Para Drop Zones
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Para Drop Zones
Whilst flying south today around the Humber, I heard an ATSU "warn" a para-dropper of fast jet traffic southbound heading for the DZ. Sure enough he wen straight through after the canopies were on the way down. We actually observed this but were too high to determine type of a/c, could be a hawk or a harrier. My question is how often does this sort of thing occur and what, if any, follow up action is there? No-one is perfect and follow up action would perhaps be better construed as educational rather than anything else, but is there any follow up action and who would have to initiate?
Joined: Apr 2000
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From: 30 West
That will be Hibaldstow. Problem is there is Donna Nook south east, Wash ranges further south, so the temptation is to find a corridor between HUY and Finningley. I have flown at Hib, also many years for the owner and we have had lots of problems with fast jets. Usually a word to the station sorts it out but it is a big problem.
