Based on the fresh soil around the fence around the base at the spotting site near the crash gate, this has been put up not a long time ago, probably even after mid summer this year.
The new fence has two properties not very much admired by airplane spotters:
* it is rather high (not exactly a method confirmed by science but reaches well over my head), with a V-shape barbed wire on top as well. That is about 3 meters you have to deal with. So bring along a ladder of some extra height.
* it is dense, rather thick green wire with narrow openings of about or less than 1 centimeter.
Photography of both the taxiways through the mesh (if you have no stepladder to avail) is doable with a little luck and effort. The only thing you have to do is leave out the lens hood. For takeoffs and circuits prior to landings remain halfway the small road to the crash gate. Please keep the road to the crashgate clear to enable any vehicle to pass in case of an emergency and everybody will be happy.
Admitted, I have not checked all of the fences around Lossie, but have a very strong idea all of the fences have been renewed, based on the pieces I have seen driving alongside RAF Lossiemouth.
Most of the time, you are almost or definitely about the only spotter around....... Happy spotting though, as both P-8's and several Typhoons take to the sky on a not regularly but surely rather frequent base.
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