After much worrying in the hotel the previous evening, decided on P&V East, even though the wind was clearly going to make it 09, we thought that at least the interesting stuff (Mirage F.1s, Tornado ECRs, etc.) were up at the east end, so would still have to taxy past.
FIrst worry on arrival was the fact there were a load of green cones across the taxiway - something that rather confused the leader vehicles when they turned up and ended up removing them, many thanks to the driver of Leader 6 for knocking them over after he'd spent 20 minutes stacking them all up nicely, allowing us to take shots with them out of the way, much appreciated!
Windsock still pointed to 09, still worried we'd made the wrong decision until the scanner picked up Brize Radar; "Cotam2028, Fairford runway 27, expect vectors for the ILS"
Anyway, 27 it was all day, so on with the photos!
And after that it was time to head back up to Manchester - via Kemble of course!
C&C appreciated
Chris