i know this was posted last year, but I can't seem to find it. Can anyone post some info for this years event? Thanks
120.3 was ACY tower channel, what you must have heard was the Air Boss referring a departing act to the tower for approach.
For posterity's sake (all AM unless otherwise noted):
EVENT
135.650 Air Boss VHF, also occasional air-to-ground PA interconnect
238.150 Air Boss UHF
123.150 PiRep (Pilot Reports; in-air weather observations) & air-to-ground PA interconnect
157.050 Show Control (Marine #21, management of marine exclusion area; FM)
ACTS
135.650 Brazilian Smoke Squadron (using event Air Boss VHF channel, in Portuguese for internal coordination)
345.000 USCG HH-65 SAR Demonstration
140.200 USAF A-10 Demonstration (not 100% sure)
384.550 USAF F-16 Demonstration
141.075 USAF Thunderbirds (Diamond)
235.250 USAF Thunderbirds (Solos)
139.800 USAF Thunderbirds (post-finale / egressing the show box)
OTHER
163.5125/D743 Unidentified, show-related, may have been hospitality at a nearby facility (FM)
NOTES
There was a low ceiling and thus only two or three parachute jumps, no Golden Knights performance, and a low show by the Thunderbirds.
I'm not wiki-literate, anyone care to add the Event and Other channels to the wiki for next year?
Jim
I think this was "Bader", as in the old Bader air field. They used it as an airborne staging area for certain aircraft appearing/performing (not to mention spectator parking and staging for ground emergency response assets) and many acts approached the show box from that area as if it was a navigation reference point.A few times when they had someone holding at the Borgota they made a reference to "Vader" .. I think? "Hold at the Borgata at 1,500 just below Vader"? Any idea what Vader is?
I may have missed that, the only references to a "hole" which I remember was as the Golden Knights sought a hole in the low cloud cover which would have allowed a short jump instead of no jump at all.For the 4-ship Viper fly by when they came through the air boss told them "do not head out to the hole". Any idea what "the hole" is? Some sort of restricted air space off the coast? If so, any frequencies for this?
I think this was "Bader", as in the old Bader air field. They used it as an airborne staging area for certain aircraft appearing/performing (not to mention spectator parking and staging for ground emergency response assets) and many acts approached the show box from that area as if it was a navigation reference point.
The times I heard it Bader was not an elevation reference but a lateral reference -- "hold at," or, "hold short of," or "stay clear of..."
I may have missed that, the only references to a "hole" which I remember was as the Golden Knights sought a hole in the low cloud cover which would have allowed a short jump instead of no jump at all.