Michigan Military Activity

[diskmonger]

09-21-24
N3A GOODYEAR ZEPPELIN
120.300 ARB twr. 03:26pm.

123.300 helo talking to ?

Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

I heard that too Chuck, seemed to be a helo talking to the STINGRAY flight & BLIMP, I'd call that one an A/A Common for the game. STINGRAY flight was also on 130.650 talking to what seemed like the BLIMP.

I monitor a lot of Michigan game flyovers and I can't remember a more busy airspace than what we had today.

GO BLUE!

 

[diskmonger]

09-21-24
N3A GOODYEAR ZEPPELIN
120.300 ARB twr. 03:26pm.

123.300 helo talking to ?

Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

By the way, 3NA Goodyear Blimp was using 151.505 NFM (151.4 PL) to coordinate with the ground/program director.

 

[nodak1crdet3]

09-22-24
SLEEP 81 & 82 (T-1A 93-0647, & 93-0653)
238.175 A/A, 09:42am. Departed Alpena.

Another flight on 30-30.
303.000 A/A, 09:53am.



Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

 

[nodak1crdet3]

09-22-24
CHEVY 71 Heavy (MI KC-135 59-1474)
125.150 DTW app, 06:28pm. Flew past me with the gear down, 06:32pm.
118.400 DTW twr, 06:38pm.
That's an old F-4 travel callsign, when they had an alert detachment at Seymour Johnson AFB. Also used by the F-16's for CAP duty.



The STINGRAY flight departed YIP around 14:40Z (10:40am) today.


Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

 

[nodak1crdet3]

10-02-24

121.500 some airliner reporting a bright light ove Lake Michigan circling, 09:50pm. Said he's been wathcing it for the past 20 minutes.
125.975 Chi.C. Airliner telling Chi.C. about it, 09:58pm.

Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

 

[nodak1crdet3]

10-02-24

121.500 some airliner reporting a bright light ove Lake Michigan circling, 09:50pm. Said he's been wathcing it for the past 20 minutes.
125.975 Chi.C. Airliner telling Chi.C. about it, 09:58pm.

Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

Can someone get this guy spell check on his phone? 😃
What is a wathcing? Honest occifer I wasn't drunk when I posted that! 😃
All the right letters to spell watching, just not in the right order. & add an r to ove!

Some people saw a meteor last night that made a booming sound, & others saw a string of SpaceX Starlink satellites.

Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

 

[nodak1crdet3]

10-03-24
RCH 4140 (C-17A 99-0062) going to Flint Airport for VP visit tomorrow. Also visiting the Detroit area tomorrow also. I saw a RCH flight go to Metro Airport yesterday.



Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

 

[RaleighGuy]

10-03-24
RCH 4140 (C-17A 99-0062) going to Flint Airport for VP visit tomorrow. Also visiting the Detroit area tomorrow also. I saw a RCH flight go to Metro Airport yesterday.

Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

She will be spending the night in Detroit tonight before her Flint visit tomorrow.

At 6:35 PM CT, the Vice President will depart Oshkosh, WI en route to Detroit, MI, from Wittman Regional Airport
At 8:35 PM ET, the Vice President will arrive in Detroit, MI, arrival at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport

 

[nodak1crdet3]

She will be spending the night in Detroit tonight before her Flint visit tomorrow.

At 6:35 PM CT, the Vice President will depart Oshkosh, WI en route to Detroit, MI, from Wittman Regional Airport
At 8:35 PM ET, the Vice President will arrive in Detroit, MI, arrival at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport

Thanks for the info. I see AF-2 is heading my way right now. Trump just landed at MBS Saginaw a little while ago. Vance was here yesterday.

Chuck

 

[RaleighGuy]

Thanks for the info. I see AF-2 is heading my way right now. Trump just landed at MBS Saginaw a little while ago. Vance was here yesterday.

Chuck

At 3:20 PM ET, the Vice President will depart Detroit, MI en route to Flint, MI.
At 3:55 PM ET, the Vice President will arrive in Flint, MI, at Bishop International Airport.
At 6:55 PM ET, the Vice President will depart Flint, MI en route to Washington, DC.

 

[dispatchgeek]

10-02-24

121.500 some airliner reporting a bright light ove Lake Michigan circling, 09:50pm. Said he's been wathcing it for the past 20 minutes.
125.975 Chi.C. Airliner telling Chi.C. about it, 09:58pm.

Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

I just pulled tape (errrr... MP3s) and caught this guy as well. He had a strange emPHASis on the wrong syLAbles.

 

[nodak1crdet3]

By the way, 3NA Goodyear Blimp was using 151.505 NFM (151.4 PL) to coordinate with the ground/program director.

I was listening to 151.505 also, but I don't think it was Goodyear. I'm still hearing someone using that freq. I'm not sure who they are? I finally got a PL of 114.8. They don't talk alot so it's kinda hard to figure out who they are.

Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

 

[dispatchgeek]

10/10/24: 338.950-COMBAT CIDER: TACAMO data carrier, possibly from E6 AKORI57, flying north of Dayton OH right now. Used to hear digital data with these, now rarely heard and usually only a dead carrier on the center frequency.

 

[diskmonger]

I was listening to 151.505 also, but I don't think it was Goodyear. I'm still hearing someone using that freq. I'm not sure who they are? I finally got a PL of 114.8. They don't talk alot so it's kinda hard to figure out who they are.

Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

That freq is a common itinerant freq, so a lot of construction crews and stuff are on there. I've even heard the blimp complain about hearing stuff on there before.

 

[nodak1crdet3]

10-14-24
AF-2 (C-32A 757-200 99-0004)
118.400 AF-2 just landed DTW rnwy 3R, 09:55pm.

I saw EXEC1F 737 01-0041 depart DTW earlier today on ADSB around 05:30pm.

Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

 

[RaleighGuy]

10-14-24
AF-2 (C-32A 757-200 99-0004)
118.400 AF-2 just landed DTW rnwy 3R, 09:55pm.

It's going to be there a couple days.

 

[nodak1crdet3]

10-16-24
JEEP 31 x 4
234.700 BLACK TALON, 12:32pm. RTB MTC, 12:48pm.
228.125 A/A, 12:39pm. Direct VIPER down to 360 knots, 12:43pm.
134.600 MN.C. 12:42pm.
311.000 QUARTERBACK Ops, ETA, codes, 12:48pm.
119.600 MTC app, landing runway 1, 12:57pm.
120.150 MTC twr, 12:57pm. (Tighten up that formation & do a Navy overhead break!) 😃





Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

 

[RaleighGuy]

VP to Grand Rapids tomorrow evening ( Thursday 17th) for RON

At 7:25 PM CT, the Vice President will depart Green Bay, WI en route to Grand Rapids, MI. This departure is from Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport.

At 9:15 PM ET, the Vice President will arrive in Grand Rapids, MI. This arrival will be at Gerald Ford International Airport, where she will remain overnight.

Friday she is scheduled to be in Grand Rapids, Lansing and Oakland County.

 

[nodak1crdet3]

10-18-24
ISS
148.500 FM, answering questions from students, 01:01pm.



Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

 

[nodak1crdet3]

10-18-24
SAM 244 (VC-32A 757-200 99-0003)
118.400 DTW twr, landing 21L, 08:26pm. Departed PTK for DTW.

TFR for today & tomorrow.

4/0396 NOTAM Details

CHILL 11 (Sounded like)
317.625 Indy.C. 07:10pm.

GROOT 99 (E-4B 747-200 73-1677) Sounded like.
125.775 TOR.C.
133.875 Cleve.C. 08:48pm.
126.125 Chi.C. 09:01pm.



Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1