHWOLD HOLD (IP 5220N 00140E) UP TO FL70.
ROUTE WAYPOINTS AND TIMES AS FOLLOWS - SOUTHWOLD HOLD (IP)1140HRS -
DESCENDING TO 1500FT AMSL AS REQD - ABM COLCHESTER(5151N 00044E)1151
- ABM FAIRLOP (5135N 00005E)1157 - PALACE DATUM 1200 - WORMWOOD
SCRUBS (5132N 00027W) - NORTHWOOD (5136.3N 00027W) 1203 - FORMATION
DISPERSAL EN ROUTE 1230. ALL AIRSPACE USERS ARE REQUESTED TO AVOID
THE ROUTE BY AT LEAST 2.5NMS EITHER SIDE OF TRACK. WEATHER
ALTERNATIVE ALL TIMES SLIP BY 4HRS. WHILST IN CONTROLLED AIRSPACE
THIS FORMATION IS AFFORDED CATEGORY E PRIORITY. FORMATION MAY NOT BE
ABLE TO OBEY THE RULES OF THE AIR.

[Stoo]

Neat Where'd you get them from then?

They missed off a couple of hawks from that list too..

[MA_Moby]

Know a man in the Air ministry all very hush hush strictly on a need to know basis

It's from the Aeronautical Information Services website. But the sites of pretty limited use if you're not familar with the terms to input to get the data - I'm trying to learn to use it at the moment.

Better for a quick reccie of what's going on in your region is this.

http://www.nats.co.uk/operational/pibs/index.shtml

It has the same data, just compiled into blocks for the Flight Information Regions. Useful for the eager beaver planespotter.

[Stoo]

Ahhh, I found that earlier used the paragliding assoc. login (also googled ) and ended up with a huuuuuuge list of eeeeverything

That second link looks useful.. do they have the info up of when the fighter jocks are going to be screaming about and waking me up?

Oh, that's another point, are those standard map co-ords?

[MA_Moby]

Originally Posted by Stoo

Oh, that's another point, are those standard map co-ords?

Degrees and minutes of longitude and latitude.

[Lowe]

Where's the piccies gone?

[Stoo]

arrrgh.. %$^$%^ing pipex dumped half my files due to the "enhanced webservices" they've installed.. aka they've started enforcing the quotas.. *mutters*

I'll have them back up asap..

[Stoo]

rightyho, they're back