Heuberg, Germany - 11/07/2008

The Friday (and indeed final) morning of our Germany trip was spent back at Heuberg, this time in the location we now knew as 'Roskop' - a position on some ruins at the top of a hill in the middle of the range.

The day started with lovely conditions which remained for the whole morning and our first trade was provided by a pair of civillian owned Learjets - the first time we'd come across them during the week.

The next few slots were filled by the transports, with first a German Transall.

When the Polish AF C295 appeared we were rather indifferent about it, it having not ventured below about 500ft on Monday. What followed went some way towards changing our minds!! The pictures don't really do it justice...

A second German example followed, dumping possibly the greatest number of flares we'd seen all week.

As per earlier in the week, the fast jet contingents were, in the main, pretty unphotographable, though there were odd shining lights.

Once again the rotary contingent didn't disappoint, with not one, not two, but three of the Belgian A109s. Unfortunately they were quite distant but they worked quite nicely with the smoke trails from the flares.

Our last exercise action of the trip came courtesy of a pair of CH-53GSs from Laupheim. They looked just as good from this location as we'd envisaged on Monday.

There was to be no exercise flying in the afternoon, so we hit the road and headed back to Stuggart, thus concluding another rather splendid trip that offered lots of very unusal photo opportunities.