Can I find out what flies low over my house each night?

[Bonefish Blues]

Just curious really - is there any way I can find out what it is and where it's going? I know it's a helicopter, it's clearly quite low, and it's always at the same time c11pm each night.

[Vieste]

Could be training to and from RAF Brize/Benson/Barford ?

[SVX]

There are always Pumas and Merlins out of Benson practising dust offs in the fields where I live, close to Bicester in Oxon.

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SVX said:

There are always Pumas and Merlins out of Benson practising dust offs in the fields where I live, close to Bicester in Oxon.

I'm in Stratton Audley, so may be what I hear - but always a single aircraft and always the same time?

[SVX]

Bonefish Blues said:

SVX said:

There are always Pumas and Merlins out of Benson practising dust offs in the fields where I live, close to Bicester in Oxon.

I'm in Stratton Audley, so may be what I hear - but always a single aircraft and always the same time?

Almost certainly - I'm in Marsh Gibbon. Merlins and Pumas in pairs, one often flying dark.

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SVX said:

Almost certainly - I'm in Marsh Gibbon. Merlins and Pumas in pairs, one often flying dark.

Aaah - local lore has it that it's Billy from Field Farm coming home from the pub in his!

[SVX]

Bonefish Blues said:

SVX said:

Almost certainly - I'm in Marsh Gibbon. Merlins and Pumas in pairs, one often flying dark.

Aaah - local lore has it that it's Billy from Field Farm coming home from the pub in his!

Well there are a couple of helos out our way - a wobbly Rotorway (or similar) and a Jet Ranger. At the risk of going massively O/T, do you frequent the Red Lion at all?

[Bonefish Blues]

Sometimes - but I'm not what you'd call a regular (Frank's still polite to me) - Deuchars is OK, but there are much nicer IPAs at home

[SVX]

PM if you'd like to meet up for a pint...

[mildmannered]

It could be...

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SVX said:

PM if you'd like to meet up for a pint...

[speedtwelve]

Agree with other posters that if you're in Oxfordshire you probably live on a night low-level NVG route and it's a Merlin or Puma from Benson.

I live between Benson and Odiham and have Chinnys etc come over low on NVGs at 2am all the time.

[Dirty Frank]

Get a radio scanner and listen in.

http://www.flightradar24.com/

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Thanks to the pilot who PM'd me last night and explained what was going on

[Dirty Frank]

Spill the beans then darling.

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Dirty Frank said:

Spill the beans then darling.

Other posters' views have been confirmed as correct. I live quite close to the airfield in Bicester, which is en route, it seems.

[Spoof]

I'm in Bainton, just t'other side of Bicester, we also get the odd C-130 come over very very low.

I often pass over at about 35,000ft if I'm on an EDI or INV back to LGW, but I try and keep the noise down.