Reds 4th Oct

[colt99]

Found this NOTAM for their return to Waddington

H7137/24: Formation flying will take place
Q) EGXX/QWVLW/IV/M/W/000/030/5526N00154W148
FORMATION TRANSIT BY MULTIPLE ACFT ROUTING:
574218N 0032021W RAF LOSSIEMOUTH(EGQS) 1430
573806N 0031003W NE OF MOSSTODLOCH 1432
570837N 0024404W NE OF LUMPHANAN 1437
564918N 0023103W E OF LAURENCEKIRK 1440
555929N 0023037W VCY OF DUNBAR 1449
553814N 0022123W SE OF BINGHAM 1452
552612N 0015103W N OF SHAWDON HILL 1456
550055N 0020349W S OF ERRINGTON HILL HEAD 1500
542754N 0014018W SE OF MELSONBY 1506
541608N 0010755W NW OF RIEVAULX 1510
535820N 0003503W N OF NORTH DALTON 1514
533323N 0002738W E OF BRIGG 1519
530958N 0003126W RAF WADDINGTON(EGXW) 1523

ACFT EXPECTED TO TRANSIT BTN 250FT AGL-2000FT AGL. TIMINGS, HGT
AND ROUTE ARE APRX AND SUBJ TO CHANGE. FOR INFO 01522 726707.
AR-2024-6704/AU1.

LOWER: Surface, UPPER: 3,000 Feet AMSL
FROM: 04 Oct 2024 14:30 GMT (15:30 BST) TO: 04 Oct 2024 15:23 GMT (16:23 BST)

[Thunder]

Saw them on FR24 heading North earlier, what was the reason for venturing up this way?

[AyrForce1]

Training/practice.
https://www.facebook.com/RAFLossiemouth ... x2yTJxguyl

[Thunder]

Seriously, they’ve flown more or less the length of the country to do a practice display because Waddington is hosting Cobra Warrior?? Couldn’t they have used Cranwell, Marham or Leeming, thought our forces/public services were facing massive cuts due to no money in the kitty.

[airphotog19]

Well no because they did a practice yesterday, it's good to train at different locations because they have different landmarks to use

[reaper493]

They did two practices at Waddington yesterday and have their final public display tomorrow at Duxford.

No idea why they've gone north!

[Thunder]

Well no because they did a practice yesterday, it's good to train at different locations because they have different landmarks to use

Don’t the bases I mention have different landmarks from Waddington? As Reaper says they did two practices at Waddington yesterday anyway but the Facebook release from Lossie clearly states that they currently can’t use Waddington due to Cobra Warrior which is clearly not the case. I could understand it if the display tomorrow was up in Scotland somewhere but certainly not when it’s down in Duxford.