I'm not dissing the capability of our favourite service, I was just saying how quiet it has become. I've been coming up here for near on 37 years now and never seen it so quiet. Last year we had a few hawks up the valley, and a couple of hercs at LL round and about.
As a young teen, I used to look forward to coming up here, seeing Jags, Harriers, Tornado, hawks, and some very low F-111's. Now i love coming up here for different reasons, but I can't help looking skyward for even the slightest suggestion of something flying past.
My only thing of interest to report was last November, when what i suspect to be an A400 flew over me at LL as i came through Tebay on the M6. I say suspect as all i saw were the nav lights
BV, i completely understand the abilities of these new airframes, and the lack of need to skim the hedges, it just doesn't make for the same spectacle
cheers.