Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2021

[Mark]

IDd as a King Air B350. Callsign CAVE 14. Audio working Potomac 126.825 (LiveATC).

Cheers Airscan as your talent for Live ATC is amazing.You sure know that stuff and maps
Checking history again that we now know the callsign confirmed by flightaware CAVE-14 doing same at Hagerstown 4 months ago
and ID's as Super King Air 350.. A L-3 and others favorite snoop plane.. In flight graph they sure were playing with the throttles but notice
at top of counterclockwise circles is when speed really dropped.. Strong Westerly winds make it drop 60 mph and speed up at bottom?
CAVE14 Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

 

[simplec6]

IDd as a King Air B350. Callsign CAVE 14. Audio working Potomac 126.825 (LiveATC).

AirScan, your prowess on having the right recordings, seemingly at your fingertips, is amazing. Do you have a particular setup you use for recording activity and easily finding good activity (non civilian air) or do you somehow actively monitor your scanners and feeds throughout most of the day and take copious notes?

I currently use ProScan recording across a few scanners, and it does the job, but on a lot of the TRACON frequencies I get a bunch of non MilAir traffic that I don't find interesting at all. Just wondering if I'm missing out on some better way to use LiveATC or something else?

 

[Mark]

1930 local RCH-872 C-17 #99-0167 3Wg AK ANG in from Anchorage area calling into McGuire CP 237.150 req
parking and 150k fuel and any upload info... Long way from home. Parking Mike-3 and 18 pallets on readback.

AR-20NE Res Thursday 1300z-1630z FL220-240 prob for the E-4B on Potus Euro trip.Will prob do usual multi tanker topoff.
Usually takes 80k-100k each from two tankers.. Big fuel tanks

 

[AirScan]

Just wondering if I'm missing out on some better way to use LiveATC or something else?

I'm mostly using the LiveATC archives, I rarely listen live. When looking for audio from an aircraft of interest I use Audacity to remove the silence from the archive (truncate silence option). This will typically reduce the 30 minute archive down to 5-10 minutes.

For ATC sector familiarization I put together my own sector charts. Below is a partial sample covering the high altitude sectors over the DC area. I'm still working on a Low Altitude and UHF version. If you want to see the full chart I've posted it here over at LiveATC.

 

[RaleighGuy]

AF1 Travels, with departure Thursday and return Wednesday...

12:35 PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart Joint Base Andrews en route Rome, Italy

CEST

2:10 AM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, Rome, Italy

Monday, November 1, 2021
The President will travel to Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Tuesday, November 2, 2021
The President will depart Glasgow, United Kingdom en route Washington, DC.

Wednesday, November 3, 2021
The President will arrive in Washington, DC.

 

[Mark]

CNN says Potus delaying departure to work on Congress and give another speech.

 

[mdmonitor]

0900- Weekly Falcon Virgo exercise underway. Brave flt (2 X F-16s 121st FS DC ANG) off ADW heading for PAX area to work with CAP 1857 (Cessna 172 N257CP) & CAP 1832 (Cessna 172 N732CP). Freqs; 119.275/120.05/281.4/305.2

 

[mdmonitor]

Guys,

Checking AIRNAV this morning and found that they are listing 141.55/349.4 as ADW CP freq. I haven't heard anyone using 349.4 to contact ADW but did hear one acft last week call ADW CP on 378.1 w/no response.

 

[mdmonitor]

0920- Unis DHS acft working on 136.275.

0925- Interesting flt: CG 2704 (HC-27J #2704 CGAS Elizabeth City NC) flew a low level (below 4000 ft) from E. City north ending up in Frederick MD.

0930- SAM 572 (C-37 # 18-1947) inbound to ADW. Departed from Boston MA. OOPS !!, I was mistaken, SAM 572 is now over Western PA heading west at FL400.

0950- Steel 71 (KC-135R # 58-0072 171st ARW Pittsburgh) off Pittsburgh heading west. Working ZOB Imperial (132.125)>ZNY Harrisburg (133.475).

 

[mdmonitor]

0950- Steel 71 (KC-135R # 58-0072 171st ARW Pittsburgh) off Pittsburgh heading east. Working ZOB Imperial (132.125)>ZNY Harrisburg (133.475).>ZNY Westminster (134.325)>ZDC Woodstown (125.45)>ZDC Coyle (121.025). Heading offshore towards W107 or AR777

 

[mdmonitor]

1044- Nighthawk acft (HMX-1) working HMX-1 Ops (277.175) advising they are 5 mins out and will need gas.

1100- Cord 64 (E-6B # 164387VQ-4 Det) off PAX heading northeast. Working ZDC Coyle (121.025).

1105- Pioneer 18 (P-8 # 167956 VX-1) off PAX heading south. Working ZDC Patuxent (133.9).

 

[mdmonitor]

1130- ADS-B showing Maine 85 (KC-135R # 58-0107 ME ANG Bangor) & Topcat 4 (KC-135R # 58-0010 108th ARW NJ ANG) both working out in AR636. Working Giantkiller (118.125)

1132- Force 09 (KC-10 # 85-0034) heading north. Working ZDC Blackstone (127.75)>ZDC Patuxent (133.9)

 

[CYUL]

I have some A2A activity on 259.000 right now. Callsigns: Wicked1, Wicked2 and Wicked3. Wicked1 reported a right engine issue, RTB

Wicked1 running checklist.

SLAM01 and 02 called but not heard: "push 6 Charlie"

 

[mdmonitor]

1245- Score 13 (E-2D # 167929 VX-20) working on test discrete (375.6)

 

[BM82557]

Air Force 1, 82-8000, out of Andrews at 12:58 local, heading north east, currently over New Jersey

 

[mdmonitor]

1349- Hearing two acft (no calls) working on 341.75 then QSY to ZNY Milton (269.1) asking for a VHF freq. ADS-B showing Pittsburgh KC-135Rs # 59-1467 & 59-1468 flying in formation over Wilkes-Barre PA.

1352- Grim 99 (E-4B # 74-0847) off ADW turning & heading northeast. Appropriately named acft. Working ZDC Woodstown (125.45) cleared direct to Robinsville.

 

[mdmonitor]

1349- Hearing two acft (no calls) working on 341.75 then QSY to ZNY Milton (269.1) asking for a VHF freq. ADS-B showing Pittsburgh KC-135Rs # 59-1467 & 59-1468 flying in formation over Wilkes-Barre PA. At 1424 both acft are still in formation, just east of Providence RI heading out over Cape Cod.

 

[mdmonitor]

1528- Acft 161 (unid) working w/Vader Ctl on Northrop discrete (123.225). Acft 161 advises that they are receiving " music from the beach" and other signal on all 14 chnls.

 

[TerryPavlick]

1528- Acft 161 (unid) working w/Vader Ctl on Northrop discrete (123.225). Acft 161 advises that they are receiving " music from the beach" and other signal on all 14 chnls.

N161PR ADS-B Exchange - tracking thousands of aircraft DC3

Well at least they are listening to the music and not the baby monitors !!

 

[mdmonitor]

N161PR ADS-B Exchange - tracking thousands of aircraft DC3

Well at least they are listening to the music and not the baby monitors !!

Terry

Thanks for the tie up. DC-3??? That's a venerable old bird. Didn't know many of those were still flying. When I was in USAF in Korea in 1960-61, we were flying DC-3s as signals collection platforms.