Bournemouth Air Show - where is the exclusion zone?

[Steve Clayton]

Can't find anything on the web.

The airshow website has a picture of boats anchored off the pier but no detail on the site.

Have emailed the website and the group in Poole providing offshore marshalling (nothing on their site) but they both seem to be asleep.

So anyone here got any info??

 

[PurpleKate]

Hi Steve, Ive anchored off the past 2 years and the no anchor zone was clearly marked. The show is over the beach to the East of the main pier. The no anchor zone is right next to the beach and then all the boats are anchored just outside. By mid morning there was plenty of boats to follow and anchor next too. - look for the Royal Navy ships and trip boats out of Poole. You get a great view as the planes go overhead anyway so not sure its that critical to be too far in

 

[GrahamD]

The exclusion zone is bounded west and east by Bournemouth and Boscombe piers. It extends about a quarter to a third of a mile offshore, marked by buoys and policed by marshal boats. The axis of the display is parallel to the beach with the centre point about midway between the two piers.

 

[Seajet]

Let's hope they're not feeling as keen as at Brighton a fair few years ago, when a Red Arrows Hawk took the masthead light off a yacht...

 

[Goldie]

Let's hope they're not feeling as keen as at Brighton a fair few years ago, when a Red Arrows Hawk took the masthead light off a yacht...

When as as far as I can recall, the yacht was inside the exclusion zone and the impact damage proved that the pilot was above his minimum authorised height. Not that it matters but memory thinks it was a Westerly.

 

[Seajet]

Old or Bold

I somehow doubt even the Red Arrows Hawks ( which I'm very familiar with having worked & flown around them, my Father organised the original smoke pods ) have official clearance to fly at yacht masthead height !

Then again, years ago I was sailing off Dartmouth when the Regatta/ festival was on, and the Reds did their ' cloudburst ', then reformated over the sea near us; we saw two Hawk pilots obviously vying with each other as to who could go lower.

We had a Test Pilot, Jim Hawkins, who had a habit of flying low and got b*****d for being too low and blowing the water out of a puddle at the Farnborough Air Show.

Jim was later the project pilot on the single seat Hawk 200 fighter and did amazing displays - for 6 weeks until he buried it and himself in a field just outside Dunsfold.

 

[mlines]

Was once thrown around by a wake whilst crossing Windermere in a Mirror dinghy. Not unusual you might say except the wake was from a low flying Buccaneer.

 

[alahol2]

I somehow doubt even the Red Arrows Hawks ( which I'm very familiar with having worked & flown around them, my Father organised the original smoke pods ) have official clearance to fly at yacht masthead height !

1980... "A Saturday crowd witnessed a spectacular display of aeronautics when a Red Arrow's "Hawk" piloted by Sqn Ldr S. Johnson, clipped a yacht's mast and plunged into the sea between Brighton's two piers.

The incident left the pilot rather wet and shaken, and the Royal Air Force revising the minimum flight height above sea level from 35 to 100 ft. "

http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__6359.aspx

 

[Seajet]

It should be pointed out that he ejected, otherwise might have been a bit more than wet & shaken !

 

[Steve Clayton]

Got this from Bournemouth Admin:

The co-ordinates for the corners of the Exclusion zone will be as follows:

1. 50.42.8N 001.52.4W (End of Bournemouth Pier)

2. 50.42.47N 001.52.31W (SW Corner)

3. 50.42.72N 001.50.51W (SE Corner )

4. 50.43.05N 001.50.5W (End of Boscombe Pier)

 

[skodster]

Was once thrown around by a wake whilst crossing Windermere in a Mirror dinghy. Not unusual you might say except the wake was from a low flying Buccaneer.

The Buccaneer was a spectacular aeroplane, had awesomely smokey engines. They were kings of low level flight.

Enjoy...