Marham GR4 Guys

[Canadian Break]

Any of the Marham GR4 guys on Prune. I was in my garden yesterday mid - afternoon (9 May) when someone came across the roof of my house - heading about 090 and 200 (ish) feet, pulled to about 40 degrees nose up , plugged in the burners and did a nice twinkle roll on the way up! Bloody fantastic; feel free to do it again, preferably on Friday mornings, because I work in Holland Mon-Thurs. 55°27'9"N 1°38'30"W or thereabouts. U shaped collection of 3 barns to the eats of 4 other houses!
CB sends

[pasta]

Apologies for the off-topic post: Is it wise to post the coordinates and description of your house, and the days you won't be there, on a public forum?

[Canadian Break]

Pasta - its out in the countryside and we get jets all of the time (not as many as we used to). I did consider the point before posting but it is the sound of freedom, after all!

CB

[Nige321]

Originally Posted by Canadian Break

Pasta - its out in the countryside and we get jets all of the time (not as many as we used to). I did consider the point before posting but it is the sound of freedom, after all!

CB

I think the point Pasta is trying to make is that you've just advertised to the light-fingered fraternity on the internet that your house may be unoccupied four days a week...
Then agin, do the light-fingered fraternity read Pprune...

[NutLoose]

Family might be at home though. I thought the scroats spend all their time on google earth looking for buildings with lead or copper roofs.

[skua]

Flew over Marham yesterday, and it was, as usual, depressingly quiet. But then I had the joy of 2 Tonkas fly underneath me on the Lincolnshire coast, who must have been recovering to Marham from the North Sea playground. ( I was talking to Waddo at the time).

[Buster15]

Lucky thing. Nothing quite like the sight and sound of this iconic jet. Not long now until it will be just a memory at least in the UK.
I can still remember being at TTTE Cottesmore in early1980 when the first Tornado arrived. It has had a truly fantastic service life and everyone who has been involved in the programme can feel extremely proud in what has been achieved.

[langleybaston]

Originally Posted by NutLoose

Family might be at home though. I thought the scroats spend all their time on google earth looking for buildings with lead or copper roofs.

Off topic , but surely the abbreviation for scrotum is scrote?

I have a wrinkled old retainer named Scrote.

[Canadian Break]

Originally Posted by Nige321

I think the point Pasta is trying to make is that you've just advertised to the light-fingered fraternity on the internet that your house may be unoccupied four days a week...
Then agin, do the light-fingered fraternity read Pprune...

Measures are in place Nige321 should the odd scroat wish to try his (I would be PC and say his or her, but that just wouldn't work would it?) luck. These may, or may not, include Claymores!
CB sends

[Easy Street]

As you are not in an operational low flying area it must have been above 250 feet. The steep climb and use of reheat suggests you witnessed a practice low level abort, which being a safety-critical manoeuvre would justify the (normally-prohibited for noise abatement) use of reheat at low altitude. And I doubt it was a twinkle roll you saw, more like a wing over to arrest height gain once above safety altitude.

Wouldn’t want anyone getting into trouble.

[Canadian Break]

Originally Posted by Easy Street

As you are not in an operational low flying area it must have been above 250 feet. The steep climb and use of reheat suggests you witnessed a practice low level abort, which being a safety-critical manoeuvre would justify the (normally-prohibited for noise abatement) use of reheat at low altitude. And I doubt it was a twinkle roll you saw, more like a wing over to arrest height gain once above safety altitude.

Wouldn’t want anyone getting into trouble.

Nice Try Easy Street, and hopefully tongue firmly in cheek - clearly no-one was breaking any limits and perhaps the roll was simply checking full and free movement?

[Easy Street]

Originally Posted by Canadian Break

Nice Try Easy Street, and hopefully tongue firmly in cheek - clearly no-one was breaking any limits and perhaps the roll was simply checking full and free movement?

Tongue only partly in cheek I'm afraid... your post was undoubtedly well-intentioned, but if read in a certain way could easily describe an example of indisciplined flying. As there is less than a year of GR4 flying left, I should think the chain of command is poised to come down like a ton of bricks on any "last trip" type shenanigans. I would be, anyway! So it is probably not a great idea to create an impression that you've seen some and you want to see some more. "200 feet", "reheat" and especially "twinkle roll" are words guaranteed to draw the wrong kind of attention.

PS full and free movement is checked on the ground. It tends to cause overstress or departure from controlled flight if tried in the air; there's no such thing as carefree handling in a GR4

[glad rag]

What a load of spils!

[Easy Street]

Perhaps you'd care to explain the purpose of the rapid rolling and SPILS 'on' AoA limits then, glad rag?

[chevvron]

First 4 F35Bs due to be delivered to Marham on 5 June.

[mopardave]

Originally Posted by Canadian Break

Measures are in place Nige321 should the odd scroat wish to try his (I would be PC and say his or her, but that just wouldn't work would it?) luck. These may, or may not, include Claymores!
CB sends

I was once severely told off by a PCSO for referring to a gang of "high spirited" young men who'd just hurled bricks and other assorted "ordnance" at us as "Scrotes".....apparently I was the one who was out of order! Just saying!

[glad rag]

Originally Posted by Easy Street

Perhaps you'd care to explain the purpose of the rapid rolling and SPILS 'on' AoA limits then, glad rag?

Sorry, my bad, I missed the smiley.