My wife heard fighter jets flying over Sheffield last night at about 9pm.
Anybody else see or hear them?

Its not the norm for them to fly over our area, so I was wondering what is was.

Originally posted by "mikey"

My wife heard fighter jets flying over Sheffield last night at about 9pm.
Anybody else see or hear them?

Its not the norm for them to fly over our area, so I was wondering what is was.

Which area do you live in?

I have heard some sort of aircraft this evening - it was not a helicopter which is normal over this end with the football matches.

Perhaps the military are making use of Sheffield Airport.

Moon Maiden

There was a fighter jet around Leeds Wednesday afternoon too

I noticed in the sky this morning loads of unsual criss-crossing jet trails.

i always see loads of jets flying low, they are usually "red arrow" style training jets

The RAF sometimes use the Peak District for practice flights.

Originally posted by "mikey"

My wife heard fighter jets flying over Sheffield last night at about 9pm.
Anybody else see or hear them?

Its not the norm for them to fly over our area, so I was wondering what is was.
Didn't see 'em, mikey. But certainly heard it (them), 'bout the same time as you did, I'm in Lowedges.

I fly out of Netherthorpe and often fly over Sheffield...there is a law stating that pilots should allow 1500ft clearence above the highest object/building agl........so they shouldn't have been too low. The jets could have been on military exercises. By the way THE RED ARROWS have been active recently...practicing their manouvers for their forthcoming displays.

Oh come on bootlegger - you don't seriously think that the military take the blindest bit of notice of the law do you? That's just window dressing.

The RAF have a great web page dedicated to low flying :

http://www.mod.uk/issues/lowflying/contents.htm

they can fly as low as 100 feet in a few places that they have, but tend to go above 250 normally. Some aircraft go as low as 50 feet ! Wouldnt want to be a sheep :o)

There is a low flying video here [bottom right of the 4 videos] :

http://www.raf.mod.uk/downloads/videos.html

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"The UK Low Flying System (UKLFS)

The UKLFS is designed to allow the efficient and effective management of military low flying while ensuring that the activity is spread as widely as practicable. It covers the whole of the open airspace of the UK and surrounding oversea areas as far as the boundary of the UK Flight Information Region, from surface to 2,000 ft above ground or sea level. Military fixed-wing aircraft (except Bulldogs and Fireflies) are defined as low flying when operating within the UKLFS at less than 2,000 ft minimum separation distance (msd). In the case of helicopters, Bulldogs and Fireflies, they are defined as low flying when operating at less than 500 ft msd. 250 ft is the normal lower limit for low flying by fixed-wing aircraft, although a very small amount of operational low flying training for fast jet and Hercules transport aircraft is permitted during the day at heights between 250 ft and 100 ft. Bulldog and Firefly aircraft may be authorised to fly down to 50 ft msd while helicopters can be permitted to fly as low as ground level. "