Classic British Flight Sim

Just out letting the dog have a pee, and an either Fyglobespan or Easyjet Airbus just flew down my street in Grangemouth at 075 degrees. I kept looking to see if he was going to turn onto the M9 'corridor' into Edinburgh, but by the heading he maintained for a good 5 minutes he was not doing that, but on a rather long way around to R27 at EDB. Puzzled why he was so low - can't have been more than 3000ft and possibly a little lower. Certainly I've never seen this particular happening before! Possibly down to snow in the clouds? (Aircraft was below cloudbase and visibility is very good right now).

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Just shows you!
Mind you, for many, many years I lived in Livingston, a stone's throw from EDI - (Gear down point).

As landing lights went on, the shone into my front window! Obviously the vast majority of flights were on the ILS and the headings never varied (for landing from the west) - yet thinking back, I saw more than a few A/C *much* lower than normal, and capturing the ILS for R06 from a heading of around 0 degrees, making tight low speed turns (with gear down) right over my place of work. In fact, they were usually lower than they would be on a 'normal' approach!

Of course, you never really remember the thousands of normal happenings, but the odd-balls do stick out. Last night's of course must have came from the south, but the oddest thing was it getting directed over into Fife before getting the R24 heading - normally everything (that I've seen) runs parallel to the airport and south of it, before turning onto RW heading over east Lothian with a left-hander.

:o LAnding Lights shinning through the curtians?????? yeh, that's a Big WOW :o


I HATE!! headlights coming into the house from cars......



but I think If headlights that bright were shinning
well I'd have thought the little green men had come
to get me..

well those sunzabitches try poking anything in my outie

it''ll be galactic war 1!!!
RTFM

Yip. I remember when I first got Digital TV (The now defunct on digital) my screen would go blank every time an A/C lined up with EDI - there must be some 'pulse' that happens just as they get within about 6 miles or so - and about a minute later over would go the lander!

And yes, straight through my curtains with the light.

Actually, you got used to it, but I remember one night, the streetlights were off, and I was walking toward the house along a road. A 757 was on the approach, and switched on his landing lights. You never normall notice when the streelights are on, but as they were off, before the landing lamps swung up into position, it was like two searchlights illumnating me as the plane was directly behind me!

It was only after it passed I realised, as the noise of it overhead did not register as it's so commonplace!

Later on, I moved 'up the hill' in Livingston, so then the planes were seen from the side going to land at R06. I could gauge how they were doing by the counting the number of sections of my window blind they dropped as the traversed the frame - normally three, sometimes six or seven if they were a little high :flying: