Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2020

[RichardKramer]

Ruppe 28 (E-6B) near Williamsport PA burning 325.4 heading NE; nothing heard on the sidebands.

Rich - N3VMY - KAG0096

 

[Mark]

Dover E-6 detachment.. Noticed again E-6B 164388 RUPPE28 off Dover then offshore for work.
There must be a VQ-4 detachment there as you don't fly these old birds multiple times from same
base without some qualified ground support. Bussing them in from Pax River doesn't add up either.
Travis has long had VQ-3 detachment from Tinker but they long had their own section and hangar on base.
Thinking Dover must have a temp hangar area for the E-6B's. May become permanent addition in future?
BTW off Travis UNTIL28 E-6B 164388,Dover RUPPE28.. Rare coincidence in callsign numbers.

 

[maus92]

Thanks for the link. I don't know why Sevilla just doesn't have its own FIR, Politics probably ?

I never thought about the politics angle (I don't know much about their politics other than their are historical factions I thought it might be due to technology infrastructure / the ATC "concessionaire" ENAIRE, and their corporate structure.

 

[ka3jjz]

Thanks to N1GAW in the military monitoring forum, I have captured the latest AP1A and B, along with the Eastern route charts, to my Google drive. The files are in a 13 MB zip file, and are found here (I hope I copied this right)...

Milcom Dec2020.zip

drive.google.com

Please see if you can download and unzip them (WinZip and the free 7 Zip should work fine). If so then I can put the link into the Delmarva wiki

Tanks...Mike

 

[RaleighGuy]

Thanks to N1GAW in the military monitoring forum, I have captured the latest AP1A and B, along with the Eastern route charts, to my Google drive. The files are in a 13 MB zip file, and are found here (I hope I copied this right)...

Milcom Dec2020.zip

drive.google.com

Please see if you can download and unzip them (WinZip and the free 7 Zip should work fine). If so then I can put the link into the Delmarva wiki

Tanks...Mike

Why not use my dropbox link I've had in the post for awhile.

 

[ka3jjz]

Because I have lots of room in my Google Drive; I don't hardly use it at all. Might as well use it for something....Mike

 

[ka3jjz]

As we are not allowed to cross post, if you wish to use N1GAW's dropbox, here's the link

Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

Mike

 

[RaleighGuy]

As we are not allowed to cross post, if you wish to use N1GAW's dropbox, here's the link

Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

Mike

Which also have older charts and other AP manuals, the last versions before they stopped being publicly available

 

[RaleighGuy]

HMX-1 update and nice list of the aircraft

VH-92A headed for IOC in July 2021

 

[mdmonitor]

Guys,

Earlier this summer the local power company installed a new set of power lines about 50 yards behind my house. ever since then I've had lousy reception on my Bose Wave radio (in FM mode). Stations that used to be clear are now weak & scratchy.

So I did some research and on Amazon found the Monarch AM/FM?DAB indoor antenna. It was supposedly invented by a NASA engineer. It's a neat little thing. It's a ribbon antenna about 18 ins long and about 3 ins wide. It's covered in plastic and is very thin so it fits any space well.

I was curious and hooked it up to m y RS-2045 which I usually have hooked up to my disone up in this attic. It's designed to enhance FM radio reception and claims it has a 60 miles range. I was pleasantly surprised that the Monarch which is just laying on my desk is picking up VHF ATC aircraft traffic over 100 miles away and just as clear as my discone.

For anyone with limited space, especially in an apartment/townhouse this would make a great little antenna. Would be great for travelling, vacations etc. It has sticky tape attached so you could stick it on a wall or on a window. It comes with 15 ft of coax which has an F connector and a couple of adapters.

Best of all it only costs $20 on Amazon.

 

[mdmonitor]

1000-Axeman flt ( 4 X A-10Cs 104th FS MD ANG ) off Martin State working ZDC Swann (360.7)

 

[mdmonitor]

Guys,

This morning noticed that the ZDC Swann (134.5) controller is also controlling ZDC Woodstown (125.45) & ZDC Patuxent (133.9)

 

[mdmonitor]

1025- Tunisian 74 (C-130 Tunisian AF) land art ADW. Departed from BWI.

