I don't get any aircraft flying near me Lat 52.9055 Long-0.0886 I can pick up aircraft going to the top part of the wash, could this dead airspace be closed military airspace? I do know we have a RAF firing range near me and MOD control Eastern Radar near to my home.
I am within 5 min flying time for RAF Coningsby USAF Mildenhall RAF Waddington RAF Marham RAF Cranwell and USAF Lakenheath. I do pick up a lot of RAF jets and USAF on my RD box and hear them!!!
Michael
Hi Michael,
Yes indeed, you are close to Wainfleet and Holbeach Air Weapons ranges as well as the East Anglian Military Training area and a multiude of military air bases so you won't get much civil OTT where you are.
Tom
Quote from: puddy on June 10, 2009, 06:47:35 AM
I don't get any aircraft flying near me Lat 52.9055 Long-0.0886 I can pick up aircraft going to the top part of the wash, could this dead airspace be closed military airspace? I do know we have a RAF firing range near me and MOD control Eastern Radar near to my home.
I am within 5 min flying time for RAF Coningsby USAF Mildenhall RAF Waddington RAF Marham RAF Cranwell and USAF Lakenheath. I do pick up a lot of RAF jets and USAF on my RD box and hear them!!!
Michael
Puddy,
I am in sleaford and notice a similar dead airspace. I pick up luton, EMA and stanstead reasonably well but little over lincolnshire at low level (<FL100!). I do get the E/W airway over lincoln (nice to see the contrails out of the window as RB plots the aircraft). I find a scanner is useful to fill in the gaps (ie local military activity).
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Allan
i'm a little bit further north, and we get stuff for EGNJ and also EGCN other than that its all high level stuff.
It is quite a low level of activity area around here