Accident report on the midair at Tenino

"S Green" wrote in message
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Nothing worse than getting reports that are no help and just increase your
anxiety level.

lying in the South Midlands near Oxford UK, I was about to call up RAF
Brize
Norton for the lowest level service, Flight Information. The controller
was
telling another pilot first to contact somewhere else as he was too busy
(the other pilot said that he was told by the other place to contact BN
because they were too busy) and that he only had secondary radar so and
traffic without a transponder was not on his screen.

As we had no transponder decided that I would not add to the work load but
it was very busy today as we all crammed in under class A airspace with a
base at FL45 dropping to 2500ft within 15 miles.

Mmm yes. Probably the busiest GA day here in the UK so far
this year. You were up too eh? I was formation training over in
Essex (flying from North Weald). The entire light aircraft
population of the South East seemed to be up. As I was flying
over there passing Elstree I heard a plane take off from there
that I used to fly at Cardiff.

So many cool things going on from North Weald. On Saturday I
saw two Gnats, a Hunter and the only flying (out of 11 made) JP1
go off in formation. On Sunday I saw them come back. Talked to
a couple of the pilots. The Aerostars (Yak formation team) were
up and about both days too. Various other JPs were flying around.

Also met the UK dealer for Decathlons and the UK dealer for
PZLs.

Nice weather!

Paul