 

[mdmonitor]

1145- Hoser 11 flt (KC-10s # 63-8029 AE05AC & # 63-8040 AE0674) off WRI heading southwest. Working ZDC Pinion (133.975) then ZDC Montebello (121.675)

1148- Terra 96 (C-32 # 02-4452 AE0449 150th SOS NJ ANG) off WRI heading southwest. Working ZDC Linden (133.55).

 

[KC4PSR]

1208- Flight of 3 T6s just went over my house flying NE out of Hampton Roads executive airport in Chesapeake, VA. ADS-B shows only one, N1364J.
Registration shows this owner as SNJ-2 Corporation, i.e. the Geico skytypers. Must be returning home to Farmingdale, NY from yesterday's show in Ft. Lauderdale.

 

[TerryPavlick]

1208- Flight of 3 T6s just went over my house flying NE out of Hampton Roads executive airport in Chesapeake, VA. ADS-B shows only one, N1364J.
Registration shows this owner as SNJ-2 Corporation, i.e. the Geico skytypers. Must be returning home to Farmingdale, NY from yesterday's show in Ft. Lauderdale.

Using 123.425 air/air

 

[mdmonitor]

1420- ADS-B showing another MC-12 (# 12-00278 AE53FC) on the ground at Hagerstown. Ident showing as TEST5678

1428- Team 11 (KC-10 # 79-1949 AE01DE), just off the tip of southern NJ, working Brickyard CP (134.1) w/inbound msg.

1438- Axeman 1 flt (A-10Cs 104th FS MD ANG) working Dulles approach (254.25) cleared direct to Martin State. Coming back from working at the Evers MOA.

 

[mdmonitor]

U.S. Air Force B-52H bombers conduct short-notice mission into Middle East

The U.S. Air Force announced that four B-52H Stratofortresses bombers assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing, Minot Air Force Base, N.D., conducted a short-notice, long-range mission into the Middle East on Nov. 21 to deter aggression and reassure U.S. partners and allies. In a release, U.S. Central...

defence-blog.com

 

[jsoergel]

Here's the rest of the flight all the way into Minot. Picks up about an hour after the handoff from the previous recording. A little more eventful, WARBIRD 2 becomes a stealth bomber when its transponder apparently fails and then declares an emergency on the descent. At that point with ZMP only the ATC side could be heard and I couldn't quite make out what the problem was. Sounded like she read back "a small br..f.. (?) issue". At 5:05 on the recording.

WARBIRD 1 - 2

Listen to WARBIRD 1 - 2 by Tanker Tracker #np on #SoundCloud

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WARBIRD 03 and WARBIRD 04 both did a low approach at KFFO, then direct to FWA. Assume they must have been the spares.

 

[Chris52]

Guys,

Earlier this summer the local power company installed a new set of power lines about 50 yards behind my house. ever since then I've had lousy reception on my Bose Wave radio (in FM mode). Stations that used to be clear are now weak & scratchy.

So I did some research and on Amazon found the Monarch AM/FM?DAB indoor antenna. It was supposedly invented by a NASA engineer. It's a neat little thing. It's a ribbon antenna about 18 ins long and about 3 ins wide. It's covered in plastic and is very thin so it fits any space well.

I was curious and hooked it up to m y RS-2045 which I usually have hooked up to my disone up in this attic. It's designed to enhance FM radio reception and claims it has a 60 miles range. I was pleasantly surprised that the Monarch which is just laying on my desk is picking up VHF ATC aircraft traffic over 100 miles away and just as clear as my discone.

For anyone with limited space, especially in an apartment/townhouse this would make a great little antenna. Would be great for travelling, vacations etc. It has sticky tape attached so you could stick it on a wall or on a window. It comes with 15 ft of coax which has an F connector and a couple of adapters.

Best of all it only costs $20 on Amazon.

Could you please post the link to this ?