DC-ANG F-16s in the air...RAVAGE flight on interflight 139.15 off the ground at 2030...BULLY flight airborne at 2040 on 143.6 interflight. Both flights used departure 348.725, ZDC-Calvert 281.4 thinking they were going to Patuxent for work. Pax is closed and not letting them come in. Currently flying circles trying to figure out what to do after relaying the message to SOF SENATE on 139.9.
One of the F-16 flights changed to 301.2 at 2048 and is talking about what to do next. I'm not sure who this freq belongs to. It may be a Pax freq but, if so, is new to me. At first, I thought he made a mistake and meant Pax on 305.2 but I dialed up the 301.2 freq and by the time I got there he was talking to someone. [NOTE: Pax Approach per msg from Mike below.]
2051: RAVAGE flight to Pax on 305.2
Apparently, both flights are working somewhere in the Pax area but can't use Pax airfield for any work. Both were at fairly low altitudes and difficult to hear. Additionally, RAVAGE 1 has a very bad transmitter that even his wingman is having trouble understanding.
2046: OPEC 48 (KC-10A 305th AMW McGuire) calling STEEL 73 (KC-135R, 171st ARW PA-ANG Pittsburgh)....303.0 (No contact made)
2053: CONNIE 9712 (B747-122, registration N712CK, flight number CKS 9712) calling Dover Command Post with arrival message...ETA 0110Z, needs parking
2055: CONNIE 9712 with Potomac TRACON descending to 15,000 feet....123.825
Not a clue who he might be...registration just shows a leasing company as the owner. I just looked him up on flightaware and it shows he left Oscoda-Wurtsmith (KOSC) in Oscoda, Michigan. Take a look at the flight path on flightaware.com for something that looks amazing. [NOTE: Mark's message below explains who it is.]
2103: NAVY RY-??? (C-40A, 165830, VR-59) landing at ADW w/Tower...118.4
2109: REACH 309 to Dover CP with arrival message....20 minutes out, will land with 75K on the fuel, zero cargo and has 7 through pax...349.4
2119: RAVAGE flight goggles off...139.15 (On the way home already)
2121: RAVAGE flight at 4000 feet with Potomac TRACON (ADW Approach)...335.5
2122: REACH 309 with Dover Tower for landing...126.35
2123: RAVAGE to SOF...1 is Code 2 for radios, 2 is Code 1...139.9
2128: RAVAGE 1 to ADW Tower...7 miles ILS runway 19L, full stop, gear down...cleared to land 19L...349.0
2129: RAVAGE 2 reports gear down, full stop left...cleared to land left...349.0
2136: JOSA 722 (C-21A, 84-0130, 459th AS Yakota) to Griffin Ops to report takeoff time of 0128Z...141.55 (Andrews ground controller loud and clear this evening on both 141.55 and 378.1. I don't believe it's atmospherics that causes this. I believe they occasionally use the 50 watt linear power amplifier once they learned they were authorized to use it last year. Up until then, they transmitted strictly at 10 watts.) (Scramble shows this aircraft assigned to the 459th at Yakota but I think it may have been reassigned. It has been noted often recently coming into and leaving Andrews.)
