Sticky Thread For MilAir V (2010)

[jsoergel]

Patterson, 2/1:
CODY 02 (C-130H, unid - visual confirmation 914th AW) - 2 space A's, 10 crew, requesting transportation, parking, 5000 lbs fuel
REACH 0447 (C-5A, 70-0447) - 2 pax; to KDOV

2/2:
COBRA 70 (OC-135B, 61-2670) - requesting airstairs, power cart, fuel
CODY 02 (C-130H, unid - 914th AW) - departure (last heard direct DEC)
RHINO 20 (C-5A, 68-0215) - training
CODY 02 (C-130H, unid) - ?? duty pax, 6 crew, requesting parking, 20K fuel
NAVY JU 435 (C-9B, unid) - requesting 20K fuel, picking up 16 pax (14 duty pax, 2 space A's); to KGTF
RHINO 50 (C-5A, 68-0215) - AR training, A2, parking A3

2/3:
REACH 01 (C-21A, unid) - pax dropoff (A3), departed as JOSA 006
JOSA 006 (C-21A, unid) - arrived as REACH 01; to KBLV
CODY 02 (C-130H, unid) - to KSKF
OPEN SKIES 18F (OC-135B, 61-2670) - to KFFO (phonetic spelling as OSY18F), upon return requesting airstairs and 20K fuel
MOVER 30 (KC-10A, unid) - diverting (maintenance), requesting airstairs and high-lift to inspect #2 engine, parking Hotel row
ELVIS 67 (C-5A, unid) - parking A7
REACH 0461 (C-5A, 70-0461) - returning from mission, parking A2

The OC-135 was cleared to spiral up to FL100 after takeoff and returned to Patterson at 1825Z after a departure around 1500Z...maybe just a check flight.

 

[jsoergel]

Guys,

received a tip from a guy in the Midwest that there could be a StratCom exercise tomorrow starting in the morning and lasting until about 5 PM. So may we could see increased E-6B acty out of PAX as well as possibly an NAOC ABNCP out of Andrews.

There's a NORAD exercise scheduled over northern Ohio tomorrow, but I don't expect much activity from the big players. The 180th FW will be intercepting civil aircraft for training, so a few F-16s, maybe CAP aircraft, and possibly an AWACS.

 

[jsoergel]

MOVER 30 (KC-10A, unid) picking up clearance back to KWRI at 1935Z...I'm leaving for class in a few minutes and can't watch it depart, so anyone who picks up an ID, please pass it on.

 

[jsoergel]

Patterson 2/3 (cont'd):
EASY 672 (unid) - arrival
MOVER 30 (KC-10A, unid) - to KWRI
EASY 672 (unid) - to KPOB
ELVIS 67 (C-5A, 69-0010?) - to KMEM...can't confirm the tail, but heard "a/c ?10" calling for a radio check

 

[TinEar]

MOVER 30 (KC-10A, unid) picking up clearance back to KWRI at 1935Z...I'm leaving for class in a few minutes and can't watch it depart, so anyone who picks up an ID, please pass it on.

MOVER 30 = KC-10A, 87-0120, 305th AMW McGuire
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I found one more freq change for an ARTCC:
Houston ARTCC (ZHU)...Add 126.35 Low for Baton Rouge Sector

Ed, the Brunwick freqs have been cleaned up now that the place has closed. Basically, Portland and all the other little airports in the state are now to call Portland instead of Brunswick for Approach/Departure. There was a very long list that deleted all the Brunswick Approach/Departure freqs and simply reassigned them to Portland. They also added that if/when Approach/Departure was not operating, Portland and the other little airports are to be controlled by the Boston ARTCC (ZBW) on freqs 128.2/322.4, the South Acton RCAG.

Might as well add this one too for Jared...
Mansfield OH...Add 297.75 for Command Post

I've got a few others from around the country but guess I'll post those to one of the Yahoo groups since they aren't really applicable to this area.

 

[jsoergel]

MOVER 30 = KC-10A, 87-0120, 305th AMW McGuire
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I found one more freq change for an ARTCC:
Houston ARTCC (ZHU)...Add 126.35 Low for Baton Rouge Sector

Ed, the Brunwick freqs have been cleaned up now that the place has closed. Basically, Portland and all the other little airports in the state are now to call Portland instead of Brunswick for Approach/Departure. There was a very long list that deleted all the Brunswick Approach/Departure freqs and simply reassigned them to Portland. They also added that if/when Approach/Departure was not operating, Portland and the other little airports are to be controlled by the Boston ARTCC (ZBW) on freqs 128.2/322.4, the South Acton RCAG.

Might as well add this one too for Jared...
Mansfield OH...Add 297.75 for Command Post

I've got a few others from around the country but guess I'll post those to one of the Yahoo groups since they aren't really applicable to this area.

Thanks, I've added the ID and the freq.

VADER 06 (C-130H, 89-9106) in for aeromed training...loading up now before a round robin.

 

[freqhopping]

JENA-156 flight of 5 helos is on the way to do an overflight of Mt. Weather. 241.0
N100WG may be one of them.

