Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2022

[morfis]

Reported this morning as flight of 4 Chiefs out for a spin around Spain.
Chief-11 or all went thru Med to offshore Egypt.
I'm sure they were joined by coalition fighters as well on this trip.

Where reported four?
Two of them went out with CHIEF12 (AE58A7) doing a short round trip to the Med due to a problem. Decided to return to FFD rather than divert into Moron. CHIEF11 (AE58B2) continued and picked up a couple of lapdog eurofacrce out of Akrotiri to get the holiday snaps. Currently over the Red Sea.
Tankers LAGER965/6/7

 

[Mark]

Where reported four?
Two of them went out with CHIEF12 (AE58A7) doing a short round trip to the Med due to a problem. Decided to return to FFD rather than divert into Moron. CHIEF11 (AE58B2) continued and picked up a couple of lapdog eurofacrce out of Akrotiri to get the holiday snaps. Currently over the Red Sea.
Tankers LAGER965/6/7

See,dont trust all those blogs

 

[BM82557]

Getting some chatter on NOBLE A2A freq 263.2 but I haven't seen or heard a tanker

 

[BM82557]

Getting some chatter on NOBLE A2A freq 263.2 but I haven't seen or heard a tanker

Still no tanker, NOBLES chatting that if they get down to 5.5 (fuel) they are going to stay in the southern half of the CAP, on a nice weather day like today with 4.5 they can make it back with 2000 lbs.

08:15 local 260.9 Huntress with Noble 01, engines are turning on tanker 99, will take off any minute
20 mikes until on station

08:16 local Noble 01 on 263.2 to 02 about getting calling back to Ops and we'll figure out if they're ok with us chancing to stop at Andrews

08:26 local no tanker showing up yet on ADSB Exchange

08:32 local Huntress to Noble 01 on 260.9, tanker 99 is airborne, 20 minutes until on station

 

[mdmonitor]

0838- Deed 183 (C-17 # 99-0165 445thAMW/89th AS Wright Patterson AFB OH) working Quantico Ops (355.3).

 

[mdmonitor]

VIP Movement Summary 13 Feb

SAM 134 (C-40 # 01-0015) MacDill FB FL-ADW
SAM 978 (C-32 # 98-0002) Hickam AFB HI-ADW- Sec State coming home
SAM 282 (C-37 # 97-0400) ADW-Myrtle Beach SC-ADW
SAM 303 (C-37 # 11-0550) ADW-Liberia

 

[mdmonitor]

0853- Hearing couple of acft (one male & one female pilot) on ZBW Calverton (292.15). They are weak and no calls heard so far. Nothing showing on ADS-B. From what chat I can make out sounds like a tanker and other acft.

0910- EGY 1103 (C-130 SU-BAF) off BWI heading northeast.

 

[mdmonitor]

0950- Colt 79 (E-6B # 164387 VQ-4 Det) transiting area from west to east. Working ZNY Big Flat (132.2). Departed from MacDill AFB FL. Turned over Harrisburg & heading south. Looks like he's heading home to Pax River. Yep, He's working PAX tower (123.7)

 

[TerryPavlick]

Nice video of NORAD which includes descriptions and actual practice demonstrations of intercept of a general aviation aircraft.
Note the terms used are ones we here when they are intercepting real TOIs in the CAPs.

 

[mdmonitor]

1230- Rider 75 (C-17 # 07-7170 3rd AS DOV) inbound to DOV. Had departed earlier this morning then went down to AR328 in Eastern TN. Voice call is Rider 75 but ADS-B showing him as Reach 655T. Someone forgot to change the ident

 

[mdmonitor]

1247- Salty Dog 222 (F-18 VX-23) working Echo Control (320.45) advising he is complete in the Test Track & will RTB PAX.

1300- Wild flt (3 X F-16s 121st FS DC ANG) working discrete (285.225) & 121st SOF (139.45) w/acft status reports. A little odd, Wilds using VHF tower freq (118.4) for landing instead of the normal UHF (349.0)

 

[mdmonitor]

Guys

Saw this and I thought it worth passing on. All three of the tanker-types we have in our area in one picture

 

[wbagley]

Nice video of NORAD which includes descriptions and actual practice demonstrations of intercept of a general aviation aircraft.
Note the terms used are ones we here when they are intercepting real TOIs in the CAPs.

Great video!

 

[Tech792]

One of my favorite movies. They say that set cost $1M to construct back in the 80's.

 

[mdmonitor]

1325- PLF 105 (Polish AF GLF-5 # 0001) off Dulles heading southeast.

 

[robert16627]

KFS4499 out of Dover this morning on it's way to Ontario California for a HR flight with a stop over in Illinois and New Mexico.

 

[TerryPavlick]

Former governor of California tries to negotiate with Putin on Ukraine crisis but is not allowed to see Putin.

 

[Chris52]

Venus93 flying overhead just now

 

[wbagley]

Two of them went out with CHIEF12 (AE58A7) doing a short round trip to the Med due to a problem. Decided to return to FFD rather than divert into Moron. CHIEF11 (AE58B2) continued and picked up a couple of lapdog eurofacrce out of Akrotiri to get the holiday snaps. Currently over the Red Sea.
Tankers LAGER965/6/7

CHIEF 11 just transited the Strait of Gibraltar once more on the way back to RAF Fairford UK.

 

[Mark]

A RAF Voyager ZZ330 callsign RRR9210 coming East from Ft Worth with new RAF F-35B's.
Seems to be turning SE. Maybe will do second leg tomorrow from down South being so late today.
Looks like they are inbound MCAS Beaufort. A friendly F-35B rest area
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