Not a single flight over Scotland.

[Brandane]

Just an observation. Pre CV19, this would never have happened at 8.15 on a Sunday morning.

 

[biggs682]

It's a shame it can't stay this way really if you ask me

 

[gbb]

Generally speaking, the only aircraft we have seen for the last 2 months have been light aircraft and military, notably more military transports from the big stuff to Ospreys...oh, and an Apache type helicopter over Alconbury, you see them occasionally here. You do see the odd vapour trail so civilian stuff is up there, but precious little of it compared to pre covid times.

 

[Drago]

We see a moderate amount of military traffic here - I'm guessing were on a route they use. We also get Apaches popping up and I'm pretty sure they use cars for "target" practice as we drive along a local ridge between the two villages. That's actually fine by me, just so long ad they don't actually shoot!

But the clear skies and clear air is great. Hopefully it'll remain that way. The airlines are bleating, but that's just another industry founded on pollution and massive environmental damage which was itself long overdue a Darwinian adjustment.

 

[Brandane]

It's a shame it can't stay this way really if you ask me

I think/hope it will be very different if things ever return to "normal". There will surely be much less demand for air travel (and foreign travel in general), and the cost might well dictate that it might return to the 70's level when air travel was a rare and expensive event.

 

[biggs682]

I think/hope it will be very different if things ever return to "normal". There will surely be much less demand for air travel (and foreign travel in general), and the cost might well dictate that it might return to the 70's level when air travel was a rare and expensive event.

lets be honest a lot of the flights are un needed anyway and there is nothing wrong with holidaying in your home country .

 

[Bonefish Blues]

We're on a path into Luton (I think). It's noticeable that I notice the planes that are in the air, iyswim.

All well at BA, I see

 

[Bonefish Blues]

lets be honest a lot of the flights are un needed anyway and there is nothing wrong with holidaying in your home country .

Hard to bonefish in Brighton, though!

 

[AndyRM]

Wings Over Scotland has been shut down?!

 

[gavroche]

lets be honest a lot of the flights are un needed anyway and there is nothing wrong with holidaying in your home country .

Agreed but you need the good weather as well and the UK is not top of the list for that.

 

[PeteXXX]

No vapour trails over Poshshire at the moment. @biggs682 & @Drago & I would see almost the same bit of sky.

I'm on the approach wobble for the small aircraft into Sywell Aerodrome and there's hardly been a Diddy plane overhead for ages!

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Agreed but you need the good weather as well and the UK is not top of the list for that.

Don't drag the rest of the UK into this, North Walean

 

[welsh dragon]

Only 2 in Wales. And none anywhere near me. Yay. Then again we are not on flightpaths. We normally only get military aircraft flying around here.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

No vapour trails over Poshshire at the moment. @biggs682 & @Drago & I would see almost the same bit of sky.

I'm on the approach wobble for the small aircraft into Sywell Aerodrome and there's hardly been a Diddy plane overhead for ages!

Ken Dodd was indeed a sad loss.

 

[PeteXXX]

One inbound from Cologne, and a couple of local little'uns.
That's it over Poshshire!