Mid-Air Refueling over Nova Scotia

[darrylcn]

Groaaaaaan!!!! Damn clouds!!!

 

[Mark]

These were bringing the Maryland ANG A-10s home from the UK after a stop in BIKF (Keflavík International Airport).

Heard a TABOR 11 flight 1821z and TABOR 21 flight coming in at 1852z
Guess that was all 8 of them.

 

[darrylcn]

Anyone have any details on the pair of KC-135s operating as Clean 91/92 near Yarmouth?

 

[looknlisten]

The CLEAN 91/92 tankers were bringing home F16s from the South Carolina ANG after spending the night at Lajes. I think I heard them call TABOR41 Flight.

 

[darrylcn]

Ah. Have a NAF DC-10 near now, has anyone ever seen them tank over us? Would they even follow the USAF tracks? I guess they must be transport planes usually when they're over this way.

 

[darrylcn]

Oh they're descending! Must be landing YHZ. Cool!
Edit: I think it's transporting people participating in the Tattoo which is coming up soon. Guess they're not towing a bunch of their Vipers this time either.

 

[Mark]

A NATO E3A was heard enroute DM yesterday near Toronto to retire in the Desert.

NATO ACO | First NATO E-3A AWACS retires from active service

https://www.dvidshub.net/news/165816/historic-event-first-nato-e-3a-aircraft-retire#.VYqOad7bJR0

 

[darrylcn]

Almost a month without a post here! Hmmm. A lot of RAF planes into and out of yhz by normal standards the last few days. And also I caught an E-8 last eve on my PC, and ran out to get a pic of it. Had em spotted and everything all nice and steady on the telescope and snapped shots as they were almost directly overhead. Reviewing the pic as they were passing out of sight over the house it was easy to read the Iberia logo on the tail. A340. Grrr!

 

[nyair1]

Almost a month without a post here! Hmmm. A lot of RAF planes into and out of yhz by normal standards the last few days. And also I caught an E-8 last eve on my PC, and ran out to get a pic of it. Had em spotted and everything all nice and steady on the telescope and snapped shots as they were almost directly overhead. Reviewing the pic as they were passing out of sight over the house it was easy to read the Iberia logo on the tail. A340. Grrr!

Thought all you guys were on vaction! Lol

 

[looknlisten]

I'm bored....we need some mil traffic. I happened to be awake when US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter departed the States (SKIP22,E 4B, 73-1677) but nothing heard. The two Kawasaki P1s that flew overhead were kool...but they went over in the dark. In both cases, no radio traffic heard (I'm hating CPDLC).
Looking like the rumour mill won't produce much traffic till the end of the month.
We need a 'Jade Helm' to get things going, lol.

 

[darrylcn]

Hehe. Googled Jade Helm. Some aluminum foil hattery down that road.

 

[Mark]

Summer slowdown.. Couple of Marine KC-130J's thru here today.
1505z OTIS 81 with McGuire metro req wx for CYYT,CYQX and KBGR for 1600-2000z.
See a couple of them up your way today one showing OTIS 83 and OTIS 87.

 

[darrylcn]

Sure is slow! Saw a Peach/Maine combo go by, I'm guessing SW bound.

 

[looknlisten]

Well...seems once again, a combination of low overcast and no comms let 4 Ospreys go over me unnoticed.
From Aircraft Movements St Johns Canada
"165738/BH and 166511/BH KC-130J USMC VMGR-252 OTIS81 and Flight Inb 19:17Z at 19:37Z All Diverted to Gander
4 x USMC MV22Bs ELVIS11, ELVIS12, ELVIS13, ELVIS14"

 

[isuse]

I'm bored....we need some mil traffic.... In both cases, no radio traffic heard (I'm hating CPDLC)....

Time to start working up some passive radar receivers?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_radar

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/passive-radar-dual-coherent-channel-rtl-sdr/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l9V73d0nF4A

 

[crazy357]

Otis 8-1, flight of 6, 2 Hercs and 4 V-22's went over YHZ around 1:30 pm, at roughly 20,000 ft.

 

[looknlisten]

That was OTIS81/82/83/84/85/86 headed to MCAS New River, Jacksonville, North Carolina.
They were in a block of 8000-10000 feet.
Sounds awesome when they go overhead.

 

[looknlisten]

Time to start working up some passive radar receivers?

Is there anything you can't do with those dongles?
Every week it's something new. Great bang-for-the-buck.
This passive radar thingy looks way too complex for me.

 

[isuse]

Writing ADS-B decoders, databases, MLAT localizers, and programs like SDR-Console V2 is very complicated too, but it's just a matter of time before someone makes the software to make multi-static passive radar accessible.

 

[darrylcn]

Wow that would be awesome. Hopefully we can get that going some day here.