Interesting Military Aircraft

[charlie]

John

Yeau I live not far from 2 well know bases in the Suffolk area and get a large number of Quid callsigns in my log.

What are the range of frequencies on HF to listen in to?

[Canonjohns40D]

Hi Dave/Charlie

Well too late now i'll plead the 5th!!!

freqs were Santa Maria 5.598 and 8.906 Shanwick 3.016 and 5.5980.

See you at the hearing!!!!

[charlie]

Cheers

They can hang us all together HA HA

[viking9]

Help

I have tried all the usual sources of information but to no avail.

Charlie

Charlie,

It's not worth bothering about the F-15 serials as they swap hex codes between aircraft daily or more frequently.

Tom

[charlie]

Tom

Ok no worries

Cheers
Charlie

[Spaice]

Never seen so many C17s in the North London  / bucks area ,already logged these in the last half hour or so, thought I had more but 06-6165 was logged 5 times

03-3113 AE1196, 06-6165 AE1463, 99-0064 AE080A all C17s and 99-0004 ADFEBA B752

[Canonjohns40D]

Hi Spaice could they be related to the Clinton visit? I'm interested as she is due Belfast this afternoon/Evening so we might see some unusual traffic, certainly for NI, across our skies as a result.

What sort of route were these taking please?

John

[Spaice]

Hi Canonjohns40D, I'm unable to verify the route, just picked up an KC-135 62-3550 AE07B9 as I type this, for a Sunday afternoon it is busy with American military.  I am based in Chesham, Bucks,

Now I have 82-0653 AE19EE listed as a Thunderbolt.

[Canonjohns40D]

Cheers Spaice just thought it might give a heads up if they were routed our way. It seems anyhow She may be for Dublin before us here in belfast so probably too dark for pictures.

John

[viking9]

Never seen so many C17s in the North London  / bucks area ,already logged these in the last half hour or so, thought I had more but 06-6165 was logged 5 times

03-3113 AE1196, 06-6165 AE1463, 99-0064 AE080A all C17s and 99-0004 ADFEBA B752

99-0004 ADFEBA is a C-32A callsign SAM5794 and was most likely carrying Mrs Clinton.

Nothing unusual in so many C-17s (and a few C-5s), would be unlikely to be anything to do with Mrs Clinton unless she has taken a battalion of infantry and a few light tanks with her. :o)

03-3113 c/s RCH3113 took westbound route NAVPI>MAM>DIKAS

99-0064 c/s RCH9064 also took the same route

Tom

[Spaice]

And more, C17 04-4134 AE123F RCH224 and 04-4130 AE123B RCH4130, 02-1109 AE117B RCH2109

[viking9]

And more, C17 04-4134 AE123F RCH224 and 04-4130 AE123B RCH4130, 02-1109 AE117B RCH2109

Yep. RCH244 eastbound, RCH4130 and RCH2109 westbound.

Tom

[Spaice]

And another C17 97-0044 AE07F6

 Viking you said that this is not unusual, yet I have not picked up so many over this area. not that I'm complaining though. By the way how are you able to tell the direction of these aircraft as they do not give there location on the map?

[viking9]

And another C17 97-0044 AE07F6

 Viking you said that this is not unusual, yet I have not picked up so many over this area. not that I'm complaining though. By the way how are you able to tell the direction of these aircraft as they do not give there location on the map?

John,

They do on my map! PlanePlotter with multilateration. You don't even have to have a Radarbox or SBS1 but it's nice to share.

Conditions might be particularly good today for you.

97-0044 is RCH9744, came up from Germany and went west routing NAVPI>MAM>GITUS

AE07DE C-17 93-0604 took the same route.

These ac support ops all over the world. The RCH indicates a Global Reach aircraft - Sunday is just like any other day for those guys.

Tom

[Spaice]

Cheers Tom, nice to see them all the same, I was considering PlanePlotter but never got round to it, maybe I should give it some more thought.  Thanks for the info

Steve