LOW LEVEL HERC SCOTLAND
 

15.50 today RAF Hercules at treetop level straight up the Holy Loch at decent speed and into the hinterland flying between the hills. Wonder what that was about.

Sounds suspiciously like a C-130 on a low-level Navex ;)

Careful MPN, you've said too much already....

Remember seeing one flying up Glencoe, clearly following the A82, and a few hundred feet below us as we walked up one of the hills there.

"Run, sheep, run!" :p

"Don't tell them your name Pike" ;)

MPN11 grabs Mess Webley and heads for the car park, to do the decent thing :)

Two flew slowly west over Falls of Bruar at about 14:00, followed by another at 16:15. At least one of the first pair, and the third one, had the tail gate open or opening, and I spotted a refueling probe on one of the first two. That doesn't mean the others didn't have them, just that I didn't notice them.

The two Hercs based at Prestwick all week for the regular detachment for low level training

Cats Five, if the "tailgate" (ramp & door) were open they would not (should not) have been above 150 Knots IAS, which is the limiting speed for Ramp Open on the C130. They were likely going to conduct an airdrop exercise, or at least simulate one.

I doubt they were above 150 kts, they were definitely low & slow. As the second one of the pair passed over I could see a light inside shining out the

I've done my fair share of navexes but I was not aware that truckies did low level navexes.

<ssshhh> SF insertion?

MPN11 might take two or three Rounds of Ammo....just in case!

Royalistflyer. If I had $1 for every hour spent on low level navexes in C130's, or Tacex's more correctly, including night ops I would be able to add a day or two to my next trip on a cruise ship.

:) Put it down to narrow focus/ignorance/may have known once something like that. Couple of students became truckies I recall

East Anglia is far more challenging for low-level navex/tracex than the Highlands...

In Scotland? Wouldn't it be easier and more discreet to use a hire car?

Did they in the past?

SASless........Did they in the past?

Assuming this is not a wah.......the K had a crew of 5 including a nav and a flight eng. The J C4/C5 has a crew of 3, two pilots and a loadie