Bournemouth Air Festival

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Has anyone done this by boat? I'm thinking of taking my new nautical toy down there in August but wondered if anyone here had done the same in previous years....

[steve_amv8]

I've set up off the pier for the Red Arrows show a couple of years ago although I believe there is now a larger exclusion zone in place. For 2008 the exclusion zone extended 200 metres out from the beach and 1km along the see front, between Bournemouth and Boscombe Piers.

It used to be chaotic when it was just the Reds - as the display finished, the boats would shoot of in all direction at great speed! A lot calmer now!

Great place to take photos from .....

Edited by steve_amv8 on Friday 29th May 10:26

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steve_amv8 said:

I've set up off the pier for the Red Arrows show a couple of years ago although I believe there is now a larger exclusion zone in place. For 2008 the exclusion zone extended 200 metres out from the beach and 1km along the see front, between Bournemouth and Boscombe Piers.

It used to be chaotic when it was just the Reds - as the display finished, the boats would shoot of in all direction at great speed! A lot calmer now!

Great place to take photos from .....

That's very useful information - thanks.

It's about 1.5 miles between those two piers - however 200 meters out from the beach is roughly at the end of the pier....

[steve_amv8]

NDA said:

steve_amv8 said:

I've set up off the pier for the Red Arrows show a couple of years ago although I believe there is now a larger exclusion zone in place. For 2008 the exclusion zone extended 200 metres out from the beach and 1km along the see front, between Bournemouth and Boscombe Piers.

It used to be chaotic when it was just the Reds - as the display finished, the boats would shoot of in all direction at great speed! A lot calmer now!

Great place to take photos from .....

however 200 meters out from the beach is roughly at the end of the pier....

Which is what seems odd to me - I was within that zone two years ago and I could have sworn they extended it!