Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2022

[mdmonitor]

1305- Eider 36 (C-17 # 04-4137 6th AS) working Quantico Ops (355.3)

Eider 36 off Quantico. Quick offload or upload.

1436- Must've been an offload/drop off since Eider 36 is heading back to McGuire.

 

[mdmonitor]

Yeah I just missed them in person returning down this way at 1345 local again Flt of 4 at FL210 so not sure of freqs except UHF.
SWANN waypoint is on Eastern Shore of Maryland near Rock Hall so seems like they are going to and from Pax River or Langley.
SWANN waypoint | OpenNav

Mark

Around that same time I heard a couple of unid acft working ZNY North Mountain (269.1) & ZNY Flint Hill (290.2). Never did catch a callsign so I didn't post it. May have been these guys coming back from Upstate NY.

 

[Mark]

1445 local calling "MAINSAIL" call on 311.000 kind of weak sounded like "TINHORN".
repeats again at 1448 says also on 11175 so must be dual transmission.
E-6B #164407 MAYOR-28 headed offshore Atlantic ocean down of Va Cape came out of Pax River NAS.

 

[Tech792]

1455- Hearing MD RAVEN A/A 266.6 and WG Range 283.1 active, TIS-B target showing over the range

 

[Mark]

Eider 36 off Quantico. Quick offload or upload.
1436- Must've been an offload/drop off since Eider 36 is heading back to McGuire.

Rgr Ron heard him calling McGuire first on Quantico Ops 355.300 then realized mistake then
over to McGuire CP 134.100 inbound with writeups first alpha 3 then alpha 2.
Earlier was at Wilkes-Barre airport KVAP so guess dropping off Helo that was not needed anyway.

 

[mdmonitor]

1510- ADS-B showing Shep 71 (T-6B # 03-3681Sheppard AFB TX) off Pittsburgh transiting northern part of our area. Had stopped in Pittsburgh earlier this morning.

 

[mdmonitor]

Guys,

It's 100 degrees outside so just sitting around. You know what they say about "idle minds".

I'm wondering if the DEED, VINYL, EIDER callsigns noted with POTUS support flights might be assigned to specific units, i.e. DEED 3rd AS DOV, EIDER 6th AS MCGuire & Vinyl for Charleston AFB SC.

 

[Mark]

Guys,

It's 100 degrees outside so just sitting around. You know what they say about "idle minds".

I'm wondering if the DEED, VINYL, EIDER callsigns noted with POTUS support flights might be assigned to specific units, i.e. DEED 3rd AS DOV, EIDER 6th AS MCGuire & Vinyl for Charleston AFB SC.

Got a VINYL-62 KC-135 #57-1436 TN ANG coming East from Phoenix Az now..
Seen VINYL callsign on C-17's and KC-135's.

Couple of GOLD tankers coming South from Northern California..
GOLD-81 Travis KC-10 #87-0123 and GOLD-91 KC-135 #57-2599 out of Beale AFB
Maybe headed to La La Land or San Diego?

Delaware ANG C-130H #91-1233 spooling up live down in San Juan. SHARK mission?
Plane Spotting at San Juan Airport | LIVE Air Traffic Control Communications - YouTube

 

[mdmonitor]

Guys

Looks like Pietr has come up with a temporary fix.

From his site:

Hi all,

Thanks to adsbexchange.com the old feed is (temporarily) activated again and I can show data on my site again.
As of July 19, the data is visible again.
Temporary means that the old feed has to be replaced by something else. Perhaps through the adsbexchange API.
Hopefully I can achieve the same results with that as with the old feed.

Thanks for all your messages.

VIP Movement Summary 19 Jul

SAM 518 (C-37 # 06-0500) ADW-NYC/NJ-ADW
SAM 602 (C-37 # 20-1941) ADW-San Antonio-ADW
Coast Guard 101 (C-37 # 01) DCA-West Coast??

