Originally Posted by
treadigraph
My boarding school was more or less directly between Gatwick and Lasham and every so often lessons or an afternoon's spotting would be enlivened by a Dan-Air 707 or 727 transiting to/from maintenance at Lasham. And low! They were probably at 1500 or 2000' but it didn't seem like it.
What about the MK Airlines DC 8s? Farnborough used to position them at about 8nm final for 27 for (hopefully) an SRA.