Heavily armed helicopters circling Surrey hills?

[anonymous-user]

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[trickywoo]

I regularly see ah64 around the m25 j6 area.

Chinooks rattle my letter box too.

[trickywoo]

A pair just flew over at some speed heading south east.

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

trickywoo said:

Chinooks rattle my letter box too.

That's quite the euphemism...

I'd hate to think what an Osprey rattles.

[sl0wlane]

Weird, we have had this too (south west)... and evening stranger... air drops (parachuted cargo) from small planes over fields not too far from us (how weird is that?!)

[Ranger 6]

M3 J3 - they came over us, heading home lower than usual.

[eltawater]

Last week there was a group of Army Air Corps Apache gunships running exercises across Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Suffolk and flying over at around 500ft. Got a lot of people very excited in the villages.

It wouldn't surprise me if they've moved down to you now.

[cml24]

Yep, two Apaches came over slowly about twenty minutes ago in Dorking.

We've had them, Chinooks and I think supa pumas (I don't know much about helicopters though!).

Local Facebook group says the fields a few miles away are rented out for training exercises, specifically at night. Believe the air ambulance, based in Redhill I think, also practices in the same location.

[eltawater]

Hunter1 is probably one of your local sightings judging by the flightpath

[Pilotguy]

This map track is showing Altitude, i.e. above sea level. The aircraft’s height above ground level isn’t shown,but I’d expect in a tactical exercise scenario they’d be down below 200ft AGL a lot of the time with transits between waypoints 200-500ft AGL.

[Ranger 6]

What’s that app?
22:35 a Chinook over us again

[HTP99]

A couple of what looked like Apaches went overhead on the 2nd June at 20:25, I'm Guildford.

[eltawater]

Ranger 6 said:

What’s that app?
22:35 a Chinook over us again

It's the website https://adsbexchange.com
Go to the map and click on the U in the top legend.

[Europa1]

anonymous said:

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I'm going to take a wild stab here: training?

[Siko]

Looks like training indeed, out of Wattisham, through the London Helilanes and out to the West, then south of the TMA and back to Wattisham. I’m guessing.....

[Tony1963]

I’m a mile from Wattisham, and work there. As well as the usual Apache movements two Wildcats are around here too.

[Tony1963]

anonymous said:

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Give us lots of examples, please.

[Tony1963]

Hardly lots.

Almost all their flying in the U.K. is training. Ok, after depth servicing there’ll be a few flight tests, and after major component replacement at regiment level there’ll be a little flight testing, but really, almost every Apache you see flying In the U.K. is training.

[Tony1963]

They don’t carry napalm

[tr7v8]

We've had these over Chatham on & off. Interesting they don't show on Flightradar24 or I couldn't see them anyway.