Night Patrol
The Heli's from Culdrose do coastal patrol. They fly the full length of the Cornish coastline a couple of times a day. Didn't know they bothered that late at night, but if it is a Merlin they are fully equipped for night flying and can probably see better in the dark with all their fancy pants night vision gizmos! They normally do Hayle / St Ives late afternoon. Alternatively they might be loading / offloading a ship off the coast, but unlikely at that regular and late time of day (and that coast).
EDIT: I believe Wednesday is still Night Flying day and 200ft is the hard deck for most ops.
17th Jun 2009 2:04 pm
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Get lots of military helicopters round us going into Lydd ranges, saw a chinook fly under pylon power cable once would not have thought it possible had I not seen it myself.MY17 D5 1st Edition Namib Orange
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17th Jun 2009 8:40 pm
NJF
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CG wrote:
If they keep to the right there should be no problem
When I was younger I worked next to a farm and the RAF were forever flying low over it. We assumed they were using the radio nav beacon that was nearby. Until the day the farmer painted his propane tank green. Within a week the RAF had visited him and asked him to paint it white again becasue the pilots used it as point of reference. Shattered my illusions of the RAF being high tech.Too much intellectual firepower can damage your common sense.
17th Jun 2009 9:11 pm
Disco3newbie
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Driving on the left works fine on the M1.....until you meet a Polish driver
Used to live in the Scottish Borders......was always impressed when a Hercules crept up the valley as you were driving along the road.......above it.
17th Jun 2009 9:31 pm
Mark Y
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I've been a passenger in fast jets and rotary and have watched the pilots navigate via the M5 to get to RAF St morgan, newquay.
It's one thing to use it as a point of reference (keep M5 1 mile to left or thereabouts) and another to follow it.....I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
18th Jun 2009 8:41 am
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When the American planes come in for the Fairford weekend, you can see them following the M4 then turning left at J15...from a car it appears that they are directly overhead. Perhaps some of the clouds have one way system signs painted on them?Dr. Ian Malcolm:
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I'm pretty sure that is standard approach for Fairford for all traffic from the west (so America, Cardiff, Bristol, Cork). I think the 10 mile outer marker beacon is somewhere around there, but I'd have to ask my brother in law to be certain. He works in the tower, there.
18th Jun 2009 10:44 am
ad15
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while your talking to him can you ask him if the flight control game on iphone is as realistic as it looks? one wife.......livid
18th Jun 2009 11:36 am
Hassle
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Get one of those laser pointer pens and when they fly over point it at them, they'll then stop or maybe just lock on
Could always get an airmap and find out where the airlanes are.........not sure military follow them tho
Not really. Most of Cornwall falls under Culdrose or St Mawgan local area radar so is VFR (Visual Flight Rules) which kinda means anything goes Air corridors start much higher up.
19th Jun 2009 11:24 pm
chicken george
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or just get one of these, we take great care never to aim it at the apache's that often fly over the farm
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would not have thought it possible had I not seen it myself.
