Couple of Apaches over Southampton just now

[Spare tyre]

Think they weee apaches, not sure though

Pretty low and very menacing pair

Any ideas?

[Tony1963]

Any ideas about what?

[Spare tyre]

Any ideas what they are upto etc

[Tony1963]

We’re not at war, so some sort of training. Nothing more.
Even ‘ferry’ flights are treated as training.

[normalbloke]

They left from somewhere near HMS Sultan on the Gosport peninsular, I was watching them from my window.

[Spare tyre]

Cheers

I’m a bit hard of hearing so don’t usually notice this stuff, looked out the window and they were very low and scary looking.

Impressive to see

[ecsrobin]

Numerous sites in Southampton to land for training sorties. A couple flew into fleetlands last week, you have the HLS at Southampton general which they’ve used before and matchwood has 2 sites that are regularly used along with approaches at Southampton airport.

As Tony said, nearly all flights you see from military aircraft are likely training sorties.

[PaulV]

Makes a change for them not to be over us in the wilds south west of Newbury.

Very regular visitors day and night