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fatkat

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Re: Interesting Military Aircraft
« Reply #1080 on: May 20, 2010, 03:30:28 PM »
no idea !


but there's  loads of usaf activity today   mostly heavy lift stuff 13 so far globmasters & galaxy's  plus kc135's


 ...any ideas ?

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Re: Interesting Military Aircraft
« Reply #1081 on: May 20, 2010, 06:29:10 PM »
Yes I got both of the GR9's here too.
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Re: Interesting Military Aircraft
« Reply #1082 on: May 28, 2010, 04:49:47 PM »
I have 2x BLUE42 showing on this screenshot, is this normal?
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Re: Interesting Military Aircraft
« Reply #1083 on: May 28, 2010, 04:58:05 PM »
I have 2x BLUE42 showing on this screenshot, is this normal?

Either two different aircraft using the same Mode S Flight ID (unlikely, but possible), or an instance of the "hex code confusion" bug.
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Re: Interesting Military Aircraft
« Reply #1084 on: May 28, 2010, 05:02:20 PM »
On the ball again Dave.
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Re: Interesting Military Aircraft
« Reply #1085 on: May 28, 2010, 05:15:11 PM »

Either two different aircraft using the same Mode S Flight ID (unlikely, but possible), or an instance of the "hex code confusion" bug.

Hello

I would think" hex code confusion" would be unlikely since it normally only affects aircraft that have one or two bits different (these have 5).

AE05AA-   101011100000010110101010
AE0681-   101011100000011010000001

Also I find a lot of military (and sometimes civilian) callsigns aren't   what they should be. Whether it is a typing mistake, a 0 instead of O (loganair are bad for this)or a pilot thinking he is being funny by using something vulgar etc. so I  suppose it would be far from impossible to get two blue42s at the same time

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Re: Interesting Military Aircraft
« Reply #1086 on: May 28, 2010, 05:20:58 PM »
Wouldn`t be a pair/2 ship formation?
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Re: Interesting Military Aircraft
« Reply #1087 on: May 28, 2010, 09:10:43 PM »
Wouldn`t be a pair/2 ship formation?

It was indeed a 2 ship, came in from the West, 2nd aircraft tucked in 500' below the other almost nose to tail. Second ship later changed to BLUE41 for landing at EGUN.

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Re: Interesting Military Aircraft
« Reply #1088 on: June 04, 2010, 04:39:21 PM »
216 Sqdn Tristar showing all.  Yippee  (Ex 216 entry Brat)

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Re: Interesting Military Aircraft
« Reply #1089 on: June 10, 2010, 06:01:31 PM »
MCE4 L1011 ZD949 currently over the Bristol Channel in a racetrack pattern FL400
12m SE of EGHI

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Re: Interesting Military Aircraft
« Reply #1090 on: June 10, 2010, 07:31:26 PM »
Showing on mine as MCE4 airtest perhaps?
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Re: Interesting Military Aircraft
« Reply #1091 on: June 10, 2010, 07:46:50 PM »
just lost him descending through 6000 heading in the direction of Brize Norton
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Re: Interesting Military Aircraft
« Reply #1092 on: June 11, 2010, 10:10:20 AM »
This ac has been airtesting for weeks now. MCE4 is a Marshalls of Cambridge c/s. Ac is there for upgrade, mainly avionics. It's the third one of the fleet in, six to go.

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Re: Interesting Military Aircraft
« Reply #1093 on: June 18, 2010, 06:07:40 PM »
A quick question.

There was a VC-10 doing an hour's worth of circuits at Warton this morning. I was at work nearby and took some snaps with my compact camera. My computer wasn't on, so I have no RadarBox record.

Can anyone confirm that it was ZA149, which was around when turned my computer on this afternoon?

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Re: Interesting Military Aircraft
« Reply #1094 on: June 18, 2010, 06:34:01 PM »
Picked her up on mine, using callsign WFD02
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