Logs from February 28th. A little bit of excitement in the evening, as ETHYL16 lost some tire tread conducting a touch & go at Manchester, and was unsure if they had lost the whole tire or even the tire and rim. The recording below is ETHYL16 talking to HAMMER, the Safety of Flight at the command post.
Full screen version of the logs can be found here.
Well, Tuesday was busy, and Wednesday was dead quiet. Almost nothing heard at all, and just a few flights passing through. There’s a little bit of overlap in these logs due the fact that Tuesday’s covered midnight-midnight local time, and I’ve switched it up to midnight-midnight GMT. You can view the full-screen version here.
Busy day out there. Large amount of military traffic in general, and neat to catch the Israeli 707 and the Swedish SIGINT plane. To view in full screen, click here.
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Scanners:
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Mode S and radio logs for February 4th. All times are in GMT. Entries highlighted in red were heard on the radio. Scroll waaaay over to the right to view notes, frequencies, etc. First sheet is military only, second sheet is everything I picked up. Heard some air-air from the Swedish Gripens inbound to Bangor from Offutt.
