Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2022

[jaymatt1978]

UGH! Been at the radio all afternoon!! Can't believe I missed them!!

1615- Satan 21 flt working ZDC Cape Charles (236.825) then push to button #7 (ZDC Sea Isle 285.4)

 

[Mark]

1515 local See on ADSB a TORCH-34 Buff FL250 coming East thru Indiana just Northwest of Louisville and came out of Edwards California.
Likely two of them? They like going in pairs. Maybe they will buzz the Naval Acadamy or Niagara Falls

Looks like TORCH-34 hit bombing range or did odd low level circles in Ohio West of Columbus and headed back West via same course.

 

[ezdropper]

1520- Blues used mostly 237.8 for their practice, but also used 275.35 & 284.25.

Also heard Blues on 255.2 and 305.5

 

[Mark]

Looks like TORCH-34 hit bombing range or did odd low level circles in Ohio West of Columbus and headed back West via same course.

BTW that tail TORCH-34 showed as #60-0036 (AE56EA) which belongs to the 412th TW at Edwards AFB.
Very rare out East here so who knows why it had to cross 3/4 of the US to do whatever.. Maybe Edwards will release news about it someday.
Vid of this same tail testing a couple years ago at Edwards.Clean looking machine!
B52 ARRW Hypersonic evaluation test at Edwards Air Force Base 12 JUN 2019 - YouTube

Minot B-52 #60-0023 was busy just across border in Manitoba Canada today just West of Winnipeg on the racetrack.

 

[wbagley]

TORCH 34 held for several minutes apparently to make a time constraint for the single low pass across Wright-Patterson AFB and then turned and climbed to FL 280 for the flight home.

 

[Mark]

TORCH 34 held for several minutes apparently to make a time constraint for the single low pass across Wright-Patterson AFB and then turned and climbed to FL 280 for the flight home.

So this was some type of Wright Pat flyover salute perhaps? Impressive.

 

[BM82557]

fyi --

63-Year-Old Retired Russian Fighter Pilot Shot Down In Su-25 Over Ukraine

 

[RaleighGuy]

TFR issued for holiday weekend in Wilmington

Effective Date(s):
		From May 27, 2022 at 1700 UTC (May 27, 2022 at 1300 EDT)
		To May 30, 2022 at 1400 UTC (May 30, 2022 at 1000 EDT)

2/9198 NOTAM Details

 

[jsoergel]

So this was some type of Wright Pat flyover salute perhaps? Impressive.

Went directly over AFMC HQ and was holding for timing with Patterson Tower. Appears to have been for the employees there. Also had a B-2 visit last week, perhaps for the same sort of event.

 

[mdmonitor]

Panel unveils nine Army base name recommendations

The commission is charged with renaming bases whose names currently honor Confederate leaders.

www.armytimes.com

 

[mdmonitor]

VIP Movement Summary 24 May

SAM 141 I(C-37 # 11-0550) FT Bragg-ADW
SAM 144 (C-37 # 18-1947) ADW-Colorado Springs
SAM 069 (C-37 # 06-0500) ADW-Trenton NJ-ADW

 

[mdmonitor]

0930- Loki 82 (E-4B # 73-1676 55th ACW) inbound to ADW? At 0940 he's still a FL300 turning north towards Frederick MD. Maybe one of those Continuity of Government (COG) exercises where they pair up for work with one of the special C-32s.

 

[RaleighGuy]

Panel unveils nine Army base name recommendations

The commission is charged with renaming bases whose names currently honor Confederate leaders.

www.armytimes.com

News reports say that it may be another year or more before changes will actually take place once approved.

 

[freqhopping]

MACE85? contacted MAINSAIL on 8992 and requested message traffic. MAINSAIL just passed some short message. MAINSAIL was a female voice, weak signal.

 

[jaymatt1978]

1129 NOBLE 11 on ZDC18 DuPont 307.2500

 

[wbagley]

For those of us who feed ADS-B data to FlightRadar24 and other tracking networks with homemade receivers, FR24 wants us to turn off MLAT:

Disable MLAT if sharing with other networks
Today, 12:52
This only relates to volunteer receivers and NOT Flightradar24 equipment.
No action needed if you have receiver provided by Flightradar24.

Hi guys,

As a lot of you have seen, we sent out an email requesting that MLAT be disabled if sharing with other networks.
There is a lot of confusion revolving around this so this post is to add a little clarity.
If you are sharing with other networks ie. FlightAware, Radarbox, ADS-B Exchange etc please follow the below guide:
Please disable MLAT on either your fr24feed.ini configuration file.

Open Command Prompt (windows) or Terminal (MacOS/Linux) and enter the following.
ssh receiver@ipaddress
Once you are at the command line,
sudo nano /etc/fr24feed.ini
receiver="avr-tcp"
fr24key=" "
host="127.0.0.1:30002"
bs="no"
raw="no"
logmode="1"
logpath="/var/log/fr24feed"
mlat="no"
mlat-without-gps="no"
Or on the Web UI
http:// your receivers IP address:8754
ie. 192.168.123.456:8754

As per the initial email,

We write to you with important information concerning the set-up of your receiver.

Firstly, we would like to thank you for your continued support as a volunteer feeder. We depend on volunteers such as yourself for ADS-B data from around the world and your data feed is much appreciated by the Flightradar24 community.
Important information

If you intend to share data to networks alongside Flightradar24, in your Flightradar24 receiver please disable MLAT to the following settings: MLAT=“no”and MLAT-without-gps=“no”. This is to ensure the quality of the data we receive and use and to reduce incompatibility with other services.

Thanks,
Flightradar24 Team

Disable MLAT if sharing with other networks - Flightradar24 Forum

 

[RaleighGuy]

For those of us who feed ADS-B data to FlightRadar24 and other tracking networks with homemade receivers, FR24 wants us to turn off MLAT:

Yes that email went out to all FR24 feeders.

 

[wbagley]

Yes that email went out to all FR24 feeders.

As they clarified, only folks with non-FR24 receivers need to turn off MLAT.

For those of us who feed ADS-B data to FlightRadar24 and other tracking networks with homemade receivers, FR24 wants us to turn off MLAT:

Disable MLAT if sharing with other networks
Today, 12:52
This only relates to volunteer receivers and NOT Flightradar24 equipment.
No action needed if you have receiver provided by Flightradar24.

Hi guys,

As a lot of you have seen, we sent out an email requesting that MLAT be disabled if sharing with other networks.
There is a lot of confusion revolving around this so this post is to add a little clarity.

 

[JetWash]

ADSB-X Showing VMBA10 FAT ALBERT doing repeated runs at Annapolis...some as low as 300 feet AGL. At one point above the intersection of Ritchie highway and route 450 the track shows they were at 175 feet. If you didn't know better, you'd think they were on strafing runs!

 

[freqhopping]

ADSB-X Showing VMBA10 FAT ALBERT doing repeated runs at Annapolis...some as low as 300 feet AGL. At one point above the intersection of Ritchie highway and route 450 the track shows they were at 175 feet. If you didn't know better, you'd think they were on strafing runs!

Add about 300ft to that and you'll have the true altitude.