DMAFB Heritage Conference 6-8 March 09

[FLANO]

Hello All,

It's that time again for vintage warbirds to fly around the flagpole with modern day warbirds. If you haven't gotten your pictures yet of these mixed flying formations, then now's your chance.

The aircraft begin their training flights on the 6th, in the early morning and continue throughout the day.

The following arrived today 4 March:

Flight of 7, Burst-01/02, Viper-01/02, Demo-01/02/03

Curtis-85104 - 2x P-40

Mustang-01- 2x P-51/Mustang

N86AM - F-86/Sabre

Phantom-01 - 3x F-4/Phantom

Skyraider-65AD - A-1/Skyraider

Tiger-51 - 2x F-16

Eagle-01 - 2x F-15 (ID based on callsign, not self-ID'ed)

I drove by Base Ops about 4:30pm and there were no F-22's...yet.

Based upon the last 4 years of this conference that I've personally monitored and photographed, here are some basic frequencies to punch in, if you're in the area

118.50mhz - Heritage Flight Discrete
118.85mhz - Tower VHF
123.15mhz - Heritage Flight Discrete
134.10mhz - Heritage Flight Discrete
253.50mhz - Tower UHF
305.40mhz - 354FS Ops - A-10
327.70mhz - DM SOF
376.025mhz - F-15 and F-22 Airshow Control Discrete
384.55mhz - F-16 Airshow Control Discrete

Here are some photos from last year's conference. Can you ID them all?

 

[FLANO]

Not too much has changed since last years' conference. I spent the day on the flight line photographing and monitoring the radios.

The "new" aircraft in the line-up is the Skyraider. It's a lot bigger than I expected.
Off the top of my head:
Modern aircraft - 4 A-10's, 2 F-22A's, 5 F-16's, 3 F-15E's, and 2 F-15's.
Vintage aircraft - P-51's, P-40's, an F-86, 4x QF-4's, and a Skyraider.
No "Tar Heel" this year.

This year the Air Boss has access to UHF radios and the Base TRS.

Frequencies:
118.50mhz - Air Boss - Primary
118.85mhz - DMAFB Tower
122.475mhz - A-10 Demo Discrete
134.10mhz - Heritage Flight A2A Discrete - Secondary
134.675mhz - Heritage Flight A2A Discrete - Primary
253.50mhz - DMAFB Tower
361.50mhz - Rhino Discrete
376.025mhz - Raptor and Strike Eagle Control, also heard Vipers on this one
384.55mhz - Eagle Discrete


TG 5952 - DMAFB Runway Net - Air Boss, Tower, Runway Ops

 

[Astrak]

Sounds like it was fun, did they show off a little thrust vectoring with the F22?

 

[FLANO]

Yes they did!

They only did partial demos on Friday and today. Tomorrow, at 1pm, the full F-22A demo is scheduled. And, :<, I can not be there :<

Same freqs today as yesterday....

Sounds like it was fun, did they show off a little thrust vectoring with the F22?

 

[CORN]

F-22's were headed that way on Wed the 4th.

John,

Is it possible that when you drove by the base on the Wed Mar 4 that the Raptors were already in the hangar or maybe parked out of site from the road? I ask because i heard them using the call FIRST 01, flight of 2 with Indy Ctr around 1120 CST that morning. He was looking to join up with DEMO 01 x 2 (F-15E team) and VIPER 01 x 2 (F-16 East team) prior to refueling with SLUFF 22 on AR-111 (348.9).

They were no doubt westbound. And just an FYI once all three flights joined up and became a flight of 6 they were using 136.575 for a/a. The tanker boom operator got a good photo shoot as he asked them if they would set up for a photo op prior to moving on. They agreed to it.

 

[FLANO]

Hi Joe,

At the time I drove by, they weren't on the Transient Ramp in front of Base Ops, at least not from what I saw. But at the same time, I did catch them all landing in my recording of DMAFB Tower for the day. Just some how snuck by me, darn anti-radar stuff

I had that freq plugged in at the conference, and unfortunately, didn't hear a thing

Today the full Raptor demo is at 1pm, Sunday, for those interested. I won't be able to make the show today :<

John
SE of Tucson

John,

Is it possible that when you drove by the base on the Wed Mar 4 that the Raptors were already in the hangar or maybe parked out of site from the road? I ask because i heard them using the call FIRST 01, flight of 2 with Indy Ctr around 1120 CST that morning. He was looking to join up with DEMO 01 x 2 (F-15E team) and VIPER 01 x 2 (F-16 East team) prior to refueling with SLUFF 22 on AR-111 (348.9).

They were no doubt westbound. And just an FYI once all three flights joined up and became a flight of 6 they were using 136.575 for a/a. The tanker boom operator got a good photo shoot as he asked them if they would set up for a photo op prior to moving on. They agreed to it.

 

[CORN]

136.575

Yeah, i'd suppose that freq doesn't get much use in the show setting. At the airshows i've been to the demos used their normal UHF spotter freq and even the HF was on something other than the VHF freq alotted to the demo (mainly the F-16). I am assuming that they all used that freq once they joined up over KY for the F-16's benefit since they were UHF for ATC purposes. It's my understanding the F-16 can be on one or the other (UHF for ATC/VHF for a/a or vice versa and the Viper prefers VHF for interplane), not like the F-22's or F-15's that can do both ATC and A/A on two seperate UHF freqs. Can't wait till my first show which will be Tyndall AFB in a couple of weeks.