Swiss Air Force 'Extremely Looking Forward' To Exercise At Lossiemouth

Exercise Scotnight will take place over four weeks in Scotland (Picture: US Air Force).

The Swiss Air Force are to be part of a month-long exercise at RAF Lossiemouth.

Exercise Scotnight 2018 sees the return of around 110 personnel along with 10 FA-18 fast jets to RAF Lossiemouth for the second year.

The detachment will once again be led by Lieutenant Colonel Aldo Wicki, who said: “We are limited in Switzerland when doing night flying because of our very crowded airspace since we are a very small country and our training sectors are very limited in dimensions.

"Then we have some limitations in winter time; we are not allowed to do night flying and not allowed to do supersonic flying because of the risk of avalanches, an important factor in our country, so again this reduces the dimensions of our exercises. 

“We are all extremely looking forward to being guests of RAF Lossiemouth during the next four weeks.

"It will be another fantastic opportunity to train our skills on night missions and work alongside the Royal Air Force.”

Exercise Scotnight will run from 12 November to 7 December with the FA-18s flying mostly in the afternoon and evening to allow for night flying training to take place.

Flying training will be completed by 11pm each day.