I'M sure that Mr Stewart is not having a good time with low flying over his house (Review, week ending August 13), but what does he suggest as a solution?

The pilots and crews of the RAF have to do their training somewhere as we've been committed by our various Governments to being in two wars at the same time and without low flying training the crews would be effectively committing suicide over Afghanistan and Libya. This has been an issue for many years, but with a country as densely populated as the UK it's almost impossible for low flying to be over low populated areas, there just aren't any.

If the MoD take no notice of complaints a more sensible approach may have been to contact the Station Commander at RAF Lyneham, where the Hercules were based, but as they've just moved to RAF Brize Norton it may be better to contact that station instead.

On a factual note, if the Hercules had cleared his roof by only 20 ft Mr. Stewart would no longer have a roof! I believe the current low flying altitude limit is 250 ft, but that may have changed recently of course.

I must claim a vested interest as my father was in the RAF for many years and my youngest daughter is still serving as a member of that Force.

– Kit Spack­man, Stanford Rd, Lydney.