2141: ARMY 1778 (C-37B, 04-1778) w/ADW Tower for landing 19L...118.4
2146: JOSA 223 (C-21A, 84-0075, 457th AS Andrews) reports off KGTB (Wheeler-Sack at Ft. Drum NY) at 0056Z, 10 minutes ahead of schedule...378.1
2156: BULLY flight still in the Pax area...talking with controller...asking if he's going to hand them off to Potomac...305.2
2158: CRAB 57 (C-130J, 98-1357, 135th AS MD-ANG) up with Weide Ops...126.2
2158: BULLY 1 flight with Potomac Approach (ADW App) at 4000 feet requesting radar trail recovery to runway 19L..cleared to 3000....335.5
2202: CRAB 57 with Martin State Tower reporting 6 miles out, left downwind at 1500 feet for runway 15 at Martin State...121.3
2204: OPEC 48 (KC-10A, 79-1949, 305th AMW McGuire) calling McGuire Command Post...319.4
2204: BULLY to SOF...1 is Code 2 for targeting pod, 2 is Code 1....139.9
2205: BULLY flight to ADW Tower for landing runway 19L....1 reports gear down...BULLY 2 mumbles his landing report also...349.0
2206: DC 91 (KC135R, 59-1469, 756th ARS Andrews) calling DC 44 (KC-135R, 62-3543, same unit) "on company"....378.1
2210: TIGER 01 (E-2C VAW-125, "Tigertails" NAS Norfolk, VA) on Chambers Metro freq saying he's 30 miles north of Snow Hill landing at Chambers in 25 minutes and asks about the weather...271.6
2219: DC 91 Heavy with TRACON approach Andrews....128.35
2219: CRAB 53 (C-130J, 97-1353, 135th AS MD-ANG) also approach Martin State for landing...121.3
2223: DC 91 cleared for the visual to runway 19L (at Andrews)...128.35
2224: CRAB 53 to Martin State Tower reports right downwind at 1500 feet visual runway 15...121.3
2224: MUSSEL 03 landing ADW w/Tower....118.4
2225: DC 44 with TRACON approach runway 19L at Andrews....descending and maintaning 2500 (currently at 12,000 feet)...128.35
2225: DC 91 Heavy visual for runway 19L reported to ADw Tower....cleared to land 19L...118.4
2226: CRAB 53 turning right base, gear down for runway 15...full stop...121.3
2235: Very unusual...have FedEx 1282 Heavy working with ZNY-Elmira...298.9 (Broken VHF radio perhaps?)
2237: DC 44 to LIBERATOR to report inbound...will land in 20-30 minutes, A-1, will land with about 32K on the gas, need parking....gets North Spot 6...378.1
2238: DC 44 to TRACON says they're going to do another approach after this one and switching to tower...128.35
2238: DC 44 to ADW Tower for runway 19L gear down for the option...118.4
2241: MOVER 45 (KC-10A, 84-0188, 305th AMW McGuire) calling McGuire Command Post...134.1...then tries 319.4 and makes contact...30 minutes out, A-2, no pax or cargo, writeup: air conditioner door light came on during flight....he's told to go to Victor-1 freq and goes back to 134.1...next writeup...real response light came on during real response test....that's all the writeups, just need parking....then repeats that he's 30 minutes out which would be 0310Z (but it's now 2246 which makes it 24 minutes but who's gonna quibble?)
2250: DC 44 approaching runway 19L for another option...118.4
2250: And now I have a World 901 Heavy with ZNY-Elmira...298.9 (Methinks this freq is being used by someone other than ZNY-Elmira.)
The 298.9 freq was still valid for ZNY-Elmira as of a few days ago when I had a FAST flight of F-16s from Syracuse using it.
2256: DC 44 reports gear down, cleared to land...118.4
2312: Have to add this one...E-6B, 162784, VQ-3 coming across norther Virginia from west to east on a 105 degree heading at FL 280. Not sure yet if he's coming into Patuxent. He left Pax about 1745 this afternoon.
2315: The E-6B begins his descent and looks like he is going to Pax...down to 24K by 2317....and down to 21K by 2321. He no doubt came across N. VA because that was the only way across without going through the storms.
2326: 784 to Shadow Maintenance chatting about seeing them in a few as he prepares to land...down to 11,000 feet now and approaching Pax from the north...8000 feet at 2329...310.15
And that's about enough for the log for tonight. There are some severe looking thunderstorms in northern VA and covering WV coming this way. There's another rough storm just south of Dover. Lots of commercial aircraft trying to dodge the storms asking for deviations from their flights paths. Think I'll unplug antennas for overnight.
Ref Below: Thanks Mark. I haven't followed the Kallita flights much at all and probably should. I only found him on flightaware from having the flight number (CKS 9712) and couldn't believe the flight path they're showing for him.
Have a Brit friend sending me this. Will wear it next time I go to Andrews. Hard to see but it's Royal Air Force:
