SE MI logs 01-01-11 to 01-03-11
Man, 2011. Another year gone!
01-01-11
DEMON 11 x 4 (MI A-10’s)
259.950 MTC clrnc, I could hear DEMON answer clearance while still on the ground, 11:07am.
275.800 MTC grnd, DEMON 11 taxi to rnwy 19, 11:11am.
225.400 MTC twr, DEMON 11 Selfridge twr rnwy 19 line up and wait, 11:36am. Cleared for take off 11:37am.
361.250 A/A, 11:39am. Calling out altitudes & cloud conditions.
391.900 MTC dep, 11:40am. We’ll need to change our routing to dir Lansing, 11:42am. Left turn to 290, 11:44am. Dep I’ll need the block 6 to 8 thousand as soon as possible, 11:46am. (It didn’t help their timing by taking off to the south & then having to turn left out over the Lake, then head north for a little bit to clear Metro’s airspace, before they could head west to Lansing).
257.900 Flint app, 11:46am. Need direct Lansing, running a minute late for the Governors Inauguration.
226.400 Lansing app, Demon 13, requesting no delay for the flyby, 11:51am. Demon 11 x 4, for the Gubernatorial flyby, 11:54am.
143.750 calling TREE, ground spotter.
361.250 A/A, I lost them for awhile, to low. Then they popped back up at, 12:12pm. Ops check, 1 is, 7.2. 2 is, 7.3. 3 is, 7.4. 4 is, 7.2, 12:18pm. (#1 wasn’t having a good day, because of cutting it to close. Mentioned that it felt like his hair was on fire. #3 kept laughing about it). Lead called out a couple of tall antenna’s in the Saginaw Bay area before they dropped down to low for me to hear them.
143.750 Ops, w/ codes, # 1 had problems with his INS, that’s why they were almost late for the flyby, 12:12pm. (I was wondering why it took them so long to launch). Said they would be back around the top of the hour after a little low level work in the Thumb area.
118.800 Flint app, 12:13pm. Like to cancel IFR & get VFR flight following to the north Saginaw Bay area, to do some low level work, 12:17pm.
255.400 LAN FSS, 12:20pm.
01-02-11
MUDDY 11 x 2
228.900 HUNTRESS, 01:20am. TOI is a 747 (Possibly DLH499 Lufthansa), going to Europe, 01:25am. Ops check 9.0, 9.2, 01:32am. Trenton (Canada) as a divert base, 01:35am.
251.125 Cleve.C. 01:25am.
234.700 SIDECAR, MUDDY 12, 01:27am. Calling again, no joy, 01:34am. Calling SIDECAR, has good contact now, 01:37am. MUDDY 11 x 2, 01:39am. Trying to figure out which Trenton they’re talking about (Canada) N44.07.01 W77.30.38 twr on, 128.700, 01:44am.
228.900 HUNTRESS, Timber sweet, Jackal sour, because we're out of range, 02:11am. How are your ears 2? No problems, 02:13am. Huntress MUDDY both code 1 how do you copy, 02:18am. They're heading back home to TOL, 02:23am. MUDDY 12 cleared off for ATIS & in-flight, 02:29am. 2 is Gogg's off, 1 is Gogg's off (Night Vision Goggles), 02:34am. MUDDY 11 final Ops check 1 is 4.3, 2 is 4.1, 02:36am. Slowing to 200, 02:39am.
379.950 Cleve.C. 02:20am.
371.950 Cleve.C. 02:28am.
141.650 MADDOG Ops, AUX secure, 02:31am.
134.350 TOL app, 02:37am.
317.550 TOL app, Looking for radar trail recovery for 2, 02:37am. Visual app rnwy 25, 02:38am.
They must have ARC-210 radio's now. They're using 2 UHF freqs at the same time.
01-03-10
SIERRA 139 (AS-139 helo)
121.300 DET twr, 06:10pm.
120.150 MTC twr, 06:13pm.
UNITED 940 Boeing 777-200
133.525 Cleve.C. stuck mike, 08:29pm. Problem with both transmitters.
120.075 Cleve.C. stuck mike, 08:30pm. Pilot kept saying, we’re done. As in we’ll have to turn back if we can’t fix the radio’s.
121.500 Emergency freq, 08:32pm. Working now, 08:35pm.
135.825 Tor.C. stuck mike, 08:41pm.
Diverted to Toronto Pearson airport. Now heading back to Chicago O-Hare, 03:18am.
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