Mil Air 326.200 MHz?

[afchev]

I was scanning some mil air stuff here in Vegas and came across 326.200. After about 20 minutes of listening, I started realizing that the controller appeared to be guiding maybe 7 or 8 different aircraft with different callsigns into the approach. The traffic was super fast pace, one aircraft after another.

The only thing is, every single pilot sounded like exactly the same female voice responding back. One callsign reported rime ice on the decent, and when the controller advised a different callsign that they were going to be descending into icing conditions, the pilot that responded back sounded exactly like the one that initially provided the PIREP, and so on, so fort.

It sounded like one was handed off to the tower which I was assuming was Nellis, as the controller was clearing them direct to Apex. However I was listening to Nellis tower (UHF and VHF) and did not hear anyone switch over. This went on for about 20 minutes and went silent. Does anyone know what this frequency is? Training maybe?

 

[MiCon]

The last time I heard this freq in NV was 2018 when it ID'd as Nellis Control, so I can't vouch for what I'm about to say.

I had a similar experience some years ago while monitoring at Luke AFB near Phoenix. As I listened to the transmissions it became obvious this was a Luke approach frequency that was assigned as GCA or precision approaches, but was at that time being used as an approach control training freq. It sounded like the controller was a newbe to the base and was getting training on familiarization with the local approach procedures. The 'pilots' was another controller acting the part of numerous a/c in the pattern.

 

[pro106import]

I was scanning some mil air stuff here in Vegas and came across 326.200. After about 20 minutes of listening, I started realizing that the controller appeared to be guiding maybe 7 or 8 different aircraft with different callsigns into the approach. The traffic was super fast pace, one aircraft after another.

The only thing is, every single pilot sounded like exactly the same female voice responding back. One callsign reported rime ice on the decent, and when the controller advised a different callsign that they were going to be descending into icing conditions, the pilot that responded back sounded exactly like the one that initially provided the PIREP, and so on, so fort.

It sounded like one was handed off to the tower which I was assuming was Nellis, as the controller was clearing them direct to Apex. However I was listening to Nellis tower (UHF and VHF) and did not hear anyone switch over. This went on for about 20 minutes and went silent. Does anyone know what this frequency is? Training maybe?

Yes that is a training frequency. Why they do it live on the air IDK, but I'm sure there is a good reason for it.
Bob

 

[KCA6YU]

Thats approach Charlie... 326.2000 Nellis AFB Single Frequency Approach ("Charlie").
Best source of mil air frequency info is Area 51 - Dreamland Resort on the left of the page click "Radio Scanner".

 

[afchev]

Thats approach Charlie... 326.2000 Nellis AFB Single Frequency Approach ("Charlie").
Best source of mil air frequency info is Area 51 - Dreamland Resort on the left of the page click "Radio Scanner".

You know, I didnt even think to check Joergs website. Good call.

 

[gariac]

I have a short list of verified frequencies. Most are pulled from government documents. I scraped an IRAC that the government attic website posted from a FOIA request. It's a pretty good list with minimal nonsense. You don't want to scan too many channels for mil air due to the brevity of the traffic.

There are four single frequency approach frequencies.

https://inplanesight.org/nellis_frequency_list.html

The reference documents are on this page:

https://inplanesight.org/nellis.html