Interesting that EK036’s routing after take off from rwy 25 today took it on a right turn towards the north east, not the usual left turn towards the south west out of Newcastle, wonder which way they go. I lost it about 40 miles out over the north sea, so not sure from there.

My tutor advised me to buy that book a few months ago so I did. Not read much of it, just bits and pieces to help on a topic called International Aviation Regulations.

Do you work in Aviation?

No, just always been fascinated by it since my dad bought me an airband radio when i was 10 (24 years ago…….. that makes me feel old!). I can remember standing on the roof at Newcastle (when you could!) and seeing a bunch of houses off to the north of the bottom of rwy 25 and thinking how great it’d be to live there, I now do, perfect. Would love to work in the industry tho…

Can anyone confirm this report? Still nothing on BMI website

Have a look at Air North – http://www.airnorth.demon.co.uk/. They have a pretty decent movements register, though i think you have to be a member to access it

Im a bit dissapointed at the expansion at NCL just the one route when there were stron rumours of 4 new routes at least.

Good news none the less for the other airports.

Newcastle – Aberdeen was also stated on their email shot this morning, though no mention of it on their website…

The Yupi 7100 is a fantastic scanner, especially for airband, so i can only guess that either it has a fault, or the stock antenna is no good. I’ve used mine with a simple standard gain multiband ‘rubber’ antenna whilst at airports, and a larger higher-gain version of the same elsewhere for years, and its been absolutely great. At the end of the runway as you were, though, i’d have expected everything to boom in even on the stock antenna, so something sounds wrong. Obvious but worth checking, were you in AM and on precisely the correct frequency (the 7100 doesnt have 8.33 spacing so you may need to drop it to 1khz spacing and track down the best actual frequency in use). Also check you didnt have the attenuator switched in. Good luck, keep us informed