Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2022

[Mark]

CAP up down the beach as coms are weaker here.. NOBLE-01,02 A/A 263.200 and tanker should be
TEFLON-11 #58-0124 but he has his tracker off..

Cal ANG put a nice paint job on one of their F-15C's.
The 144th FW’s brand new 10,000 hr commemorative paint job for #113 : aviation (reddit.com)

 

[mdmonitor]

VIP Movement Summary 21 Oct

SAM 288 (C-37 # 20-1941) track starts over Minnesota-ADW
NAVY 100 (C-37 # 166378) ADW-Boston
SAM 321 (C-37 # 09-0525) ADW-Colorado Springs
SAM 285 (C-37 # 18-1942) ADW-Colorado Springs

 

[mdmonitor]

0940- AF2 (C-32 # 98-0003) off ADW.

 

[mdmonitor]

1002- Taste 28 (E-6B # 162784 VQ-4 Det) off PAX heading north.

 

[Mark]

NOBLE-11 entering CAP with ZDC 354.150 going to tanker A/A 267.500 boom 247.050

West Virginia Vets on DC Honor flight tour today to DC. Fly to BWI then busses to the city.
Nice day for this.
Honor Flight to give 100 veterans Washington tour this weekend | American Military News

Must have been this flight this morning to BWI
G44025 (AAY4025) Allegiant Air Flight Tracking and History 22-Oct-2022 (KCKB-KBWI) - FlightAware

 

[Mark]

Good inside vid article today by the CBC (for once not talking about climate change) of a NATO AWACS flight.
Flying just outside Ukraine, NATO's sentinel planes warn of Russia's battlefield moves | CBC News

 

[mdmonitor]

NOBLE-11 entering CAP with ZDC 354.150 going to tanker A/A 267.500 boom 247.050

West Virginia Vets on DC Honor flight tour today to DC. Fly to BWI then busses to the city.
Nice day for this.
Honor Flight to give 100 veterans Washington tour this weekend | American Military News

Must have been this flight this morning to BWI
G44025 (AAY4025) Allegiant Air Flight Tracking and History 22-Oct-2022 (KCKB-KBWI) - FlightAware

Mark

Friends of ours live in The Villages in FL. They've done several Honor Flts (as escorts--or Guardians as they are called) from FL up here. We've a team that meets them at BWI when they arrive we give all the vets (mostly Korean War & Vietnam--but a few WWII) a rousing, flag waving, shaking hands welcome in the terminal. They board their buses and are given a motorcycle escort by one of the local vet riders club. Quite an emotional experience. Some times they even get a police escort down to DC by the Park Police

Southwest used to provide the acft free of charge but they've dropped out in the last year or so and Allegiant has picked them up.

 

[john8436]

CAP up down the beach as coms are weaker here.. NOBLE-01,02 A/A 263.200 and tanker should be
TEFLON-11 #58-0124 but he has his tracker off..

Cal ANG put a nice paint job on one of their F-15C's.
The 144th FW’s brand new 10,000 hr commemorative paint job for #113 : aviation (reddit.com)

TEFLN-13 (KC-46A 16-46022) on station now. Same weak coms here in Philly.

 

[Mark]

1607 local got some A/A coms on 374.100 mention 55 minutes to base.Faded fast.

Funny boom coms on 247.050 NOBLE says ex-Navy here saying he likes the colors on the TEFLON-13 KC-46.
"I eat crayons and like colors" TEFLON-13 says "I thought you were ex Navy not Marines" LOL
NOBLE's A/A 268.200

Sure are a lot of ex-Navy pilots flying F-15s in ANG units these days. Seems every F-15c squad thru here has
a ex Navy pilot or more.. Prob not a hard stretch to go from active F/18's to ANG F-15's.

 

[jsoergel]

NOBLE-11 entering CAP with ZDC 354.150 going to tanker A/A 267.500 boom 247.050

Had TEFLON 12 working TEFLON 11 on 247.500 as they headed to take over. No ADS-B this time. Later contacted HUNTRESS 260.900 and got the correct boom freq of 247.050.

In other news, 27th FS returned from Nellis today. Heard them eastbound with ZID in the late afternoon.

