3FB2AD ?

[DaveG]

Anyone give me a tie-up for this code please - 3FB2AD

[Marpleman]

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

[Marpleman]

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

[DaveReid]

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.

[Marpleman]

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

[DaveG]

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.

[DaveReid]

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.

[NF2G]

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.

[Marpleman]

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

[NF2G]

Well, the connected database says C-130, but I have already had to correct numerous errors there.  (JSTARS utility, not RB.)