Frisian Flag 2019 off-topic

[Rabbit]

Last attempt and then I will give up. We can expect 10x F-16. 8x for flying within FF and 2 spares for FF. Are you really not reading any other source than Scramble? Please check your pix of all previous years and you will see that not all of the aircraft flown in the morning are flying in the afternoon, but the number of aircraft is the same. So in the afternoon are flying the morning mission spares.

Gast, we snappen je wel. Denk om je bloeddruk. :’)

[pollypeter]

Marco: do you like your hobby? Why so frustrated reaction? #doeslief

[Stratofreighter]

Please keep it nice and clean on this forum guy's.

Thank you, and a happy spotting,
Ewald

Seconded/agree...

It is indeed not of much use to "add fuel to the fire" / "olie op het vuur gooien".

To those to whom it may concern: do not fan the flames any more.

Back to topic please, thank you.

[mainsail2011]

Marco ... waarom zn ophef over een paar F16's
Ben je zenuwachtig wat er komen gaat jonge??

Mijn ervaring is dat ze vaker spare kisten mee vliegen en uiteindelijk met minder aankomen dan dat ze vertrokken.. maar goed je zal wel nieuw zijn in deze spotterswereld.

[Stratofreighter]

...wat zei ik nou over "olie op het vuur gooien" ?

Back to topic please.

Voor eventuele belanghebbenden:
er is al rechts op het uitroep-icoontje geklikt, zijnde de "NSB-knop/rapporteerfunctie".

[Reinout Broersma]

Does anyone know if there are any other participants that will arrive this friday? Or have all the participants already arrived?

[Richard de Florennes]

what about the Frensh Mirage 2000Ds

[mainsail2011]

kijk dan is dat ook weer bevestigd

[AK01]

Tankers are up, so i guess rumours about cancellation for the rest of the week proved to be wrong, or have been solved one way or another.

[roberto]

Tankers are up, so i guess rumours about cancellation for the rest of the week proved to be wrong, or have been solved one way or another.

NOTAM for departure of the swiss was allready active last thursday, so it was no surprise to anyone on base that they would leave yesterday.

[Arjenp]

Tankers are up, so i guess rumours about cancellation for the rest of the week proved to be wrong, or have been solved one way or another.

NOTAM for departure of the swiss was allready active last thursday, so it was no surprise to anyone on base that they would leave yesterday.

Head of Ops of Leeuwarden also confirmed yesterday that the exercise continues without them.

[Bunzing]

Tankers are up, so i guess rumours about cancellation for the rest of the week proved to be wrong, or have been solved one way or another.

Can you guys please stop suggesting that Frisian Flag cannot go ahead without the Swiss Hornets? It is absolute nonsense to think that the entire exercise would have to be cancelled if less than 10% of the participating aircraft go home.

The fact that the Swiss had to leave early (for very legitimate reasons) was known well in advance by the FF organisers, and they acknowledged that it would not be a serious problem. There will be no replacing aircraft, so rumours about Rafales coming to Leeuwarden are also false.

Just be glad that the Hornets flew in 75% of the FF missions anyway. They will not be able to participate in any other major international exercise this year, so seeing them fly in FF was a bonus already. They will not be taking part in the NATO Tiger Meet at Mont-de-Marsan either.

The Swiss are very enthusiastic about their participation in the exercise, so we might see them return to Frisian Flag somewhere in the future.

[AK01]

Was hoping my post would be the final one to convince all the non believers, last word from me on this subject..