LOW LEVEL HERC SCOTLAND
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LOW LEVEL HERC SCOTLAND
15.50 today RAF Hercules at treetop level straight up the Holy Loch at decent speed and into the hinterland flying between the hills. Wonder what that was about.
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Sounds suspiciously like a C-130 on a low-level Navex 
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MPN11 grabs Mess Webley and heads for the car park, to do the decent thing 
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Two flew slowly west over Falls of Bruar at about 14:00, followed by another at 16:15. At least one of the first pair, and the third one, had the tail gate open or opening, and I spotted a refueling probe on one of the first two. That doesn't mean the others didn't have them, just that I didn't notice them.
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Cats Five, if the "tailgate" (ramp & door) were open they would not (should not) have been above 150 Knots IAS, which is the limiting speed for Ramp Open on the C130. They were likely going to conduct an airdrop exercise, or at least simulate one.
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<ssshhh> SF insertion?
MPN11 might take two or three Rounds of Ammo....just in case!
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Royalistflyer. If I had $1 for every hour spent on low level navexes in C130's, or Tacex's more correctly, including night ops I would be able to add a day or two to my next trip on a cruise ship.
Did they in the past?
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SASless........Did they in the past?
Assuming this is not a wah.......the K had a crew of 5 including a nav and a flight eng. The J C4/C5 has a crew of 3, two pilots and a loadie
Assuming this is not a wah.......the K had a crew of 5 including a nav and a flight eng. The J C4/C5 has a crew of 3, two pilots and a loadie