Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2023

[RaleighGuy]

And, after a peaceful week in Tahoe, it's time to return to the east coast and beautiful downtown Washington DC.

POTUS travel for Saturday, August 26, 2023

PDT

1:45 PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart Reno-Tahoe International Airport, Reno, Nevada en route to the White House

EDT

9:15 PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrives/departs Joint Base Andrews
9:25 PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive at the White House South Lawn

 

[RaleighGuy]

On Wednesday, August 30th and Thursday, August 31st, First Lady Jill Biden will travel to Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

Indianapolis, Indiana
On Wednesday, August 30th, the First Lady will arrive at Indianapolis International Airport in Indianapolis, IN.

Chicago, Illinois
In the afternoon of Wednesday, August 30th, the First Lady will arrive at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, IL.

Madison, Wisconsin
On Thursday, August 31st, the First Lady will arrive at Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, WI.

 

[RaleighGuy]

Notable events from the week ahead...

On Tuesday, the President will host President Rodrigo Chaves Robles of Costa Rica for a bilateral meeting at the White House.

On Friday, the President will travel to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he will remain over the weekend.

 

[rjsincs]

KAVP got a visit from a FA18 today. After I got the head on shot the fuel truck obscured my view of the side. Oh well, still nice to have such a cool visitor. The airport had a livestream of it also. F/A-18 Hornet from VFA-32 🇺🇸 | By Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport | Facebook

 

[Mark]

KAVP got a visit from a FA18 today. After I got the head on shot the fuel truck obscured my view of the side. Oh well, still nice to have such a cool visitor. The airport had a livestream of it also. F/A-18 Hornet from VFA-32 🇺🇸 | By Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport | Facebook

Usually callsign GYPSY## on the radio.. Nice catch!

 

[n4jri]

Interesting stuff. If you look up Currituck Regional Airport in SkyVector, that airport doesn't have a control tower, but for communications it lists Oceana Approach/Departure Control on 123.9 and 266.8.

If you'd like, I can send you a copy of a very detailed spreadsheet with FAA ATC frequencies that I got from someone on RR. If I interpret the info correctly, Oceana Approach/Departure Control has a remote site at Currituck Regional. It also shows 288.3 as SFA for Oceana (Apollo Field).

Sounds great to me!

 

[BM82557]

Hex miscode? --

 

[AirScan]

If you'd like, I can send you a copy of a very detailed spreadsheet with FAA ATC frequencies that I got from someone on RR. If I interpret the info correctly, Oceana Approach/Departure Control has a remote site at Currituck Regional.

Hi Larry, I'd be interested in seeing that spreadsheet too (check PMs). I'd be surprised if Oceana had a remote transmitter at Currituck, one clue is in the remarks section that provides a phone number to call for CD (Clearance Delivery) instead of providing a frequency, but you never know.

A guy that I was talking to at the spot showed me a list he said he'd copied from the tower some years back. His list has 288.3 as approach North, vs. 266.8 being approach South.

The RR Database shows 353.700/118.900 as another approach pair, so looks like 353.700 has been replaced by 323.050, although I can't find any reference to it in any FAA docs. Can anyone confirm 118.900 ? My guess is Instead of north-south the Approach sectors are split vertically with 266.800/123.900 at 5000 and above and 323.050/118.900? 4500 and below.

Complex airspace in that area with Oceana, Norfolk, Cherry Point, ZDC and Giant Killer all overlapping each other. Need to get a copy of their respective SOPs with sector charts. Closest I've been able to find is a chart in the Cherry Point SOP that shows the northern boundaries.

 

[AirScan]

so looks like 353.700 has been replaced by 323.050, although I can't find any reference to it in any FAA docs. Can anyone confirm 118.900 ?

Nevermind. I see now that 353.700/118.900 are Norfolk Approach frequencies and not Oceana Approach. Database needs to be updated.

 

[Mark]

Slow Mil day. Guess all the local ANG folks have weekend off.. Maybe last weekend of the Month
and used up their training hours budget... Red Flag Alaska is over as Acars has
3 Pease KC-46's PACK-91,92,94 enroute back home to KPSM.

 

[BM82557]

Starting to see some action at KMRB airshow, powered up on the ground --








We're going tomorrow, who knows who we will see there!

Air boss is active on 135.650

 

[RaleighGuy]

The president's arrival back in DC has been moved up a couple hours, with POTUS now scheduled to land on the South Lawn at 7:25pm.

 

[N4TX]

Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map | Flightradar24 Army parachute team is up at the MRB AIR SHOW.

 

[mdmonitor]

1540- Kalon 52 (E-6B # 163918) off PAX.

 

[CYUL]

HBAL653 over Maine at FL650-670

 

[CYUL]

KC46 Movements Eastbound

 

[BM82557]

Starting to see some action at KMRB airshow, powered up on the ground --

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We're going tomorrow, who knows who we will see there!

Air boss is active on 135.650

I took this one of the AC-130J from our patio today --

 

[Mark]

Navy Academy Football team played in Dublin vs Notre Dame earlier tonight and got crushed
but still brought a flyover for the pre game

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1622iqz

 

[Mark]

There is a Navy GLF5 #166376 filed from EIME Casement AB in Baldonnel to KADW today.
Prob for Navy Brass watching the football game in Dublin.

US Marines having bad week with aircraft as an MV-22 accident in Australia.
They always seem to run in streaks..

US military aircraft carrying more than 20 Marines crashes over Australia, killing 3 and injuring others

A military aircraft with more than 20 U.S. Marines onboard crashed Sunday near Melville Island in Australia's Northern Territory. No Australians were involved in the crash.

www.foxnews.com

 

[n4jri]

My guess is Instead of north-south the Approach sectors are split vertically with 266.800/123.900 at 5000 and above and 323.050/118.900? 4500 and below.

My guess is Instead of north-south the Approach sectors are split vertically with 266.800/123.900 at 5000 and above and 323.050/118.900? 4500 and below.

The use of 323.05 didn't sound to me like another approach sector, and planes were not consistently handed off to it from 266.8. It appeared to be an alternative to GCA/SFA freqs for planes coming in on a straight approach--except that more than one aircraft would use this freq at the same time. The instance that I recall, involved a flight of two being split into single aircraft which were than addressed individually by he controllers. (BTW, Rwy 05 was the active, so I only heard approaches from the south)

73/Allen (N4JRI)