D-Day 75 Portsmouth fly-past

[TwoHooter]

Does anyone know the official planned route of the D-Day 75 fly-past of 26 RAF aircraft converging on Southsea tomorrow, 5 June 2019? I mean the event which is scheduled for around 12:30 - 12:45, not the Red Arrows display at 16:15. The only info I can find is a vague reference to the formation flying 'around the Isle of Wight and up the Solent'. We are planning to watch from our boat and I'd like to know where we should position it. All the official stuff I have found consists of airspace restrictions - no routing information.

 

[creeks]

Can't help with the route but suggest you might read this before deciding where to watch from:

https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/qhm/po...019/1901-dday-75-national-commemorative-event

 

[TwoHooter]

Thanks.
We are sailing out of Cowes so will be nowhere near the exclusion zone - I'd already seen that - but like every other source I've looked at it the RN website says nothing about the flight path of the fly-past. Perhaps the formation will turn somewhere near Cowes and fly direct to Southsea to approach over the sea, but that's just a guess, there doesn't seem to be anything published.
If the weather's anything like today it could be a low level fly past!

 

[Nauti Fox]

Try....https://notaminfo.com/ukmap
Click to wednesday 5th then delete all criteria except "show navigation warnings"

I think the blanket area ban won't allow it to show much detail though, head of state restrictions applying as well.

 

[TwoHooter]

Thanks, I'm a private pilot so I did look at Notams but they certainly aren't showing a route for the fly-past. I'll just go with my assumption that the formation will turn in the Cowes area and fly towards Southsea from there.

 

[creeks]

This is presumably the best description of the route that you'll get:

"A large formation of military aircraft will form the D-Day 75th Flypast on 5 June 2019. The flypast will form up over the English Channel in the five Danger Areas designated EG D036 - EG D040 and over the Isle of Wight and route clockwise around the Isle and west to east along The Solent to overfly Southsea Common before dispersing to the north and east"

http://www.ead.eurocontrol.int/eadb...057-2019/EG_Circ_2019_M_057_en_2019-05-09.pdf

 

[TwoHooter]

Bingo! Thanks.

 

[TwoHooter]

Well that was a success. Slipped from the Folly visitor pontoon 11:15 and had a grandstand view of the fly-past, followed by a nice lunch back at the Folly. Thanks again for the help.

Remembering RAC (Lt. Col. Intelligence Corps, at SHAEF for D-Day, Mentioned in Despatches 1945), EAC (RAFP), VMC (Women's Land Army).

 

[rafiki_]

Well done Michael. Great to see you back on here.