Originally Posted by
gr4techie
To answer the original question. I've experienced similar at a Lossiemouth/ Kinloss when going away on det. The Tristar or VC10 couldn't land there as we didn't have the right amount / size of fire engines that's legally required for big passenger aircraft. So instead of the air transport coming to us, we had the long long drive down to Brize instead.
Yes, but! I have operated the TriStar into Lossie as well.
You are correct about the crash cat etc issues though. Sometimes it was thought worthwhile to upgrade the local capability for specific moves. However, it was desperately disappointing to see how poor the military could be at getting these things sorted!
OAP