Military airspace?

[puddy]

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

[viking9]

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

[AllanK]

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

[malc41]

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