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Anyone give me a tie-up for this code please - 3FB2AD
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Hiya Dave
It's a Luftwaffe Tonka - can't find the serial though - suspect they rotate them like most other of their kit
reported on Military Mode s as being in your neck of the woods at around 10am this morning??? culdrose presumably although on a Saturdays very unusual??
http://www.live-military-mode-s.eu/staticGMT.php
Rich
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Dave
Sorry mate - I haven't woken up yet!!
Just realised it was most probably you who posted the info onto Military Mode S anyway????
Normal service will resume sometime later today- too much cider consumed last night!!
Rich
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It's a Luftwaffe Tonka - can't find the serial though - suspect they rotate them like most other of their kit
If by Tonka you mean Tornado, I beg to differ - unless the GAF have started fitting them with ADS-B.
Tracked here for half an hour at FL360 heading west, probably a Challenger heading over the Pond with yet another "tactical" code. ORCAM (Karlsruhe) squawk.
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Yep - there's quite a few German Tornados carrying ADS-B nowadays, generally from JBG32 out of Lechfeld,although like I said with most military kit, they swap them around regularly
For the record, most of the EADS machines operating from Manching also carry ADS-B now
Obviously this doesn't equate to it 100% being a Tornado as this code isn't confirmed, but all the mil sites seem to indicate it as such??
Who knows?
Rgds
Rich
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Cheers all, yes my first thoughts were on a Tornado as that was the only reference I could find to 3AF2AD, and FlightID GAF188, but nothing around Culdrose today.
Guess one for the "Who Knows" list for now.
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3AF2AD came back eastbound in the early hours of this morning, also as GAF188.
Clearly it's been across the Pond and back, which certainly doesn't look like a typical Tornado mission to me, whereas it's exactly what you would expect a Challenger to be used for.
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Just an FYI.... I remember seeing a Luftwaffe C-130 on the box over the weekend. Unfortunately, I don't have the logs any more so I can't check the hex code.
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Hi NF2G
Do you mean a C160 Transall??
Still looks like Daves assumptions may be valid especially as it came back within the weekend
Rgds
Rich
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Well, the connected database says C-130, but I have already had to correct numerous errors there. (JSTARS utility, not RB.)