Originally Posted by
camelspyyder
Even sharing the airfield is too disruptive for all the other users.
When they were at Cranwell but training in R313 at Scampton, the pain for the all other airfield users was most counter-productive. No-one could start, taxi, take off etc. from the moment the Reds checked in for start until they'd cleared the circuit. Several times every day. It was a happy day when Scampton re-opened.
IIRC the MATZ was 'sterilised' and there were to be no ground movements from 15 mins before the Reds startup to 15 mins after their departure and vice versa for their return from R313.
They often did 2 sorties per day which meant that the other flypros were generally horlicksed. Not so much a problem for us on 55(R) with our 3 hr sorties, but it royally screwed 45(R).