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Now cancelled apparently

Apparently it's Tuesday,Wednesday and every other Friday from now on.

Now cancelled apparently.

There is the 2 Excel operation Coastguard and also the Police have a fixed wing base there now which I think operates 24 hours a day.

No particular reason Len, they regularly use a lot of civil airports for training(useful if they need to operate out of one or divert to one,keeps pilots current,etc) For example last Tuesday Teesside had a Grob,a Hawk,a Hunter and 3 Typhoons using it for training.As for being less busy LBA can...

ATIS is reporting the Airfield closed with no ATC services available and the article states it will only be '' operating in the vicinity'' which could mean something completely different to doing approaches on the ILS.

And let's not forget the venerable Super Cub G-NNAC from Beckwithshaw often to be heard out and about taking photo's

No just taking advantage of the lack of commercial traffic to survey sites that might be '' difficult"under normal conditions. For example there was one doing a survey pretty much over Heathrow the other day.

Just checked Flight Radar24 replay and it was a Boeing 747 of American company Kalitta Air routing Amsterdam to New York JFK.

I'm sure I remember that the training captain for Air UK(or possibly Air Anglia) at LBA around this time was called William Scarlett,so there really was a Captain Scarlett flying around the skies of Yorkshire!

Isn't that side where the ATC assistant sits with the controller on the left?

Yes they were inbound to the LGI and now inbound the airfield for a refuel at Multiflight

That Stakebake might be a bit tough :D

Yes that's exactly my experience too, quite muffled on the radar frequencies.

I think you can get a vegan steak bake now can't you?.

Following SR20 N781CD inbound from Leeds East Both going to Multiflight

And they did this afternoon and evening with the Jetstream back operating the flights!

About the only thing around then was the air ambulance G-YOAA which had just done a practice ILS approach and was returning to it's base at Nostell Priory

I've had problems with adverts too but the majority were for Australian companies and most seemed to be for ones selling ladies underwear,not sure what that says about me! :ROFLMAO:

Ahh... those were the day's, seems like only yesterday! Seen most before in various places but some are new to me.I guess picture 18 was taken during the Harrogate International Carpet Fair week in September going on the number of aircraft parked on stands 1 and 2,usually a good week for...