Fairford NOTAM

[Brevet Cable]

[Big Eric]

First one of the year, unless I'm mistaken....

B) FROM: 20/01/03 15:30
C) TO: 20/01/03 17:30
E) FAIRFORD MIL ATZ ACTIVE, AD, RWY 09/27 OPEN

You're mistaken, this was yesterday's but nothing flew :-

U0009/20 - FAIRFORD MIL ATZ ACTIVE, AD, RWY 09/27 OPEN. 02 JAN 11:30 2020 UNTIL 02 JAN 17:45
2020. CREATED: 02 JAN 10:50 2020

[Brevet Cable]

I checked yesterday morning, in the afternoon ( around 16:00hrs ) and again late in the evening but no NOTAM was up on the NATS website.....was it taken down early?

[Big Eric]

It was removed at around 12.15 yesterday (possibly due to the crosswind), you're not being abusive to me - are you feeling OK?

[Brevet Cable]

I'm lulling you into a false sense of security....or saving it until the next time I'm bored, or something.

Given the various goings-on over the past few days, I was expecting it to be NOTAMed as open if only in case of possible diverts.....sod's law that the only previous one was in between the times I checked.

[Big Eric]

Quite a lot of F-15s were doing regular training flights from Lakenheath earlier today and their diversion airfield was Ramstein in case of the runway at Lakenheath being closed for any reason, not Fairford and not any RAF base.