VIP Movement Summary 20 Jul

Navy 101 (C-37 # 166378) ADW-Hickam
SAM 648 (C-37 # 97-0401) Colorado Springs-ADW
SAM 478 (C-37 # 11-0550) Michigan???-Colorado Springs-ADW
SAM 632 (C-40 # 01-0040) Atlanta-ADW
SAM 603 (C-32 # 98-0002) Detroit-New Haven-ADW

VIP Movement Summary 21 Jul

SAM 411 (C-37 # 20-1949) Colorado Springs-ADW-Hickam HI
SAM 520 (C-37 # 20-1941) Colorado Springs-ADW-???
SAM 648 (C-37 # 94-0401) Colorado Springs-ADW
SAM 322 (C-40 # 01-0015) Japan??-Anchorage-ADW.
SAM 543 (C-40 # 01-0040) West Coast???-ADW
Coast Guard 102 (C-37 # 102) on ground at Laguardia NY

 

[mdmonitor]

Got a VINYL-62 KC-135 #57-1436 TN ANG coming East from Phoenix Az now..
Seen VINYL callsign on C-17's and KC-135's.

Couple of GOLD tankers coming South from Northern California..
GOLD-81 Travis KC-10 #87-0123 and GOLD-91 KC-135 #57-2599 out of Beale AFB
Maybe headed to La La Land or San Diego?

Mark

Thanks

That puts the kabosh on my musings

 

[Mark]

1620 local GOLD-81 doing large loop around Miramar MCAS at FL25k maybe waiting on chicks or GOLD91?
1830 local GOLD-81 turned North for overfly of Catalina Island and now over Santa Monica at same FL25k.
1837 GOLD-91 doing same racetrack at San Diego area at FL31k..

 

[Mark]

1620 local GOLD-81 doing large loop around Miramar MCAS at FL25k maybe waiting on chicks or GOLD91?
1830 local GOLD-81 turned North for overfly of Catalina Island and now over Santa Monica at same FL25k.
1837 GOLD-91 doing same racetrack at San Diego area at FL31k..

Had to run out but checking ADSBX replay GOLD-81 dragged whoever straight up into Canada
seems heading for Alaska.
GOLD-91 dropped its receivers to GOLD-92 KC-135 #63-3502 who also headed NW into Canada.
Guess some Navy folks from Miramar headed North for now.
Checking the baldgeek GOLD-92 headed to PAEI aka Eielson AFB Alaska up near Fairbanks for some 24 hour daylight.

Speaking of Altrav CLEAN-63 KC-135 #62-3578 departed McGuire headed East across the Pond at FL360.

 

[Mark]

GOLD-81 KC-10 inbound Fairbanks/Eielson AFB.

 

[wbagley]

MAFIA 90 and 92, T-6s out of Knoxville, headed in the direction of Charlie West (Charleston, West Virginia) talking air to air on 303.7 at 11 pm EDT.

MAFIA 88, a straggler, has just launched off TYS.

Single engine night cross country. The procedure I was taught in the Navy for engine failure at night in a single engine plane:

ENGINE FAILURE (NIGHT) - SINGLE ENGINE AIRCRAFT

1. Turn on your landing light.

2. If you don't like what you see, turn it back off.

 

[RaleighGuy]

VP Richmond schedule for Saturday & Monday Indianapolis trip advisory.

 

[mdmonitor]

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[mdmonitor]

VIP Movement Summary 22 Jul

SAM 497 (C-37 11-0550) Denver-ADW-West Coast??
SAM 484 (C-32 # 98-0001) Reykjavik-ADW

 

[mdmonitor]

0840- AF2 (C-32 # 98-0002) off ADW.

 

[BM82557]

Fyi --

No Engine, No Fly: Ongoing Propulsion Program Problems Are Grounding F-35s

 

[mdmonitor]

0900- EGY 1113 (Egyptian AF C-130 SU-BAF) off BWI heading east. Saw some of the crew at Costco yesterday then they headed for the Walmart next door. The acft still has that crazy, out-of-whack ADS-B unit.