E-3's in east mids

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16th Feb 2005, 18:05

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E-3's in east mids

I Live near East Mids airport, and every now and again I see an E-3 flying in to the airport. Just wondering why. Do they just shoot approaches or do they actually land?

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16th Feb 2005, 18:14

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Weather Div maybe......

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Do the CAA have an IR examiner there?

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it seems like they're mainly shooting approaches (i.e. not landing)

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Simple really, we don't own enough runways for 24 hour ops so we have to go civvy.

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