View Full Version : Low flying over Glenrothes today
Anybody know what the 2 aircraft were that buzzed Glenrothes town centre around 1430hrs today? Never seen my colleagues react so quickly to anything in my entire career, it would have been a classic YouTube video... Thanks to the crews for making my Tuesday exciting :-)
If it was 1415 approx, it was 4 GAF Tornado ECRs, apologies for the noise :E
You made my day! Thank you, it was ace :-) can you do it again soon please ? I loved the noise, I lead a dull surveyors life by day...
obnoxio f*ckwit
9th Oct 2012, 21:52
Plenty over Aberdeenshire today as well. To the crew of the Herc (I think, I only heard it but it sounded like one) heading east at low level near Alford at about 1300, thanks for scaring off the roebuck I'd been stalking for the last 20 minutes, and the only one I saw all day!
You are forgiven. Do it again!
Talking of Hercs.
I was in the middle of a very large state in Australia, hunting ducks.
I had seen some ducks land and thought they were going to start
flying around for the evening flight so was just about to leave camp
and walk round the corner to my hide.
Just then, a Herc came over at about 50 feet above the tree tops
- ie it was bloody low.
Great sight but it buggered up any duck hunting !!!
A A Gruntpuddock
7th Nov 2012, 12:35
Driving south along the M90 south of Perth (Scotland) where the road is higher than the surrounding ground and two Hercs came flew across right to left.
Thought the lower one was going to hit the traffic!
Also came across this old slide. I missed the crossing point but these gnats must have been very low -
http://www.pprune.org/<a href="<a href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/73571158@N00/8163868197/" target=_blank>http://www.flickr.com/photos/73571158@N00/8163868197/"</a> title="Low Gnats by Aloysious A Gruntpuddock, on Flickr"><img src="<a href=http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8337/8163868197_a3ee21b135.jpg" target=_blank>http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8337/8163868197_a3ee21b135.jpg"</a> width="500" height="308" alt="Low Gnats"></a>http://www.flickr.com/photos/73571158@N00/8163868197/
Sorry, just can't get the image to post.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73571158@N00/8163868197/
Onceapilot
7th Nov 2012, 13:00
Maybe, 40yrs ago?
racedo
7th Nov 2012, 16:47
Talking of Hercs.
Remember in visitors car park at Ben Lawers and spotted a Herc coming up the valley, really hugging the ground and the exclamation of a Lady "OMG they are going to crash", course they didn't but remember the chatter in the car park died off as people waited to see what they were doing.
racedo
7th Nov 2012, 16:58
Talking of Hercs
On a drive up from Hereford I listening to radio and when looked on the right and it seemed I had 2 Herc flying close and P....... F........... Low. Figured I only had to worry if I could see the top of the aircraft....................
overstress
7th Nov 2012, 17:27
Gruntpuddock, I'll post your photo for you ;)
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8337/8163868197_a3ee21b135_z.jpg
Tinribs
7th Nov 2012, 17:43
I can't understand any of this, you people keep seeing low flying aircraft and I don't get a look, it's terrible and I want to complain.
Unless one of every type flies over my house in Seahouses tomorrow I am going to complain to my MP and demand a full refund of all my tax.
Why isnt there a bunch of lawyers ringing me up say they can get me compensation for the lack of the sound of freedom over my house?
Another thing, in my day anything above 200ft was considered dangerous why do they keep up there above 500. I haven't seen "trestle here" on the underside of an aircraft for weeks
Stay low fast safe and noisy boys and girls, it's odd how the wind gets in my eyes when you go by
What have we become? The source of jet noise now heard in the highlands is ze Germans!
oldmansquipper
7th Nov 2012, 22:48
What have we become? The source of jet noise now heard in the highlands is ze Germans!
As soon as I saw there were 4 of them, I knew they wouldn`t be ours...
What have we become? The source of jet noise now heard in the highlands is ze Germans!
As soon as I saw there were 4 of them, I knew they wouldn`t be ours...
There was a token British presence in the back of Dragon 3 ;)
racedo
8th Nov 2012, 16:19
What have we become? The source of jet noise now heard in the highlands is ze Germans!
70 years ago suggesting that in 2012 that this would be happening would have got you arrested as being a spy and a defeatist..............
Suggesting they would be landing and having a beer with members of the RAF and you would be spending lots of time in a jacket that wraps around you........
How times change.
Bob Viking
8th Nov 2012, 17:54
I was thinking the same thing yesterday when I realised I had the names of Argentinian, German and Hungarian pilots in my logbook that I had flown in various aircraft.
BV:)
India Four Two
9th Nov 2012, 05:29
Punch 1944
"Here's another complaint about low-flying from the local Archery Club."
Punch Cartoons by Acanthus | PUNCH (http://punch.photoshelter.com/image/I0000i2Qie19p.iw)
chevvron
9th Nov 2012, 08:18
Ah jet noise. All I get is a Wokka Wokka at 6.30 am today; my fault for living close to H3 I suppose. Luckily I had just got up for work, but the wife wasn't too impressed!