Milair Can get exciting

[n4voxgill]

Al Stern posted this today:

Something is definitely going on at Avon Park. . .some exercise or prep for
deployment. It has been one of the busiest three-day periods I have every
heard at Avon. Multiple FACs (JTACs) on the ground, and many many A-10s and
F-16s; tankers too of course. They have been starting early in the morning and
continuing until midnight, with no letup. Comms are wonderful: air-ground FACs,
air-air, MisReps, AAR. . . the whole gamut. Seems like multiple ASOS units
involved too.

I am pretty sure, but not certain that the A-10s are MI-ANG birds; the
callsign and freqs suggest it, but I am still trying to confirm.

Here's your scorecard to follow the action:

ACFT
Akula F-16 (Homestead ARB)
Backy KC-135 (Seymour Johnson AFB)
Battle A-10 (MI-ANG?; RTB MacDill)
Cannon A-10 (MI-ANG?; RTB MacDill)
Chief F-15E (Seymour Johnson AFB)
First F-15 (Langley): RTB Homestead.
Hog A-10 (MI-ANG?; RTB MacDill)
Kanza KC-135 (McConnell AFB)
Mace F-16CJ (SC-ANG, McEntire ANGS)
Mako F-16 (Homestead ARB)
Shark F-16 (Homestead ARB)
Spad F-16s (RTB MacDill)
Spooky AC-130U (Hurlburt)
Sten A-10 (MI-ANG?; RTB MacDill)
Tusker A-10 (MI-ANG?; RTB MacDill)
Viper F-16

JTACs (FACs)
Bulldog
Crowbar
Gamma Ray
Iron Cross
Sabre
Stryker 22, 26
Uniform 01
Whiskey 99

Freqs:
125.125 MACE Air-air.
126.525 Miami Ctr (MacDill RTBs)
127.200 Miami Ctr.
138.050 Air-air.
138.125 MAKO Air-air.
139.800 SHARK Air-air.
140.075 Air-air.
140.200 Air-air.
141.450 Air-air.
141.900 AKULA Air-air.
142.600 Air-air.
143.625 STEN Air-air.
238.900 BACKY AARs Boom
256.300 CHIEF, SPOOKY w Battle 65 (FAC-A)
257.100 CANNONs w Crowbar (MisReps).
264.625 Avon; SPADs w Uniform 01.
273.550 Jax Ctr (CHIEFs RTB to Seymour Johnson).
278.325 IDd by SPAD 35 as "North Primary."
281.200 CANNONs & HOGs w Sabre; TUSKERs w Stryker & Bulldog; MACEs w Bulldog.
285.500 Miami Ctr (Homestead RTBs).
285.725 Avon; JTAC Iron Cross.
292.200 Avon Park Bombing Range; TUSKERs w Stryker.
293.225 Miami Ctr.
300.125 CHIEFs Air-air.
307.000 Orlando Appr (to/fr MacDill)
311.000 MacDill Lightning Ops.
317.400 Palm Beach Appr (Homestead RTBs)
319.000 Miami Ctr.
323.100 Miami Ctr.

346.250 Jax Ctr (CHIEFs RTB to Seymour Johnson).

349.000 Miami Ctr.

AL STERN Satellite Beach FL (28-11N 80-36W) monitoring

 

[DaveNF2G]

When I was looking for tornado coverage last night for central Texas, I happened across an announcement that Dyess is about to have a deployment to Asia. IIRC, that's a B-1 bomber base.

 

[CLB]

There's a CONUS exercise going on right now.

Trust me...I'm getting Hornets, Hogs, Black/ Seahawks, Pave Low's, all the "T" aircraft across the board....everything you can think of on my ramp this week.

Drinking all my damn fuel too.

 

[BMT]

With the carrier Ike off the coast and Avon Park Range hot, I'm getting about 100 active freqs a day.

BMT

 

[VernM]

Al and others. "Hog" is an Arkansas National Guard call. Home base is Ft. Smith. (Good to find you active. It's been a while!!)

 

[VintageJon]

Hum, nothing here but saw an F-15 on approach to San Antone when driving in today.
(Didn't have scanner with me.... but it's the 1st F-15 I've observed down there... Could have been bound for Randolf by the direstion...)

-Jon

 

[TeRayCodA]

Exciting? Wait until you hear an F-16 declare an "In Flight Emergency"(No drill BTW) for a bird strike in the intake at take-off.

Or,a B-1 that had hung ordinance,that did not release over the range,declaring emergency,returning to base.

Or, a few months ago,I listened to a flight of three F-16's (TUL ANG) that simultaneously got hit by lightning while over the Eureka MOA.
- Keep listening,you'll never know what you'll hear!

 

[Declared_Hostile]

Heard mid air collision between two F-16s. One crashed (pilot ejected and was ok) and the other lost a wingtip and IFEd home. Along with another lawn darting episode which I caught which was was right up there in terms of intense. An F-16 flame out and emergency civvy airport divert was pretty exciting too.

Never know what you will hear.