Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2020

[mdmonitor]

1040- ADS-B showing Rhody 36 (C-130J # 095-1436 AE0143E RI ANG Quonset Point RI) departing Quonset Point and heading down East Coast at FL200. Rhody 36 then did a couple of orbits off Atlantic City and now appears to be heading back to RI. Looks like some sort of inflight issue curtailed the mission.

 

[mdmonitor]

1313- Advice 03 (KC-135R # 63-8029 AE05AC) off WRI heading southwest. Working ZNY Harrisburg (133.475) & ZDC Pinion (133.975).

 

[Mark]

Advice 03... hmm.
Potus schedule shows Camp David at 3pm today no press.
Could be a weekend of Camp CAP's coming up.

 

[IQ_imbalance]

NOBLE 2-1 and NOBLE 2-2 are up w/ Advice 03

 

[Mark]

NOBLE 2-1 and NOBLE 2-2 are up w/ Advice 03

Hearing some weak coms on 247.050 and Guard Dog 350.250 and Huntress 260.900.

 

[mdmonitor]

NOBLE 2-1 and NOBLE 2-2 are up w/ Advice 03

1345- Noble 21 on DC CAP discrete (260.9) w/Advice 03 who is now over Frederick MD.

 

[IQ_imbalance]

LOL...one of the Noble flight reported a contact "unknown, assumed friendly".

 

[mdmonitor]

1345- Noble 21 on DC CAP discrete (260.9) w/Advice 03 who is now over Frederick MD.

247.05 & 350.25 both active now as well as 260.9. At 1422 Nobles push to Aux 15 (unid)

1410- Sikes 34 (E-6B # 162783 AE0404E VQ-4 Det) off PAX heading south.

1429- Jena 126 (FBI DHC8-400Q N721AL Manassas VA) off of DCA then w/Potomac (118.95) cleared to Montebello.

 

[mdmonitor]

U.S. Navy deploys ‘Fighting Tigers’ to 5th Fleet area of operations

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[mdmonitor]

1553- CAP freqs have gone quiet and Advice 03 no longer showing on ADS-B. POTUS change his mind?

 

[IQ_imbalance]

Not sure...tracked the Park Police helo headed up that way around 1430. I lost Advice 03 on ADSB not long after they arrived on station, though. Heard the CAP a few minutes ago....

Really need to get a laptop to run ProScan....

 

[Mark]

Checking tape 260.9 talking about doing a RTB and clearing out 1625 local
1647 NOBLE 21 says will topoff before rtb.. Guess they are done.Maybe done when it gets dark?
1650 NOBLE 21,22 will go to tanker.
1703 NOBILE 21 to tanker 247.050, see ya next time."NOBLE-21 will clear out low to the South".
1706 NOBLE's A/A 328.500 getting stronger here. Talk about pushing Ctr 360.700?
1712 ADVICE 03 to McGuire on 360.700 ZDC Swann.

 

[Mark]

If you really got some time and are interested in North Atlantic airline coms this old 2012 vid
shows how Shamrock Control sets up aircraft to cross Atlantic Westbound.. Learned a few things like Daily tracks
get changed constantly due to mainly prevailing headwinds etc.
Aircraft altitude change requests get phone lined to Gander to see if it is ok with them etc.
When you got time check it out.. 30W is when Shanwick hands off to Gander and vice versa.
Crossing the NAT - North Atlantic procedures - Shanwick, Gander, Iceland - YouTube

 

[Mark]

2105 local WIDE-28 KC-135 60-0346 coming SE bound climbing up from Michigan.
127Wg Mich ANG.
Looks like a future CAP tanker..

 

[Mark]

2105 local WIDE-28 KC-135 60-0346 coming SE bound climbing up from Michigan.
127Wg Mich ANG.
Looks like a future CAP tanker..

WIDE-28 went SE offshore NC Outerbanks at FL350.. Guess a alert tanker for someone offshore
like a P-8A.. Strange.. Maybe someone working offshore just south of Bermuda.

 

[BM82557]

KC-135 58-0054 AE035B out of Pittsburgh

Nope, staying in the PGH area

 

[Mark]

0725 local NOBLE-01,02 setting up in the CAP on Huntress 260.900
"No tanker so instead of rtb Savannah will land Andrews to refuel"
NOBLE 1 asks if they are gonna get another ADVICE tanker after refueling and reply copy was negative
at this time.
COSMIC 01 flight up now 260.900 from McGuire asking if CAP is cold yet.
NOBLE 01 will hold till COSMIC's arrive. COSMIC says up on Ctr freq 121.050

 

[Mark]

0805 local COSMIC says without tanker can stay about 2 hours.. Thrifty F-16's
0810 KC-10 showing off McGuire 86-0030. I guess tanker help is on the way.
0826 Tanker is ADVICE 99 I think.

 

[vgames15]

I never get traffic on Philly apch 118.350 around here into KILG.
Used to be Philly appch South 119.750 for KILG but that freq seems quiet lately too.
Seems Philly apch 124.350 is the busy freq now.
Back when he was VP if wx was ok AF-2 would do Andrews to KILG and keep below 10k
so Pot appch>Dover appch>Philly appch then KILG tower...

On Marks point 119.75 is the primary freq. for anything coming in or leaving but depending on direction and which configuration philly is using. When they are landing east 128.4 tends to hand off to ILG. 118.350 is usually simulcast with 119.75, when on the field I can hear the controllers on 118.35 as the antenna is on the field and 119.75 I hear the pilots.

 

[mdmonitor]

0842- Tanker on 121.05. ident a Guard Dog freq. Tanker advises they were given 126.55 as Guard Dog Freq. Finally switch to 135.525. Tanker advises they are using Tacan 92Y freq.

0855- SAM 210 (C-37 # 11-0550 AE 4DDD) on approach to ADW. Coming in from Ramstein GE.

0855- Noticed on ADS-B that Advice 05 (KC-135R # 61-0244 AE0264 OH ANG, 121ARW Rickenbacher Int'l Airport Columbus OH ) is on the ground at Columbus OH.

0910- Cosmic 2 idents 121.050 as comm #2. Cosmic 1 advises tanker that they will be off CAP in about an hour.