Interesting Military Aircraft

[WAL 2T]

FYI Exercise in progress at the moment is "Wycombe Warrior" running until Thursday. Most of the A/G action is at Spade.

Foreign a/c involved: FAF Mirages and Rafales,  GAF Tornado IDS, F16s from US, Belgium and Norway. Eyes peeled :)

[viking9]

Been tracking on PP Mlat 43C2E1 Pilatus PC-9 ZG969. This aircraft is used by BAe to train pilots contracted to the Royal Saudi Air Force to instruct on the type. Some 50 were supplied to RSAF under the Al Yamamah deal.

[Canonjohns40D]

I'm back PC repaired and more importantly the Radarbox repaired.

Up now is 43C2AD a RAF Puma HC1 ZJ954 VTX025.

Ahh it feels good, it realy feels good to be doing this.

John

[Canonjohns40D]

Hi up now 43C3A0 RAF E3 Sentry AW1 ZH102.

John

[Canonjohns40D]

Hi up now is AE11D0 a USAF E3B Sentry 76-1606 Shuck80H.

John

[Canonjohns40D]

Hi on the box now 43C1BF a RAF Tristar L-1011-385-3 KC1 ZD948 c/s BDN51.

John

[freqhopping]

What is it with the QID KC-135s that they display a flightID?
Earlier this week I had QID99 58-0100. 

Yesterday and currently I have another KC-135 with a flightID, KANZA96 63-7977 which just departed KADW.

[Canonjohns40D]

Hi all up now C03A7E Canforce Airbus CC150 Polaris c/s CFC4133 15003. Plus two USAf AE0561 C5B Galaxy 85-0004 and AE0606 C130H c/s RCH037 80-0332.

John

[Canonjohns40D]

HI two Reach flights both North American Airlines Eastbound tracking across Dublin AA1B36 RCH830 757-28A N750NA and AA5548 RCH824 767-306ER N765NA.

John

[WAL 2T]

What is it with the QID KC-135s that they display a flightID?
Earlier this week I had QID99 58-0100. 

Yesterday and currently I have another KC-135 with a flightID, KANZA96 63-7977 which just departed KADW.

Depends whether or not the crew enter the flight id in the FMS/Transponder panel before departure. Under Eurocontrol regs the id should be set and match what is entered in the flight plan so perhaps the aircraft in question are Europe bound. Not sure what the FAA policies are in this respect.

[freqhopping]

Depends whether or not the crew enter the flight id in the FMS/Transponder panel before departure. Under Eurocontrol regs the id should be set and match what is entered in the flight plan so perhaps the aircraft in question are Europe bound. Not sure what the FAA policies are in this respect.

The thing with KC-135s and maybe some other airframes are that they do have an ID programmed, it's just that the Radarbox doesn't decode it.  The SBS will.  This is one of the bugs to be fixed in 2.1.  That's why this is odd to me.  I've logged 64 different KC-135 since March 28 when I dumped old MyLog data.   These are the first two I've got an ID for.  Someone else in the area with an SBS always get the IDs.

[WAL 2T]

Roger that. 5 out of 16 KC135s with IDs here in my log... thanks for pointing that issue out in the 2.1 development btw as I was a bit baffled as to why aircraft have been  popping up all over the place without Flight IDs.

[Canonjohns40D]

Hi up now 43C0A5 RAF VC10C1K XR808 RRR2014.

John

[Canonjohns40D]

HI AE0138 USAF KC-135A 57-1435 up now.

John

[Canonjohns40D]

Another USAF Tanker AE04FE KC-135R C/sQID99 58-0100 up now.

John