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AirNav RadarBox and RadarBox24.com => AirNav RadarBox and RadarBox24.com Discussion => Topic started by: lambertw on April 08, 2009, 06:19:45 PM
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Seen for first time today on rb at 18.50,PA474 43C392.
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Nice one :-)
Just showing in the list rather than on the map I presume?
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Yes list only.
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From list.
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If you do a manual database update using Database Explorer, and put the type in as LANC, there is a LANC.bmp silhouette in the RadarBox directory (I think that it's a "standard" silhouette).
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Ok thanks for that Allocator.
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Attached here in case you don't have it :-)
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Alternatively, here's mine - oooh - silhouette wars!
Rod
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What would be really nice would be for me to pick up the Lancaster ......... :-)
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His two wing men have been active also
LF363 Huricane Nice to know this is back in the air after rebuild 31/03/09
AB910 Spitfire LFVb 01/04/09 Maybe 1st proving flights after winter maintenance
Just for info mode-s I know for BBMF (Not in supplied Database) are
43C38F = ZA247 DC3/C47
43C390 = LF363 HURI
43C391 = PZ865 HURI
43C392 = PA474 LANC
43C394 = AB910 SPIT
43C395 = MK356 SPIT
43C397 = PM631 SPIT
I can't find a mode-S for P7350 SPIT (43C393)?
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That was reported in a radio magazine last year.
Any ideas as to what is assigned 43C396?
That one was missing from the list!!!
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Thanks all.I have sillhouette already in data folder but it did not show on screen, was it because there was no aircraft id showing on screen.
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43C396 Maybe PS915 SPIT is this aircraft still active? I've not seen it for a few years.
Edit PS915 still active but it does not answer the question about the mode-s
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/theaircraft/spitfireps915.cfm
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Thanks all.I have sillhouette already in data folder but it did not show on screen, was it because there was no aircraft id showing on screen.
Probably because the aircraft type was autopopulated as "..."?
Do a manual update using Database Explorer and change the type to LANC
The silhouette is displayed based on the aircraft type, not the Flight ID.
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Sorry, I did mean to say aircraft type.
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Glad to see PA474 still flying, as I worked on her in 1978!
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Glad to see PA474 still flying, as I worked on her in 1978!
I reckon that I took this in 1978 when I was at Coningsby during the Leuchars Bolthole :-)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3081/3133382548_02ec8419ec_o.jpg
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43C396 Maybe PS915 SPIT is this aircraft still active? I've not seen it for a few years.
Edit PS915 still active but it does not answer the question about the mode-s
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/theaircraft/spitfireps915.cfm
43C398 Showed up on my box today at 13:00 with PS915 in the call sign
Cheers John
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Allocator
I went the other way with 43 and ended up at Kinloss
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Small world indeed!
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Indeed it is!
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Not brilliant shots - and a bit off topic, but a reminder of times gone by :-)
(http://ruyton.smugmug.com/photos/538409605_tnDqE-M.jpg)
(http://ruyton.smugmug.com/photos/538410491_a6DVf-M.jpg)
(http://ruyton.smugmug.com/photos/538411653_KisGT-M.jpg)
(http://ruyton.smugmug.com/photos/538409260_a7VGq-M-1.jpg)
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Is that a brace of F-5s lurking in the background ?
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Oh yes, the Aggressors came up from Alconbury to play with the F4's
(http://ruyton.smugmug.com/photos/538409341_UKzLg-M.jpg)
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Certainly is Dave
Allocator, can you remember when those photos were taken?
How long were you there?
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I was there from late 1977 to early 1980. I'd guess that I took these in 1978 or 1979.
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Just before me.
I was there from Mid 1979 (well arrived one day, and moved to Kinloss the next day) and left in 1983. Wonderful place and had a brilliant time on both 111 and 43
As you say its a very small world.
Great photos though, brings back many happy memories
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I spent a week in 1967 hanging over the fence while on holiday at St Andrews :-)
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tomb men everywhere agh agh.
you went to the wrong camp macl should have come to lossie much more fun spent several happy years on buccs there.good weather and great golf o yes and the whiskey trail
cheers paul
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Stayed at Lossie during my time there, but worked from Kinloss
Only problem with Lossie was the food, it was awful, something about the cooks selling it on!!
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you had time for food?the bars are open
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Not after a night shift trying to get F4's serviceable for the morning. Even Scotland didn't have 24 hours opening in those days! :-(
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can sypathise there the bucc was a right ####### sometimes my bro spent time on 43 and has a few tales to tell but cant be any worse than the shack spent 18mths on 8 sqn boy was that fun
cheers paul
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When I arrived at Leuchars, there was a story going around about a Buccaneer that couldn't get it's gear down, landing at Leuchars wheels up after burning down to minimum fuel. The pilot did an excellent job but the aircraft was damaged significantly during the recovery from the runway. No idea when this happened, but it was pre November 1977. Not entirely sure why it landed at Leuchars, although I seem to remember that as an MDA, we were listed as being able to lay a foam blanket for just such an emergency.
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i read about that when i arrived on 12 at lossie around the time your talking the buccs where honington based or over in "G"
your right about it being a mda lossietook over the scottish role in the 80s the next one down was newcastle that had the title of master european diversion airfield dad was the fire chief there and can tell a tale or two from there and his time in the raf