Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2017

[Mark]

1546 local T-BIRD 11 with Atlantic City apch 327.125 6 miles in trail landing KACY I assume.
Tomorrow the A/C airshow on the beach.
T-BIRD 14 Dover C-17 07-7175 coming East from Nellis.

 

[freqhopping]

What is this? Has a civilian reg. Looks like N85PA which isn't valid.

Caught it departing Oceana right after I stopped to watch departure for awhile. Right after this were two VMAQ-2 EA-6Bs and then lots of F-18s including one from VFC-12 with the aggressor paint job.


Also saw a Pilatus PC-12 land. Couldn't make out the callsign.


Later had F-18s passing overhead RTB Oceana while out shooting clay pidgeons in my bro-in-law's backyard.
And there goes another one. They were active at Fentress last night.

 

[nyair1]

A few years ago, I got turned around at McGuire's gate for having a scanner. I even tried to argue the point that it wasn't on the "banned items list". But they didn't want to know anything. I had to bring it back to my truck and then return.

08/14/17- On a different note, the Trump CAP fighters have changed. This morning it's SLAM 01/02. And they're using the AMC freq 349.4 as an interplane.

Probably MA f15's. They use that freq for a/a sometimes.

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[Mark]

What is this? Has a civilian reg. Looks like N85PA which isn't valid.

Caught it departing Oceana right after I stopped to watch departure for awhile. Right after this were two VMAQ-2 EA-6Bs and then lots of F-18s including one from VFC-12 with the aggressor paint job.
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Seems to be Phoenix Air N185PA Grumman G-159 an oldie.
. FAA Registry - Aircraft - N-Number Inquiry

N185PA In from Cartersville..

Pic matches..
Tail N185PA
Couple equipment bubble attachments underneath fuselage.Ground snooper test bed?

 

[Tech792]

Probably MA f15's. They use that freq for a/a sometimes.

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Tonight's NOBLE crew was the Barnes boys....they just RTB'd direct Deer Park, Barnes.
Interplane 259.9

 

[mdmonitor]

Pic of Under Armour helo at Georgetown

 

[mdmonitor]

See What Happens When A Plane Violates Presidential Airspace

https://youtu.be/IgL5jOypOQ8

 

[BM82557]

See What Happens When A Plane Violates Presidential Airspace

https://youtu.be/IgL5jOypOQ8

I miss the days when things were more active around Camp David.

 

[freqhopping]

I'm at Summit Point Raceway in WV for the weekend. Yesterday around 5:30-6:00pm a flight of three (or maybe fourth trailing the rest) VH-3Ds and two VH-60s flew over heading to the southwest. Never seen anything like that before. Something going on that I missed hearing about?

 

[Mark]

NASA will be running two WB-57 high altitude planes Monday for the Eclipse..
Should be able to track them here on Flightaware..
Aircraft Type

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_B-57_Canberra

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/b-57_feature.html

 

[fredva]

I'm at Summit Point Raceway in WV for the weekend. Yesterday around 5:30-6:00pm a flight of three (or maybe fourth trailing the rest) VH-3Ds and two VH-60s flew over heading to the southwest. Never seen anything like that before. Something going on that I missed hearing about?

Would they have been coming from the direction of Camp David? I know there was a high-level meeting there on Friday regarding Afghanistan strategy. Where the copters were headed, I don't know.

 

[freqhopping]

Would they have been coming from the direction of Camp David? I know there was a high-level meeting there on Friday regarding Afghanistan strategy. Where the copters were headed, I don't know.

Yeah. The direction they were heading seems to match a 224 degree heading from Camp David.

 

[freqhopping]

Some people have insisted there are really only two C-32Bs that switch around mode-s hex and tail numbers. I haven't been one to agree and here is solid proof from around noon today. :lol: I also "saw" 98-6006 AE0438 on the 18th on what looked like a Crestview > McGuire route around midnight.

 

[Mark]

Some people have insisted there are really only two C-32Bs that switch around mode-s hex and tail numbers. I haven't been one to agree and here is solid proof from around noon today. :lol: I also "saw" 98-6006 AE0438 on the 18th on what looked like a Crestview > McGuire route around midnight.

C-32 98-6006 went East Sunday morn last logged Israel today as RCH 587.
Heard myself on ATC Northeast bound from Andrews as RCH587.

The two McGuire C-32's 00-9001 and 02-4452 of the 150th SOS are pretty consistent.

C-32's 02-5001,99-6143 and 98-6006 seem to bounce around between stations at Eglin and Pope AFB and rumored to tail swap sometimes between those 3.

99-6143 has not been logged since May down Eglin way.. Maybe getting overhauled.

 

[BM82557]

Camp David : 8/25 - 8/27 TFR

7/8487 NOTAM Details

Effective Date(s):
From August 25, 2017 at 1900 UTC (August 25, 2017 at 1500 EDT)
To August 27, 2017 at 1930 UTC (August 27, 2017 at 1530 EDT)

 

[mdmonitor]

7/8487 NOTAM Details

Effective Date(s):
From August 25, 2017 at 1900 UTC (August 25, 2017 at 1500 EDT)
To August 27, 2017 at 1930 UTC (August 27, 2017 at 1530 EDT)

I'm surprised he's going back there. He's made it well known that the thinks Camp David is a "dump"

Maybe they are going to come up with a North Korea Strategy there---after all it worked so well for Afghanistan. Or maybe a plan to have our Navy not bump into other vessels.

 

[Mark]

I'm surprised he's going back there. He's made it well known that the thinks Camp David is a "dump"

Maybe they are going to come up with a North Korea Strategy there---after all it worked so well for Afghanistan. Or maybe a plan to have our Navy not bump into other vessels.

Maybe White House still getting work done..Gonna be a great wx weekend out there and here.
I thought sometime during Naval Academy training navigation and ship avoidance was in there somewhere... Guess not.

 

[mdmonitor]

Maybe White House still getting work done..Gonna be a great wx weekend out there and here.
I thought sometime during Naval Academy training navigation and ship avoidance was in there somewhere... Guess not.[/QUOTE

Mark,

I guess you're right. All that work with the YP (Yard Boats) out in Annapolis Harbor just doesn't translate well out in the real world with big ships.

Personally, I think they just rely TOO MUCH on technology and don't do enough human navigation

That's just me talking---I was in the USAF so what do I know about ships

 

[freqhopping]

Another shot from Oceana last week.

 

[Mark]

Nice VMAQ-2 Growler.. Not many left flying these days.. Soon to be retired?

Dover AFB airshow this weekend so may start catching some visitors today.
B-1 on sched for static display but many times they don't make it due to busy schedule and
shortages etc. B-2 flyover Saturday.
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