Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2022

[Mark]

Mark
1455- Tabor 51 working ZDC Atlantic City (281.45) & ZDC Cape Charles (236.825)

Rgr Ron got second group flight of 6 L+C A/A 297.900
1505 "Kitty Hawk is off our left side at 79 miles"

1513 local a KC-`135 out of MacDill coming North along coast #62-3564 as FIAT-11
going to Pease on ACARS.

 

[mdmonitor]

Anyone hearing anything on 171.35?

Hbright

Since ur in DC area you might try 225.6/225.875/293.6 for 1st Helo Sqdn at ADW.

 

[mdmonitor]

Hbright

Since ur in DC area you might try 225.6/225.875/293.6 for 1st Helo Sqdn at ADW.

Should have given more explanation.

225.6 & 225.875 are A2A, discrete freqs.

293.6 is their Mussel Ops freq

 

[BM82557]

Fyi --

U.S. F-15s To Leave Okinawa Without Permanent Replacement: Report

 

[RaleighGuy]

09-0018 headed back to ADW as 09-0016 AF1 heads to DANG

 

[ra7850]

Fyi --

U.S. F-15s To Leave Okinawa Without Permanent Replacement: Report

Its highly doubtful they will ever leave Okinawa. I spent 4 years there working on the F15. They are the deterrent for North Korea, and China. They used to sit active alert, 24x7x365 at Osan AB, South Korea as well.

Robert

 

[BM82557]

3 hour TFR for Baltimore on Sat. 10/29 --

2/2132 NOTAM Details

 

[RaleighGuy]

3 hour TFR for Baltimore on Sat. 10/29 --

2/2132 NOTAM Details

Nothing announced yet but it looks like VP TFR

 

[Mark]

Its highly doubtful they will ever leave Okinawa. I spent 4 years there working on the F15. They are the deterrent for North Korea, and China. They used to sit active alert, 24x7x365 at Osan AB, South Korea as well.
Robert

I don't get having 54 F-35A's gathering snow in Eielson Alaska. Russia couldn't bring half that many aircraft over the Arctic
even if they wanted to.Shift a squadron from there as well as new F-15EX's hopefully to come
Have heard F-15C pilots around here saying how they got smoked by F-35's in Red/Blue drills. A bit of hype in that article.

 

[RaleighGuy]

Philly trip for POTUS tomorrow evening...

5:30 PM THE PRESIDENT departs New Castle, Delaware en route Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from Delaware Air National Guard Base
5:45 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia International Airport
7:00 PM THE PRESIDENT and THE VICE PRESIDENT deliver remarks at a reception at Philadelphia Convention Center
8:40 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Philadelphia, Pennsylvania en route New Castle, Delaware, Philadelphia International Airport
8:55 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives in New Castle, Delaware at Delaware Air National Guard Base

 

[JetWash]

The NFDD isn’t done yet with updates to ZDC, published Thursday and effective Friday October 28:

GREEN BAY, VA, RCAG:
132.025 HIGH, 269.4 HIGH, and 290.425 HIGH ARE ALL DELETED. None of them appeared on charts. (132.025 and 290.425 were added at the Lawrenceville, VA, RCAG in the NFDD back on October 19.)

LYNCHBURG, VA:
133.575 and 270.35 are STILL IN USE, BUT ARE NOW HIGH ALTITUDE

ROANOKE, VA:
134.625 HIGH and 377.2 HIGH ARE DELETED. No mention of replacements.

SOUTH BOSTON, VA:
307.0 LOW is DELETED
352.0 is ADDED. Both WILL appear on charts.
The NFDD and NOTAMs only mention RCAGs, not sector names or numbers. That's why there are no sectors mentioned.

 

[Radar412]

Had two consecutive good afternoons and evenings at the MRB airport watching the ANG C-17s (callsign DECOY) shoot T&G and practice dark-field landings and takeoffs. After dark, when the field is generally not very active with general aviation flights, the tower will stay open after 1900L to play games with the ANG jets. They can take off, go outside the pattern while squawking VFR, turn 360s, come back across the midfield, circle into the pattern and plunk down for a quickie landing just like they were landing at an improvised field and dodging AA. A pickup truck (callsign AIRFIELD ONE) works with them and I believe he puts out temporary flares or lights to simulate a short field. I haven't figured out that part of the routine yet. Tuesdays are the best days to be there but Wednesday was good for the night action last night. Good place to be close to the Air Force's heavy metal. Monitor command post PIKESIDE on UHF and the tower and ground control on VHF.

Where do you sit to watch? I'm in Berkeley Springs, sounds like a doable trip.

 

[mdmonitor]

VIP Movement Summary 27 Oct

SAM 482 (C-40 # 01-0040) Seattle-ADW
SAM 479 (C-40 # 01-0041) Kansas City-Denver-ADW
SAM 478 (C-37 # 99-0402) Houston-ADW
SAM 515 (C-37 # 18-1942) ADW-Cleveland-ADW??

 

[N4TX]

Where do you sit to watch? I'm in Berkeley Springs, sounds like a doable trip.

Park on the south side of the field between the terminal and the AvGas pumps. That puts you at midfield and directly across the runway from the C-17 parking. You see everything. On the ANG side of the field you can’t see much.

 

[RaleighGuy]

OCTOBER 28, 2022

At 1:50 PM ET, the Vice President will depart Washington, D.C. en route to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This departure from Joint Base Andrews and arrival at Philadelphia International Airport.

At 9:25 PM ET, the Vice President will depart Philadelphia, Pennsylvania en route to Washington, D.C. This departure from Philadelphia International Airport.

 

[BM82557]

Park on the south side of the field between the terminal and the AvGas pumps. That puts you at midfield and directly across the runway from the C-17 parking. You see everything. On the ANG side of the field you can’t see much.

That's my preferred location also --

Crosswinds Café | Martinsburg WV

Crosswinds Café, Martinsburg, West Virginia. 2,024 likes · 246 talking about this · 1,555 were here. American food, Lounge now open. you can watch the airplanes while eating and having Drinks.

www.facebook.com

 

[Mark]

Tanker KC-46 WIDE-20 arriving South from Pease assume for CAP duty..
I didn't see a CAP In Syracuse yesterday.. sort of surprising..

 

[vgames15]

Tanker KC-46 WIDE-20 arriving South from Pease assume for CAP duty..
I didn't see a CAP In Syracuse yesterday.. sort of surprising..

After going on station Wide 20 turns the transponder off but turned it back on after 15 or so minutes.

 

[AirScan]

Looks like it might be a repeat of the last few days in Viper. MAINE 90 ended up in KBAF again as well.

 

[N4TX]

I didn't know MRB was so popular, but it is a fun place. If you follow the parking instructions above, you'll be adjacent to the Crosswinds Cafe and, luckily, the restrooms in the terminal. The cafe is a sandwich shop but a very nice one and you can't beat the view. The terminal and cafe (and therefore the restrooms) are locked at 6pm and the night C-17 flights have been starting soon thereafter. As I said before, Tuesday seems to be a good day for this, although Wednesday worked this week, too. Nothing much happens on the weekends.