A Tornado GR4 is scrambled (? or is that an Americanism?) - with sidewinder missiles - from RAF Lossiemouth. It would be good to know the callsign (again??) of the base and also how they would refer to the pilot on the radio and vice versa.
Scrambled is fine, sidewinders are not. As Earsling says they are an air to air weapon not air to ground.
Callsign would be Lossie XX for a singleton. (XX are numbers, eg Lossie 32 pronounced Lossie Three Two)
How he would refer to the other station he was talking to would depend on who it was. For real with this tasking he wouldn't actually be talking to anyone, certainly not broadcasting his run in on the radio, however if it's necessary then you might want to have him talking to MAGIC.
Also, since this might be a suicide mission, is it possible for the plane to fly with just one pilot and what rank would he be? I'm thinking some middle-rankish who'd be expendable (and sinmgle?) and wouldn't ask too many questions if he lived.
Is it possible to fly with one person on board? Hmm, I've felt like it's been that way for years! Anyway.... there may be some debate over whether it's possible, you could certainly have the Nav unstrap and get out after start but while this might give you an aircraft that physically gets airborne it wouldn't do the job you want for the story. The radar screen and weapon selection switches are in the back for a start.
Rank - probably Flt Lt although Sqn Ldr is not uncommon among the old and bold.
Also, does a Tornado have an onboard computer that can "talk" as I've found a clip on the internet -
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006426.html which shows an F-16 crash as a result of bird strike to an engine and it seems to have some kind of computer-synth voice talking to the pilot. (Or I'm mistaken and it's the tower over the radio...)
No voice in a tonka just the whoop whoop sound of the attention getters.
The Tornado flies towards Castlerigg. Again, what kind of conversation/ techno-talk would he use back-and-forth with the ATC as he approached the site? I know the Tornado's normal minium height limit is 250 ft. above ground level but how would it approach and how would I describe the pilot informing the ATC guys (basically, my readers) of his descent?
It's a moderately cloudy night with a full moon - dawn approaching as he nears Castlerigg. (I've read the Tornado is best suited for low-visibility flying but again, the story dictates this...) But as he approaches, his radar picks up a ghostly image in the air a few miles away from the stone circle. How would he describe this to the ATC people?
More likely there would be a conversation between the Nav who can see it and the pilot who can't. Could this fit in the storyline?
It in fact turns out to be a vast swirling flock of crows (that's why it has to be dawn) and the Tornado has a bird strike. (I read on BBConline that, sadly, something very similar happened recently with a Tornado from RAF Marham...) What kind of conversation might occur then in this life-and-death situation? Obviously, I'm the writer, so I'll try to wring some emotion out of it, but what information would be relayed back and forth before impact/ejection?
Generally lots of swearing, initiate a gentle climb and then sort out whatever emergency you are left with.
The pilot loses control and either ejects out or is ordered to divebomb Castlerigg kamikaze-style. Which I guess means I have to have him say "Oh !!!!!" at the very least!
Once you have lost control, flying it on to a precision target kamikaze-style is generally quite hard!!!