War Planes - Birmingham.

[WM Bus]

Wander what the giant modern war planes flying over Birmingham during the past few weeks is about - during the coronavirus lockdown. I've seen them on about 10 separate occasions flying over Ward End, Birmingham today.
Never used to see them before, but now they seem to be constantly in the sky on a regular basis.

 

[TheGarner]

Wander what the giant modern war planes flying over Birmingham during the past few weeks is about - during the coronavirus lockdown. I've seen them on about 10 separate occasions flying over Ward End, Birmingham today.
Never used to see them before, but now they seem to be constantly in the sky on a regular basis.

Thanks to the empty skies these days over the UK - The RAF has been able to do a lot of training at various different airports across the UK.

 

[darloscott]

There was a C17 doing circuits at Birmingham and a few other airports today, all routine training, no doubt taking advantage of quieter airports to get around the country a bit. I wonder if there's a background of revenue being spread equally from navigation and ATC fees to airports across the country.

 

[yorkie]

I've heard a lot more military planes in York recently; I'd guess taking off from RAF Leeming?

 

[thejuggler]

We have had the same over Leeds. Brize Norton based A400m using other airports for training. To be fair it happens all year round.

 

[Silverlinky]

I've heard of RAF planes doing touch-and-goes at Luton, Birmingham and Manchester....all in the name of training.

 

[221129]

I've heard of RAF planes doing touch-and-goes at Luton, Birmingham and Manchester....all in the name of training.

Pretty much every regional commercial airport in the country has had various aircraft in the past few weeks.

 

[RichT54]

On one occasion in the early 80s when I was on temporary (civilian) detached duty at RAF Chivenor, it was announced at the morning briefing that a couple of fast jet pilots had somehow managed to get permission to do some touch-and-goes at Heathrow in the middle of the night. However, when they got there, they flew down the runway at great speed and at the end, stood their planes on their tails and pulled up into a vertical climb, wrecking the noise monitoring equipment in the process. The authorities were not best pleased.

 

[Ploughman]

There are only a few around at the moment
There is an OSPREY In the hereford area.

https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/ (click on the map then click U in tHe top right to get military traffic)

 

[Silverlinky]

There are only a few around at the moment
There is an OSPREY In the hereford area.

https://tar1090.adsbexchange.com/ (click on the map then click U in tHe top right to get military traffic)

Good tool that site...thanks for sharing!

 

[Mag_seven]

Wander what the giant modern war planes flying over Birmingham during the past few weeks is about - during the coronavirus lockdown. I've seen them on about 10 separate occasions flying over Ward End, Birmingham today.
Never used to see them before, but now they seem to be constantly in the sky on a regular basis.

They could be flying in PPE for the NHS from the likes of Turkey and China.

 

[221129]

They could be flying in PPE for the NHS from the likes of Turkey and China.

Except they're not.

 

[Ploughman]

Except they're not.

3 planes went to Instanbul last week when ever it was, tracked on the site I mentioned above.
Whether they brought the right stuff back is another matter.

 

[221129]

3 planes went to Instanbul last week when ever it was, tracked on the site I mentioned above.
Whether they brought the right stuff back is another matter.

Which is completely separate to the training flights being operated around UK Airports.

 

[BananaRepublic]

They could be flying in PPE for the NHS from the likes of Turkey and China.

That’s being done on civilian passenger airliners and freight planes.
Dozens those of flights have been taking place since late March.

The RAF training flights at civilian airports are much higher and more widespread than normal.
I wonder if there’s any element of familiarisation taking place, in case a full national emergency occurs?

 

[Ploughman]

Familiarisation for there next career move.

 

[Silverlinky]

Familiarisation for there next career move.

Sort of......!!

BA pilots could work for the RAF

Pilots' union BALPA is in talks with the air force to send pilots into RAF roles. They have discussed secondments between 18 to 48 months but it depends on BA's cooperation.

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