GIRTY nightstop Lossiemouth Monday

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Spitfires are rare flying around this part of Scotland so I was surprised checking the on line route of GIRTY for Monday that a night stop is planned at RAF Lossiemouth. In todays interview on Radio 2 MR Jones the pilot informed listeners that they are planning low level 2,000 feet agl for overland segments to allow people to see the aircraft. His escort carrying the chilled beers,sausage rolls and sports massage therapist will be a Pilatus single engine turbo prop.

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Great epic flight in the making

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The silver Spitfire is airborne currently near north Berwick and heading for Lossiemouth...https://www.silverspitfire.com/expedition/flight-tracker/
He might be inview as he passes over you if the routes nearby, we currently have thunderstorms active around aviemore so I suspect he may follow the NE coast and avoid the high ground. He did a fly by over Newcastle airport.

Stopped at Newcastle for weather. Now on way to Lossie, shortly crossing Firth of Forth.

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A rare Spitfire sighting since July 2018 around the Chichester west Sussex (i.e. Goodwood area) this afternoon. Four Merlins sounding very good! Aside from G-IRTY does anyone the i.d.'s of the other three - I assume it included Boultbee's SM520 but the other two? Any offers, please & thank you?

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it was charlie from ARCo / aerial collective (pv202) with the stripes and red spinner and elizabeth from aero legends (nh431)

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The single-seater RR232 also performed an exceptional solo display an hour or so before G-IRTY took off and The Shark P51 did a circuit-and-bump before landing.

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Flight data is all messed up. Apparently it returned to Lossie today, but the tracking feed showed it was flying 113mph@600ft over the water when the feed cut off. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Showing the Pilatus landed in Iceland about an hour ago.

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Surely they could have invested in some 'custom' flight tracking system to follow the progress rather than relying on the likes of FR24 or ADS-Bexchange. I've mentioned elsewhere that when Op Bolero II happened they used their own flight tracking system which had G2A comms capability. The support aircraft crew were updating constantly as they flew over.

No current updates on their various social media feeds as to how it's going. Bearing in mind they are using 50% of the donations they are asking for from the public towards the trip you'd think they'd be a little more on the ball with keeping them informed...

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The Pilatus is about to land back in the UK, I assume Lossiemouth as the tracker doesn't list the destination.

Now apparently about a third of the way to Iceland...

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At least their FB feed is on the ball today, as is the flight tracker on FlightAware.

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Cool

Yes it is. Temp about 10c. At least it was sunny. When I visited cloud was at 100' and no flying!

Seem to have made Reykjavik ok.