Mid-Atlantic (and beyond) MilAir 2025

[Mark]

While this is a Mid-Atlantic group, not east coast group, they are free to join here or create/contribute to their own thread in the Florida threads. It is not about inviting them.

That said, with the exception of a very active Michigan Mil-Air thread, there are few others across the country that are active day by day in the forums.

We used to have South Florida mil guy some years ago.. Al Stern from Satellite Beach.Ron prob remembers him too.
He was very helpful in early days in late 90's before this board was even around.
He had huge antenna farm on top of his house down there and owned 75 various scanners and radios.
On average he had a dozen radios going all the time.. He passed away some years ago but was early pioneer
in scanning Florida Milcoms and Space launch coms.. He sure would have liked Space X with all their launches.
Reported passing of Al Stern (Satellite Beach, FL)

Space X has launch at 5:05PM local from Cape Canaveral.. Will be departing on Southeast track though.

 

[mdmonitor]

You'd be HAPPY too if you were headed home, but I doubt you are 82.

Raleigh,

Actually, I'll be 83 next month.

 

[mdmonitor]

Rare visitor.

Batt 43 (EA-37B # 19-5591 off MTN heading south.

 

[mdmonitor]

We used to have South Florida mil guy some years ago.. Al Stern from Satellite Beach.Ron prob remembers him too.
He was very helpful in early days in late 90's before this board was even around.
He had huge antenna farm on top of his house down there and owned 75 various scanners and radios.
On average he had a dozen radios going all the time.. He passed away some years ago but was early pioneer
in scanning Florida Milcoms.
Reported passing of Al Stern (Satellite Beach, FL)

Mark,

I remember him well. He was a great help to me when I first started in this hobby back in the mid-90's. Always very helpful and very knowledgeable. I always envied his monitoring equipment.

 

[FIREBOX2914]

We used to have South Florida mil guy some years ago.. Al Stern from Satellite Beach.Ron prob remembers him too.
He was very helpful in early days in late 90's before this board was even around.
He had huge antenna farm on top of his house down there and owned 75 various scanners and radios.
On average he had a dozen radios going all the time.. He passed away some years ago but was early pioneer
in scanning Florida Milcoms and Space launch coms.. He sure would have liked Space X with all their launches.
Reported passing of Al Stern (Satellite Beach, FL)

Space X has launch at 5:05PM local from Cape Canaveral.. Will be departing on Southeast track though.

Was he the gentleman that lived in the approach path to Patrick AFB (now SFB)? Name sounds familiar, I believe I met him on my only ever visit Patrick AFB several years ago right before he passed away. Reminded me of TroyMail and his amazing radio collection and knowledge.

 

[TerryPavlick]

Mark,

I remember him well. He was a great help to me when I first started in this hobby back in the mid-90's. Always very helpful and very knowledgeable. I always envied his monitoring equipment.

Yeah, Al was a great guy and he would definitely have lots more to monitor now with POTUS location and all the space launches.

 

[TerryPavlick]

Was he the gentleman that lived in the approach path to Patrick AFB (now SFB)? Name sounds familiar, I believe I met him on my only ever visit Patrick AFB several years ago right before he passed away. Reminded me of TroyMail and his amazing radio collection and knowledge.

Yes he always posted great pictures of aircraft landing there.

 

[TerryPavlick]

Mark,

I remember him well. He was a great help to me when I first started in this hobby back in the mid-90's. Always very helpful and very knowledgeable. I always envied his monitoring equipment.

Ron

Now you are making me feel old (I first started in this hobby back in the mid-90's) ... I started aviation monitoring when I was 11 with a Midland tunable multi-band radio. Coming up on 58 years - I remember when scanning the bands required twisting the tuning knob !!

 

[Mark]

Yes he always posted great pictures of aircraft landing there.

Yeah Patrick AFB was his home favorite base.. Pics took a long while to post back then on my
28.8 speed phone modem before my upgraded 56k modem came along 🤣🤣

 

[RaleighGuy]

Busy night in Miami with TEDDY65 C17 arrives to pick up POTUS equipment SAM47 09-0017 flying near Palm Bch waiting for AF1 to depart Miami Int'l and Trump's motorcade on the way to the airport, ready to head back to ADW and the White House after a four day trip across the country.

AF1 wheels up 1904

 

[apex31]

Yeah they were a bit upset with their flyby according to their air / air comms. They knew they were a bit out of sync but one of the pilots said it would look different from the ground so maybe not too bad.

From the stadium level, all looked good. #4 definitely threw some power in at the last minute to hold tight formation, but their pass was very professional. The flight crew was shown on the screen at the start of the fourth quarter and received a standing ovation from the 70,000 fans in attendance.

 

[Gmork]

While this is a Mid-Atlantic group, not east coast group, they are free to join here or create/contribute to their own thread in the Florida threads. It is not about inviting them.

That said, with the exception of a very active Michigan Mil-Air thread, there are few others across the country that are active day by day in the forums.

I made a post in the Florida threads for info on POTUS/CAP as I'd like to monitor them. Especially living in South Florida.

I was referred to a Facebook group which has been inactive. Or not as much info as I thought would be there.

 

[RaleighGuy]

I made a post in the Florida threads for info on POTUS/CAP as I'd like to monitor them. Especially living in South Florida.

I was referred to a Facebook group which has been inactive. Or not as much info as I thought would be there.

Thank you for the update, I missed your post there. Hopefully you'll keep us updated as the visits continue down there.

 

[Gmork]

Thank you for the update, I missed your post there. Hopefully you'll keep us updated as the visits continue down there.

I think I'll create a thread in Florida forums.

 

[RaleighGuy]

I think I'll create a thread in Florida forums.

There you go @Hbright

 

[Gmork]

There you go @Hbright

@RaleighGuy

AF1/POTUS/CAP - Monitoring

I feel like I didn't take advantage of this back during 2017-2021 living in South Florida. I would often see re-fuelers on ADSB and then spot them in the backyard. I did hear AF1 on FLL Tower which was cool. I know most of the LE Comms is encrypted which feels like groundhog day to me anyways...

forums.radioreference.com

I used the original forum to keep the mods at bay...

 

[RaleighGuy]

Time for a vacation after less than two weeks of hard work signing executive orders

FAASTeam Notice
Type: Selected ATC Notices
Notice Date: Monday, January 27, 2025
Notice Number: NOTC4255
VIP Movement Notification – Palm Beach, FL
31 JAN - 02 FEB 2025
Palm Beach, FL
30/10 NMR; SFC – 17,999 MSL

 

[Mark]

OT: Overnight two Mil Colombia B-737's arrived in US for some CBP export pax.
FAC-1219 into Miramar Cal and FAC-1222 into Biggs AAF Texas.
Both now showing southbound for home.

Seems we missed an Andrews Scramble this past Sat night..

C-32 Forced To Delay Landing After F-16s Scrambled To Intercept Drone Near Capital

The incident took place as President Donald Trump has vowed to provide more details about mysterious drones.

www.twz.com

 

[RichardKramer]

Yeah, Al was a great guy and he would definitely have lots more to monitor now with POTUS location and all the space launches.

Al's spirit is probably riding in the cockpit of all those aircraft!; now if he could find some way to relay what he sees on those comm cards down to us!

 

[mdmonitor]

Spooky.

Earlier chat about Al Stern and look what just popped up on my screensaver