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[dmccarty]

Now we got Russian helicopters flying around out here along with the Russian drone.

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Hmmmm. That is interesting.

I know the US has a bunch Russian aircraft that we have been flying for decades. Some of the history on how the aircraft was aquired is kinda interesting. I figured the Russian drone was someone's joke, but maybe it is something that came down in Ukraine and is now being tested.

 

[dmccarty]

Finally saw an F35 pop up on ADS-B today. It was only there for a short time and then disappeared. There are/were four Hunters in the screen shot along with the F35 and the DC10 tanker. After this screen shot, The tanker, F35, and most of the hunters disappeared but a couple of Kfirs showed up offshore.

 

[orezok]

Reaper training

 

[bcp]

Not FR24, but...

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Bruce

 

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Not FR24, but...

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Bruce

harrier and... SEPECAT Jaguar?

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[dmccarty]

This past week I have seen quite a bit of flights around and over Fort Bragg. Looks like they are dong parachute drops on the landing zones on the west side of the base. Major state roads go through that part of the base and one can drive right next to the drop zones. I watched these two C17s and FOUR C130s flying around for an hour or so. The C17s and C130s flew a different route to the landing zone, but then lined up and few on in. This was at night.

The zig zags in the track is noise/inaccurate and I assume they dropped on the western most landing zone. The other thing that was interesting, was that once they got really close to to the LZ, the planes would turn off their transponder and go dark. The tanker aircraft disappear from time to time, and I assume they are doing that, as they start to refuel.

 

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What I want to know is,
what did the pilots of AFL1788 see?

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[dmccarty]

What I want to know is,
what did the pilots of AFL1788 see?

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My "assumption" is that they see what we see or something similar. Maybe a pilot will tell us for sure.

Vessels have a similar system called AIS which shows other vessels, speed, heading, size, destination, status, etc., IF the crew decides to fill in the data and turn on the system. Commercial vessels are required to have an AIS transmitter and receiver. Non commercial does not have this requirement. Some boats will carry the transmitter and receiver, others will just have the receiver so they can see other traffic, which is kinda silly since the bigger traffic is what can run you over if they don't see you....

AIS will tell one if there is a collision on a given course and speed and allows one to see other traffic which is really helpful. Radar will do the same so having both is very useful.

 

[dmccarty]

Saw this last week. Lots of tankers were up as was an E3 AWACS. I think there was P8 up and the contract fighters were offshore. The tankers, E3, and contract fighters implies there was some fighters up and about that were not showing up.

 

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My "assumption" is that they see what we see or something similar. Maybe a pilot will tell us for sure.

Vessels have a similar system called AIS which shows other vessels, speed, heading, size, destination, status, etc., IF the crew decides to fill in the data and turn on the system. Commercial vessels are required to have an AIS transmitter and receiver. Non commercial does not have this requirement. Some boats will carry the transmitter and receiver, others will just have the receiver so they can see other traffic, which is kinda silly since the bigger traffic is what can run you over if they don't see you....

AIS will tell one if there is a collision on a given course and speed and allows one to see other traffic which is really helpful. Radar will do the same so having both is very useful.

I refer to AFL1788 being not very far behind the airplane carrying Prigozhin that was likely shot down. They were on the same flight path, similar altitudes; AFL1788 wasn't that far behind the ill-fated flight, which at least on my browser at the link provided showed the playback of the last moments: