Night flying next monday

[tomtytom]

Anyone flying next monday night as its bonfire night?
Will you be humming the 633 squadron theme as you dodge fireworks?

[thing]

I think if you're dodging fireworks you may be a mite low..:)

Good idea actually, quick check of the diary shows I'm available that evening.

[RTN11]

Indeed many of us will be flying Monday night, there will be the usual notams out about fireworks, but they really don't go very high at all, barely a few hundred feet, and they shouldn't be near the approach to an airfield.

A far more likely hazard is that many people will set off those Chinese lantern things, which do go quite high, and if there's lots of them could be dodging them for sure.

[Steve6443]

No, but at the weekend I flew along †he Moehne See and, when nearing the Dam, couldn't help humming the Dambusters March.... :O:O

[Sir George Cayley]

I once followed a Lufthansa flight into a regional UK airport on Guy Fawkes Night. Natürlich the crew asked what the fireworks for?

The Tower Controller's ability to distill history into a few words was exceptional. He said "They're celebrating a kind of religious festival"

SGC

[Gertrude the Wombat]

"They're celebrating a kind of religious festival"
I usually describe this to visiting Europeans as "celebrating the defeat of the Catholics".

[Steve6443]

I would prefer to describe it that they are celebrating the last person to enter the Houses of Parliament with an honest and selfless intent..... to blow the damned place sky high......