Dobbins AirShow

[b7spectra]

I heard a lot of traffic on Disaster 3 & 4 on the Cobb DTRS. Probably for the Air Show. I wouldn't be surprised if the Cobb DTRS and the Dobbins DTRS get patched together for the event.

 

[radiofan1]

I'm going Sunday, my 5 yr old can't wait to see the Hornets. Any parking tips, etc. from anyone? I haven't run around that area in several years.

 

[rmiller818]

You have to park at White Water, Jim Miller park, or Lockheed and be bussed to the entrance, unless you have a pass.

I don't know how well it went but 41 was stopped at the end of the show with traffic, most people were lining up for the buses while the Blue Angles were still performing.

 

[b7spectra]

I have a pass! Parking on base! It says ALL ACCESS on it!

 

[rmiller818]

I have a pass! Parking on base! It says ALL ACCESS on it!

I had that as well today, made it so much easier trying to leave. Plus a free lunch!

 

[K4SVT]

air show

well i enjoyed it the part of saturday..helping out Cobb public health and fire and cobb ARES with med ops...i had all access also and carrying a icom 92AD and a Xts5000 on Cobb DTRS (was assigned to me)..FG7 is what we used..i loved it out there today hope to do it again too! and also walked by a few hams and people with scanners and cameras....

 

[b7spectra]

But did you write down everything that was in the XTS5000?

Airshow was AWESOME today. Yeah, the all access pass was the bee's knees! It was funny when the Sgt at one of the check points (while driving in) wanted to know why I had a 11 pound box of confetti in the back of the truck! I just wish we could have been on the former Navy side, that way the sun would have been to our backs and make picture taking better (but Photoshop CS5 did help fix them!).

 

[K4SVT]

hey!

wasn't much....acworth austell cobb smyrna pd & fd cobb ems & kennestone and cobb er and some of the services that are in cobb like water and fleet and so on....great radio...model 2 also...

 

[CORN]

I heard a lot of traffic on Disaster 3 & 4 on the Cobb DTRS. Probably for the Air Show. I wouldn't be surprised if the Cobb DTRS and the Dobbins DTRS get patched together for the event.

b7, you were correct. Dobbins had one of their talkgroups tied into the Cobb Cnty system i believe it was Distaster 4 (31105). I can't remember the Dobbins TGID tied into it. But you'd hear the Dobbins personel talk and after like a 3 second delay it would come over disaster 4 TGID. Kind of neat. Good show by the way.

 

[b7spectra]

Great show! Excellent scanning! Colonel Tarchick (CO of 94th AW) was in our seating area and he was carrying an XTS2500 model 2 and you could hear Base Ops on his radio. Being in the VIP sitting, did give opportunity for excellent photography!

 

[RickS31]

Great Picture Mike. Must have been great.
Rick

 

[N8IAA]

Great Picture Mike. Must have been great.
Rick

You can't even imagine, Rick Has to be one of the best airshows I've ever been. Been going for over 40 years. Once I discovered you could listen to the pilots performing, I've always had a receiver that could monitor the frequencies. Great show, great friends.
Larry

 

[rmiller818]

Sorry Mike, I got to one up you.

This was after we landed at Dobbins and were taxing past the Blues.

 

[b7spectra]

Look carefully at the BA's in your pictures. See anything weird?

 

[CORN]

I see two #7s. I guess they had to crank out the spares for practice.

 

[b7spectra]

You may have taxied past the Blues, but I had dinner with them!

 

[RickS31]

Mike, next time can be your scanner hauling lackey?

What a nice honor.

Rick

 

[b7spectra]

The honors all belong to MetroFire, without him, I wouldn't have been there!

 

[rmiller818]

You may have taxied past the Blues, but I had dinner with them!

I was more excited about landing at Dobbins.

 

[b7spectra]

While flying with my pilot during the 96 Olympics, we were able to get DARB to do a GCA for us. "You are over the numbers, have a good night" was from the GCA and we couldn't have been more than 10' above the runway and numbers. That was awesome!