FIRST 11
293.225 > 284.725 > 307.300
228.450 Aux 13

FIRST 21
263.050 > 284.725 > 307.300
257.075 Aux 14

FIRST 01
293.225 > 284.725 > 290.550 > 257.850
233.525 Aux 11

FIRST 31
322.425 > 284.725 > 307.300
262.025 Aux 12

 

[jaymatt1978]

So THAT'S WHY I'm not gretting air-to-air I had 267.050 not 267.500

NOBLE-11 entering CAP with ZDC 354.150 going to tanker A/A 267.500 boom 247.050

West Virginia Vets on DC Honor flight tour today to DC. Fly to BWI then busses to the city.
Nice day for this.
Honor Flight to give 100 veterans Washington tour this weekend | American Military News

Must have been this flight this morning to BWI
G44025 (AAY4025) Allegiant Air Flight Tracking and History 22-Oct-2022 (KCKB-KBWI) - FlightAware

 

[mdmonitor]

VIP Movement Summary 22 Oct

SAM 291 (C-37 # 06-0500) Colorado Springs??-ADW
NAVY 100 (C-37 # 166378) Boston-ADW-Wilmington DE
SAM 321 (C-37 # 09-0525) ADW-Hickam
SAM 315 (C-40 # 02-0042) ADW-Colorado Springs-ADW
SAM 350 (C-37 # 18-1947) ADW-Colorado Springs-St Louis
SAM 419 (C-37 # 20-1941) ADW-Raleigh-Durham-ADW
SAM 375 (C-40 # 01-0041) Colorado Springs-Los Angeles-ADW

 

[mdmonitor]

1607 local got some A/A coms on 374.100 mention 55 minutes to base.Faded fast.

Funny boom coms on 247.050 NOBLE says ex-Navy here saying he likes the colors on the TEFLON-13 KC-46.
"I eat crayons and like colors" TEFLON-13 says "I thought you were ex Navy not Marines" LOL
NOBLE's A/A 268.200

Sure are a lot of ex-Navy pilots flying F-15s in ANG units these days. Seems every F-15c squad thru here has
a ex Navy pilot or more.. Prob not a hard stretch to go from active F/18's to ANG F-15's.

Mark

I have 374.1 in my scanner as a VAW-120 (Greyhawk) freq.

 

[mdmonitor]

0950- Nobles chat on 263.2 & advise Huntress (260.9) that combined they are burning 17K fuel per hour. Ouch !!!!! Some chat between Teflon & Huntress about how long they can stay in the CAP.

0955- Reach 795 (C-17 # 03-3126 6th AS) working NAS Oceana Ops (284.9).

 

[Mark]

from tape 0910 local RIVER-91 flight of 3 climbing up to 5k VFR on ZDC UHF.Then mentions KNTU.
VFA-204 "River Rattlers" ? VFA-204 - Wikipedia
Maybe dumping off their old Hornets at Oceana?

In April 2022, plans emerged that VFA-204 will be redesignated Fighter Squadron Composite 204 (VFC-204) in October 2022 and that the squadron is slated to transition to the F-5N/F Tiger II, with the required aircraft being transferred from VFC-13, another Navy adversary squadron. The NAS Fallon, Nevada based VFC-13 will in turn receive recently retired F-16 Fighting Falcons from the US Air Force.

The Navy Just Received Its First Surplus F-16s From The Air Force (Updated) (thedrive.com)
The pic of VFC-204 F-5N looks like the Mig-28 from old movie Topgun

 

[mdmonitor]

from tape 0910 local RIVER-91 climbing up to 5k VFR on ZDC UHF.Then mentions KNTU.
VFA-204 "River Rattlers" ? VFA-204 - Wikipedia
Maybe dumping off their Hornets at Oceana?

In April 2022, plans emerged that VFA-204 will be redesignated Fighter Squadron Composite 204 (VFC-204) in October 2022 and that the squadron is slated to transition to the F-5N/F Tiger II, with the required aircraft being transferred from VFC-13, another Navy adversary squadron. The NAS Fallon, Nevada based VFC-13 will in turn receive recently retired F-16 Fighting Falcons from the US Air Force.

Mark

Which ZDC UHF freq was it?

 

[Mark]

Mark
Which ZDC UHF freq was it?

Sorry I wasn't here to see Ron so maybe came out of Andrews eastbound? Doubt I would hear them departing Pax River.
Strong signal when they were going to 5k so must have been close by. Maybe Pot appch Balt 317.425?

 

[mdmonitor]

Sorry I wasn't here to see Ron so maybe came out of Andrews eastbound? Doubt I would hear them departing Pax River.

Mark

Was curious. I had my radios on at that time ad didn't get any hits except for the CAP. I usually get good reception from ADW but I guess I missed them

 

[mdmonitor]

1105- Ascot 5825 (RAF C-130J ZH865 99th AS Brize Norton UK) transiting our area heading northeast at FL290. Departed from Savannah GA.

1120 Odd ADS-B hit. Showing Kbar 07 (UC-12 # 168207 MCAS New River NC) on the ground at Manassas VA.

 

[RaleighGuy]

On Tuesday, November 1, POTUS will travel to South Florida.