Interesting Military Aircraft

[Canonjohns40D]

Hi all noted this one on my log having got in from work.
AE0411  GOTO FMS 163919 Boeing E-6B Mercury (707-300)  USA - Navy between  2009/08/25 11:58:52 2009/08/25 13:20:55.

Anyone else confirm this or know anything about it?

John

[Allocator]

There is a bit on Wikipedia about these aircraft:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-6_Mercury

They appear regularly on RB live and on the Network as they have full ADS-B

[RodBearden]

I was watching it live on MyFlights - it came down from the west coast of Scotland, did a quick circuit of Wales, and was last seen by me heading east over Manchester airport.

Rod

[tarbat]

I was watching it live on MyFlights - it came down from the west coast of Scotland, did a quick circuit of Wales, and was last seen by me heading east over Manchester airport.

I was out today, but my log shows this aircraft at FL270 with a start position just off the west coast of Orney, finishing just south of EGPU (Tiree).  Almost identical start/end to it's flight on Saturday 22nd.

[viking9]

E-6B 163919 landed at Mildenhall at 15:15L. Radio c/s was RAZZ 33.

Tom

[tarbat]

Got this one at 450ft locally

[neroon79]

I'am just receiving 4 Nato AWACS AC (E3CF) over Germany.

LX-90443
LX-90451 (Flight ID Nato 007)
LX-90453
LX-90454

[DaveReid]

I'am just receiving 4 Nato AWACS AC (E3CF) over Germany.

LX-90443
LX-90451 (Flight ID Nato 007)
LX-90453
LX-90454

I'm afraid your database is wrong - NATO don't have any E3CF aircraft, they are all E3TFs.

[neroon79]

Thank you for the advice. I will ad this item(s) to my database fixing list.

[Canonjohns40D]

Hi  A Belgium Airforce A310-22 44F501 Reg CA-01 flight ID BAF605 currently on the box, ht 38000 hdg 294 sqwk 7160.

John

[Canonjohns40D]

Hi showing on the map NE of Northern Ireland. heading NW is AE0411 USA Navy Boeing E-6B Mercury reg 163919  flight id GOTO FMS ht 34025 hdg 288 sqwk 5031.

John

[pcochrane12]

hi all
couple of visitors showing here in northumberland
33ffe8 italian airforce c130-j
3f9988 french navy nord n-262e

paul

[jgrloit]

3F9988 is German - a Transall 160   - I think your system is suffering from Photographic information corruption due to the Non-Unique Registration being used to key the request for a Photograph, and then using the information attached to the photo to overwrite the correct information from GATS.

[DaveReid]

3F9988 is German - a Transall 160   - I think your system is suffering from Photographic information corruption due to the Non-Unique Registration being used to key the request for a Photograph, and then using the information attached to the photo to overwrite the correct information from GATS.

And the Aeronavale Frégate (no 51) that RadarBox comes up with is WFU, so there's no way it could be that aircraft.

Unfortunately, the incorrect aircraft details/photos bug isn't scheduled to be fixed in V3, but once that's released the signs are looking good for a solution in the not-too-distant future.

[tarbat]

Unfortunately, the incorrect aircraft details/photos bug isn't scheduled to be fixed in V3, but once that's released the signs are looking good for a solution in the not-too-distant future.

Dave, is that wishful thinking, or have Airnav given some sort of firm commitment to fix this?   Maybe planned to be included in Airnav Flightwatch?