Lossie Runway
 

During a holiday caravan break in Lossiemouth last week we where disapointed to find that the main runway at RAF Lossiemouth (05/23) was not being used due to planned maintenance. Can anyone please advise as to when the main runway will become active again.
Many Thanks.

According to Notams it will reopen 6th September allegedly

Do you normally take caravan holidays on an active runway (ATC caravans not withstanding)? How odd.

Consider yourself lucky. If they had been on 05 you might have had a Typhoon for company.(See II (AC) Typhoon Off Roading thread)

You could always visit Fort George instead....cracking military museum and you can watch the dolphins in the Moray Firth from the walls.

I got some good photos Tuesday & Wednesday this week from the short runways in use! In between the rain showers of course.
I liked the four typhoons that did the running refuels yesterday, (Wednesday) got a few photos of that.

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Back in the Day
I remember departing on the short runway in a Devon bound for RAF Turnhouse. I also remember a Luftwaffe Nord Noratlas using the shorty.:ok:

By shorty I presume you mean the (now disused) real short runway 01/19 of some 3000ft. We were using that on 8 Sqn for getting Shacks in and out whilst they resurfaced the main runways shortly after the change from HMS Fulmar to RAF Lossiemouth in 72/73. Now they WERE fun approaches and departures!

Many thanks for the info PICKS135

Anyone remember the Moray Sea School? Went there in the mid '60's for a month of OB prior to starting flying training.
Wish I was half as fit now as I was when I left there! Cold shower every morning after a 1 mile 'wake up' run. In October/ November! Bloody freezing. Runs up and down sand dunes😖.
Dare I say - Good Fun ( after it was over.......):ok:

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When you say "Running refuels": Is that engine running refuels and if so is this a new FJ idea? I thought helicopters were the only running refuels that the RAF did routinely?

Arfur now there is a memory kindled. I was on Moray Sea School Course 112, Mid Aug-Mid Sep 1961. I had knocked off Lower VIth a fortnight early for my Flying Scholarship at Sywell (on my way shortly for the LAA Rally there), had a week at home and set off to Scotland. Returned to school a fortnight into the term and felt about 3 years older than everyone else! Our course was affected by the tag end of a hurricane hat hit the west coast of Scotland so abut 2 days of our course was spent helping clear up the damage. Loved sailing the cutters and "Spewey Louis", not so much the X-country on the beach and through the forest, and the bone-shaker bikes we rode to the Cairngorms and back! I was so fit that on return after the usual Wednesday X-Country at school I nearly got selected for the school team. Fortunately an engagement with the school pipe band took priority! Happy memories - long time ago now. I recall the staff as a pretty odd bunch, led by a retired Guards major.

Hotpit refuelling - gassing the jets up with one engine still running. Done every day pretty much on the Tornado force and has been for a long time.