Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2022

[WatnNY]

Actually callsigns are NICE-23 and NICE-24 the tankers.Sometimes they chat it up A/A on Boom freq 247.050
when trading places.

Thanks, Mark! So 247.050 isn't a CAP freq - it's used for AR?

 

[nodak1crdet3]

Nice catch Chuck.. BTW what airport do the Mil guys stage for this Chicago watershow?
Can't be Ohare can it?

Gary Indiana Airport is where they stage out of.
Chuck.

 

[nodak1crdet3]

That's a PZL-104M Wilga 2000.
This is not the actual aircraft that flew over the golf course. This is what it looks like. Notice the camera ball under the fuselage.
View attachment 126253

 

[nodak1crdet3]

This is the aircraft doing the PGA Tournament. N424HD
I like the extended exhaust pipe.


Chuck in Detroit / NODAK 1

 

[Mark]

Gary Indiana Airport is where they stage out of.
Chuck.

Ok KGYY is the icao.. Thanks.. Thats about 30 miles away from Chicago Waterfront?
A mil visitor DICEY-90? T-38 from Sheppard? DICEY90 Flight Tracking and History 19-Aug-2022 (KXNA-KGYY) - FlightAware
Also Blue Angels Fat Albert making the practice rounds.. VMBA10 Flight Tracking and History 19-Aug-2022 (KGYY-KGYY) - FlightAware

 

[Mark]

NOBLE's setting up their future rtb to Barnes with ZDC 363.000
"Req Ravine (RAV) and DUMKY then Barnes" Sort of headed home via Harrisburg Western swing.

RAV : RAVINE navaid | OpenNav
DUMKY waypoint | OpenNav

2005 local NOBLE flight with ZNY 322.400 then ZNY 338.300 Williamsport

 

[Mark]

Off topic but seems like a fatal stupid aviation accident at Watsonville Cal.
No local tower traffic controller it seems.Those twin engine types really move compared to Cessna 152.
Fatal MID-AIR COLLISION at Watsonville Municipal, CA | #N49931 #N740WJ - YouTube

 

[AirScan]

Off topic but seems like a fatal stupid aviation accident at Watsonville Cal.

Good radar picture with audio at this Link, starts at 2:50.

 

[RaleighGuy]

Saturday travel schedule released...

7:20 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Wilmington, Delaware en route Rehoboth Beach, Brandywine Landing Zone
8:00 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

 

[wbagley]

Off topic but seems like a fatal stupid aviation accident at Watsonville Cal.
No local tower traffic controller it seems.Those twin engine types really move compared to Cessna 152.
Fatal MID-AIR COLLISION at Watsonville Municipal, CA | #N49931 #N740WJ - YouTube

Those little planes are deadly, roughly one person per day killed in the U.S.

Another classic high-wing low-wing midair on final last month in Las Vegas:

Kathryn's Report: Piper PA-46-350P Malibu Mirage JetPROP DLX, N97CX and Cessna 172N Skyhawk, N160RA: Fatal accident occurred July 17, 2022 at North Las Vegas Airport (KVGT), Clark County, Nevada (kathrynsreport.com)

 

[mattl3320]

Hey guys the noble guys have had a very long week. Been hearing them every day this week starting around here at about 4:45Am.

 

[Mark]

Air
Guessing on their location they are probably AAR w/the F-22s working with Bluetail. A couple of the Dooms checked in w/Bluetail announcing they had just come off the tanker.

Seems the GW Bush had good joint exercise down this way this past week.Thanks to all the posters here on this exercise.
Tankers EXXON 1,2 kept busy with them as well. Guess the USS GW is now on her way to the Med to relieve
the USS Harry Truman.Truman crews are probably ready for a break for home.
Langley also had T-38's from new 7th FTS squadron. 7th FTS reactivates at JBLE > Joint Base Langley-Eustis > Article Display (af.mil)


DVIDS - News - George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group Completes Fleet Battle Problem (dvidshub.net)

 

[Mark]

Local CAP starting up with NOBLE-01,02 and tanker NICE-31 #58-0117 from Pittsburgh.
Tanker showed for just a short minute now not showing again mode s.
NOBLE-02 going for initial topoff on usual boom freq 247.050.

The issue of autopilot software came up but NICE-31 says we have older plug-40 software
so we can use it for tanking but newer plug-45 software has the prioblem.

 

[vgames15]

Local CAP starting up with NOBLE-01,02 and tanker NICE-31 #58-0117 from Pittsburgh.
Tanker showed for just a short minute now not showing again mode s.
NOBLE-02 going for initial topoff on usual boom freq 247.050.

Flew over stacked up until Noble 02 broke for the tanker

 

[RichardKramer]

Thanks, Mark! So 247.050 isn't a CAP freq - it's used for AR?

247.050 is the usual CAP refueling freq; so I would say it is a CAP freq.

 

[Tech792]

1118- 2 Barnes birds showing on ADSB off the NJ coast at 9,100 ft, now circling back around over NJ. Looks like they're in a holding pattern on the Monmouth County coast.
1126- Just went over my house at 6,000 ft. Had a good eyeball. Dropping down to 1,800 ft. Guess they were waiting for clearance to go up the Hudson. Now going north up the Hudson River at 1,800 ft on ADSB. A/A was 259.9

 

[Mark]

1118- 2 Barnes birds showing on ADSB off the NJ coast at 9,100 ft, now circling back around over NJ. Looks like they're in a holding pattern on the Monmouth County coast.
1126- Just went over my house at 6,000 ft. Had a good eyeball. Dropping down to 1,800 ft. Guess they were waiting for clearance to go up the Hudson. Now going north up the Hudson River at 1,800 ft on ADSB. A/A was 259.9

They were chatting A/A down here about overflying that area to avoid Class B airspace as one of
the pilots lives up that way in New Jersey as well..

McGuire has new KC-46A on the way from Boeing Field Wash State. Their 9th KC-46.
PUDGY-09 #19-46071

 

[wbagley]

Those little planes are deadly, roughly one person per day killed in the U.S.

Unfortunately, in the post-Covid era the general aviation accident rate appears to be on the rise once more after a 2020 drop due to reduced flying hours.

From the National Safety Council:

Commercial scheduled air travel is among the safest modes of transportation; the 2020 lifetime odds of dying as an aircraft passenger in the United States were too small to calculate. The disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically impacted commercial air travel in 2020. Miles flown by commercial scheduled airlines decreased 57% in 2020 compared to 2019. Reflecting this decrease in miles flown, preliminary estimates of the total number of accidents involving a U.S. registered civilian aircraft decreased from 1,301 in 2019 to 1,139 in 2020. The number of civil aviation deaths decreased from 452 in 2019 to 349 in 2020. All but one of the 349 deaths in 2020 were onboard fatalities. None of these deaths involved a commercial airline.

Home & Community Safety: Airplane Crashes - Injury Facts (nsc.org)

U.S. commercial aviation wasn't always this safe, painful lessons were often learned from fatal plane crashes and, in recent years, near-crashes.

Some examples in this article:

Airplane Accidents: 13 Famous Plane Crashes That Changed Aviation (popularmechanics.com)

 

[jsoergel]

247.050 is the usual CAP refueling freq; so I would say it is a CAP freq.

I believe it is designated as a NORAD “event” frequency. AFAIK, the standard EADS freqs are 260.900/228.900 for HUNTRESS and 247.050/228.150 for AR.

Jared Soergel
Washington Court House, OH

 

[AirScan]

DECEE 90 on some sort of Border tour ?