Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2022

[GriffissSpotter]

Approx 0948 - FAST 51 IFR clearance at Syracuse (KSYR) to Columbus, OH (KCMH)

0958 - FAST 51 departure from KSYR with an unrestricted climb!

 

[mdmonitor]

1000- BAF 652 (Belgian AF A-400 CT-03) inbound to ADW.

1003- Wide 12 working Steel Ops (311.0) w/30-min outcall & inbound msg & write ups.

 

[mdmonitor]

1050- Noble 01 flt heading home. Working ZNY Big Flat (322.4)>ZNY Phillipsburg (306.2).

 

[mdmonitor]

VIP Movement Summary 1 Jul

SAM 393 (C-37 # 06-0500) ADW-Miami
Marine 101 (C-37 # 166378) Cape Canaveral-ADW
SAM 400 (C-32 # 99-0003) Ramstein-ADW
SAM 413 (C-40 # 01-0040) Ramstein-ADW
SAM 448 (C-37 # 18-1942) HIckam AFB HI-ADW

 

[Mark]

1050- Noble 01 flt heading home. Working ZNY Big Flat (322.4)>ZNY Phillipsburg (306.2).

Hearing F-15's A/A 264.850 assume the NOBLE-1 replacements,NOBLE-11 Another regular Mass ANG freq

 

[mdmonitor]

1233- BAF 652 off ADW (118.4/125.63)

 

[mdmonitor]

Guys

Off topic

Saw new Top Gun movie last night. Good movie, but in my opinion not as good as the first one.

I've watched the original Top Gun movie at least 5 times. Not sure I'll do that with this one. Still lots of good flying scenes. Worth the price of the ticket.

 

[wbagley]

A long shot, but if anyone here has an SDR that will tune down to VLF, at 2 pm EDT, 1800Z, E-6B SLOPE 07 appears to be going out to drop a couple of wires and transmit some TACAMO signals soon.

The usual Atlantic TACAMO frequency is 17.8 kHz.

 

[Mark]

Approx 0948 - FAST 51 IFR clearance at Syracuse (KSYR) to Columbus, OH (KCMH)
0958 - FAST 51 departure from KSYR with an unrestricted climb!

FAST-51/HABU01 looking for cooler wx landing in Green Bay now..

 

[mdmonitor]

1535- New nobles inbound to CAP. Working ZNY Flint Hill (290.2)>ZNY Big Flat (322.4)>Potomac TRACON Guard Dog Sector (269.5). Nobles using 259.0 A2A

 

[Mark]

1535- New nobles inbound to CAP. Working ZNY Flint Hill (290.2)>ZNY Big Flat (322.4)>Potomac TRACON Guard Dog Sector (269.5). Nobles using 259.0 A2A

Tankers also switched to WIDE-14 #86-0035 from WIDE-13. WIDE-13 passed along tail number for NOBLE-12 as #86-0158
WIDE-13 inbound McGuire alpha 2 with a couple of writeups. NOBLE-21 flight A/A 259.000
1554 NOBLE-11 flight departing on ZNY 322.400>290.200 ZNY Flint.

There is a KC-10 no callsign #84-0189 RCH-804? at FL280 inbound off Coast of Maine from Prestwick UK.Maybe dragged somebody back across?
Looks headed to the barn at McGuire after two weeks overseas.

Dover's HAGAR-91 C-5M #87-0035 departing Eastbound Fort Libby AAF KFHU at Fort Huachuca AZ. Don't see that destination very often.
Didn't realize that KFHU has 12k x 150 foot concrete runway.Whats an old Army Calvary unit there need such a big runway?

 

[Mark]

Good evening,

The 159FW F-15s were returning from San Juan to New Orleans this evening, but not everything went on as planned ....
CUBE 11 flight diverted to Homestead ARB as one of the F-15s had a landing gear problem and declared
an inflight emergency with Miami center. CUBE 21 as a flight of three continued to New Orleans NAS [KNBG].
BOBBY 61 (58-0035) went to Fairchild AFB and BOBBY 71 ( 58-0069) to MacDill AFB. They were on Coronet South 814.

Just released vid from yesterday shows 4 departures on first wave but one tail #85-0102 does IFE RTB back to San Juan.
Second wave has only 3 tails so assume one stayed behind as a loyal wingman to IFE bird...Prob the Wing Commander.
They will probably catch a MacDill tanker in a couple of days pending repairs on the RTB bird
(HD)F-15 Say Goodbye to San Juan. | Emergency Landing of one of them | San Juan Airport Spotting. - YouTube

 

[RaleighGuy]

AF2 98-0001 headed back to Los Angeles for the holiday weekend. While SAM461 01-0015 which flew from LA to New Orleans is now headed to ADW.

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[wbagley]

AF2 98-0001 headed back to Los Angeles for the holiday weekend. While SAM461 01-0015 which flew from LA to New Orleans is now headed to ADW.

AF2 was in New Orleans for a few hours for a speech and photo op at a diversity female empowerment festival before returning to LAX with 51 SOBs.

On the return to LAX there was apparently a possible AF2 maintenance issue and SAM 461 01-0015 was sent a contingency flight plan to drop into MSY and then head back to LAX. SAM 461 went into holding, à la SAM 46 with AF1, until AF2 was airborne and then continued on to Andrews.

'It only makes sense that the second most-powerful person in the world, who is also the most powerful Black woman in the world, Vice President Kamala Harris join the masses of Black women in attendance at ESSENCE Fest.'

VP Kamala Harris Calls Out States Attacking Both Abortion And Voting Rights At ESSENCE Festival - Essence

 

[Mark]

0650 local Camp CAP up today with NOBLE-1 reporting to Huntress 260.900 of icing conditions
in the North and South parts of the CAP areas...
0656 NOBLE asks tanker 247.050 about coordinating a higher altitude CAP at say FL 28k.
NOBLE's A/A 259.900

A DC area pic from yesterday.. John (@1crazyarchitect) / Twitter

 

[mdmonitor]

0724- Nobles now working ZDC Hagerstown (227.125)

 

[Dutchmil]

Just released vid from yesterday shows 4 departures on first wave but one tail #85-0102 does IFE RTB back to San Juan.
Second wave has only 3 tails so assume one stayed behind as a loyal wingman to IFE bird...Prob the Wing Commander.

Thanks Mark, listened to the LiveATC audio archives and it was CUBE 13 that returned with the IFE.

 

[ra7850]

Did they happen to say what the emergency was? In first departures in the video it looked like one of them was venting fuel out of the left wing.

Robert

 

[mdmonitor]

VIP Movement Summary 2 Jul

SAM 402 (C-37 # 20-1949) ADW-Teteboro NJ-ADW
SAM 290 (C-37 # 18-1947) Caribbean-ADW
SAM 306 (C-37 # 97-0401) Colorado Springs?-ADW
SAM 433 (C-37 # 11-0550) Los Angeles-ADW

 

[freqhopping]

Just tuned in the CAP, sounds like fuel issues. The one tanker left the CAP. NOBLEs say they're down to less than an hour of fuel before they need to RTB.

58-0084 is circling east of Pittsburgh. ??

Did all of them move west?
0846-Just now conducting AR.