 

[mdmonitor]

HF Logs

I know some of you are interested in HF so here's my HF Milair logs for today:

((Times UTC, Freqs KHz))

07527.0 J03 (USCG MH-60J #6003 CGAS Clearwater FL): 1257 USB/ALE sounding.

07527.0 J22 (USCG MH-60J #6022 CGAS Clearwater FL): 1302 USB/ALE sounding. Also on 15867.0.

07527.0 ROS (USCGC SPENCER, WMEC 905 Boston MA): 1321 USB/ALE sounding.

08912.0 J29 (USCG MH-60J #6029 CGAS Clearwater FL): 1345 USB/ALE sounding.

08912.0 LNT (CamsLant Chesapeake): 1349 USB/ALE w/502 (USCG HC-130H #1502, CGAS Clearwater FL) who advises they have left CGAS Clearwater enroute to Hurlburt Field FL. At 1558 502 reports departing Hurlburt Field.

08912.0 500 (USCG HC-130H #1500, CGAS Elizabeth City NC): 1404 USB/ALE w/LNT w/position report that was too weak to copy.

08912.0 K61 (USCG MH-65C # 6561, HITRON Jacksonville FL): 1440 USB/ALE sounding.

08912.0 J39 (USCG MH-60J #6039 CGAS Clearwater FL): 1443 USB/ALE sounding.

15867.0 D46 (US Customs P-3 AEW&C #N146CS/BuNo 154605, Jacksonville AMB, FL): 1453 USB/ALE sounding. Also on 08912.0 & 12222.0.

14582.0 N03 (USCG HC-144A #2303 ATC Mobile AL): 1534 USB/ALE sounding.

08337.6 Shark 11 (USCGC Forward, WMEC-911, Portsmouth VA): 1540 USB w/Swordfish 05 (USCG HU-25D # 2105 CGAS Miami-not heard) securing radio guard.

08983.0 CamsLant: 1545 USB w/Swordfish 17 (USCG HU-25A # 2117, CGAS Miami FL) who reports "ops normal."

15867.0 D14 (US Customs P-3A “Slick” #N18314/BuNo 150314, Corpus Christi AMB, TX): 1555 USB/ALE sounding.

10242.0 D70 (US Customs P-3A "Slick" #N16370/BuNo 152170, Corpus Christi AMB, TX): 1600 USB/ALE sounding.

10242.0 CamsLant: 1817 USB w/CG 1720 (USCG HC-130H #1720, CGAS Clearwater FL) who passes position report (missed).

08912.0 F40 (USCG HU-25 #2140 CGAS Cape Cod MA): 1727 USB/ALE sounding.

15867.0 TSC (US Customs National Law Enforcement Communications Center -- Technical Service Center, Orlando, FL ): 1741 USB/ALE w/C03 (US Army Corps of Enginners Rapid Response Vehicle # 3, Nashville, TN).

08983.0 CamsLant: 1919 USB w/CG 2102 (HU-25D CGAS Miami FL) on final for homeplate & securing radio guard.

09025.0 MOBD17 (Airlift Control Element, Holmstead ARB FL): 1925 USB/ALE calling LNTD17 (unid).

08912.0 T16 (US Customs PIPER PA-42-720R #N9116Q, "OMAHA 16Q", Jacksonville, FL AMB): 1944 USB/ALE sounding.

08337.6 Shark 09 (poss USCGC Aquidneck WPB-1309, Portsmouth VA): 2025 USB w/Sinbad 01 (unid, prob USCG) in both clear voice and ANDVT.

08337.6 Shark 11 (USCGC Forward, WMEC-911, Portsmouth VA): 2042 USB w/Bandit 22 (poss HH-65C # 6522, CGAS Detroit MI-not heard). Bandit 22 prob deployed on USCG cutter.

08337.6 Swordfish 05: 2248 USB calling Shark 11 reporting they are mission complete and that they are RTB.

Ron (mdmonitor1@verizon.net)
Utility Monitoring from Maryland, USA
Icom R75
45-ft PAR EF-SWL
Decoder- Multipsk V4.15

 

[TinEar]

Gates Fires General Running F-35 Program

February 02, 2010
DoD Buzz|by Colin Clark


In a bombshell during the fiscal 2011 defense budget roll-out, Pentagon chief Robert Gates announced that the manager of the Joint Strike Fighter program was being fired and would be replaced by a three star.
"One cannot absorb the additional costs in this program and the delays without people being held accountable,"<SNIP>


Gates Fires General Running F-35 Program
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And this story leaves me feeling just dumbfounded...
How the hell do you win a war you're not willing to fight?

New US Air Strategy in Afghanistan
Six months after Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S commander in Afghanistan, issued a tactical directive urging troops to walk away from a fight rather than risk killing civilians, the Air Force is engaging in a campaign of restraint. Instead of airstrikes, airmen increasingly are searching for places they can drop bombs that can be heard and felt, but where they're unlikely to damage buildings or hurt people.

http://www.military.com/news/article/new-us-air-strategy-in-afghanistan.html?ESRC=airforce-a.nl

 

[jsoergel]

GAS 59 (E-4B, unid) arrived at Patterson at 0050Z. Interesting to have two Offutt-based aircraft (the other being COBRA 70) on the ramp at the same time.

 

[jetcrafter]

Ed, the Brunwick freqs have been cleaned up now that the place has closed. Basically, Portland and all the other little airports in the state are now to call Portland instead of Brunswick for Approach/Departure. There was a very long list that deleted all the Brunswick Approach/Departure freqs and simply reassigned them to Portland. They also added that if/when Approach/Departure was not operating, Portland and the other little airports are to be controlled by the Boston ARTCC (ZBW) on freqs 128.2/322.4, the South Acton RCAG.

Thanks Alan. Yep, Now I have to re-program all the scanners. This frees up one bank in each.

Funny they are still saying to use 322.4 for ZBW. That's been out of commission for YEARS!
I've not heard anything on it since they changed to 263.05 except for an occasional misinformed pilot
trying to contact ZBW and wonder why they get no answer.

 

[TinEar]

.... an occasional misinformed pilot
trying to contact ZBW and wonder why they get no answer.

Probably trying 322.4 because the FAA still publishes it as the correct freq in some publications. It seems there are several departments working the freq assignments and they don't coordinate with each other to update their respective lists. That results in a notice like the one I posted where one group isn't aware the freq has changed to 263.05.

 

[bmlure]

Feb 3

(UHF)
0751 hr: 378.1-JOSA 625
1005 hr: 274.45-Steel 71 w/ Hagar 70
1110 hr: 311.0-Steel 73
1222 hr: 311.0-Steel 62
1251 hr: 378.1-Sooner 84
1459 hr: 237.2-Banger 21,22
1709 hr: 378.1-Sooner 34
1854 hr: 378.1-Reach 3118
1916 hr: 349.9-Reach 7042
2052 hr: 274.45-Steel 75
2054 hr: 282.7-Steel 75 w/ Bolar. Did not catch number

 

[bmlure]

2100 hr: 282.7-Steel 75 w/ Bolar 70

 

[freqhopping]

Doing some searching it appears that most/all U-28s are flying around still using their former FAA mode-S codes. A bunch of them were formerly registered to Sierra Nevada Corp. Looking up the codes for these old registrations shows them commonly displaying ALLIED 1 for the flight ID, AB8123 (N840PE now 07-0840) displayed FLITE 10.

Last night my friend at flight training school mentioned he was considering going the AC-130/U-28 route, but he wouldn't mind getting a U-2 since that's what his dad flew.

Here's what I've come up with.

 

[mdmonitor]

GAS 59 (E-4B, unid) arrived at Patterson at 0050Z. Interesting to have two Offutt-based aircraft (the other being COBRA 70) on the ramp at the same time.

Jared,

Maybe they are there to participate in the exercise that may be sked for tomorrow

 

[jsoergel]

Jared,

Maybe they are there to participate in the exercise that may be sked for tomorrow

I'm not so sure...the OC-135 probably won't - no real role for it to play. The E-4 is a possibility, but doesn't have the radar capabilities.

Full logs for today:
REACH 01 (C-21A, unid) - pax dropoff (A3), departed as JOSA 006
JOSA 006 (C-21A, unid) - arrived as REACH 01; to KBLV
CODY 02 (C-130H, unid) - to KSKF
OPEN SKIES 18F (OC-135B, 61-2670) - to KFFO, upon return requesting airstairs and 20K fuel
MOVER 30 (KC-10A, 87-0120) - diverting (maintenance), requesting airstairs and high-lift to inspect #2 engine, parking Hotel row
ELVIS 67 (C-5A, 69-0010?) - parking A7
REACH 0461 (C-5A, 70-0461) - returning from mission, parking A2
EASY 672 (unid) - arrival
MOVER 30 (KC-10A, 87-0120) - to KWRI
EASY 672 (unid) - to KPOB
ELVIS 67 (C-5A, 69-0010?) - to KMEM
VADER 06 (C-130H, 89-9106) - aeromed training; to KYNG
GAS 59 (E-4B, unid) - arrival
REACH 69012 (C-5A, 69-0012) - called Metro for weather at KSWF
MASH 83 (KC-135R, unid) - asked Patterson Metro to call Grissom Metro and inform them paperwork was left behind

 

[TinEar]

Speaking of E-4s, had one in this area twice today. It was 73-1676 displaying HUGE 99 for a callsign. Had it mid 1200 hour and again last half of 1800 hour. I don't know if that's one of those you had at W-P.

 

[jsoergel]

Speaking of E-4s, had one in this area twice today. It was 73-1676 displaying HUGE 99 for a callsign. Had it mid 1200 hour and again last half of 1800 hour. I don't know if that's one of those you had at W-P.

It's possible...I've only ever seen 74-0787 and 75-0125 here in the past, though.

 

[mdmonitor]

Exercise

Gys,

Looks like the exercise has started---got Andrews on HF streaming EAMs one of them for Soul Mate.

Anyone seeing E-4s and/or E-6Bs flying around?