Planefag report, 22nd June 2018
More than Enough Spoop To Go Around Edition
So much to talk about today. I caught a no call sign plane early today that thruend itself into JM35. This is a MC-12 Liberty Surveillance plane and certainly worth watching. As of 1430Z today it was headed to Prestwick in Scotland, as it will need to refuel before heading out further. There were a LOT of Duke callsign planes out today.
Part 2
Some more Dukes captures and a short glimpse of 2-ZERO that I caught.
Part 3
Some more 2-planes. 2-=MAPZ didn't appear to be mapping today.
Part 4
2-GOLF and 2-JBMF were active again today. 2-JBMF appeared to be running a shuttle service.
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More 2-JBMF and 2-RBTS, who managed to make it back from Kirkwall to Kemble then batted all over the place.
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The Irish were being strange and had to meet up with others in Luxembourg.
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More strangeness. There was a different 'feel' to today's traffic.
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Even more oddness…
Part 9
That's all (all?) for now, folks!
The air traffic was definitely 'nervous' today, if that makes any sense. Lots of planes wanting to get lost among others, so as not to be noticed.
Unfortunately, I've become quite good at spotting them now…
Attention Planefags
New Source of Spoopy Planes Found
During today's scanning, I discovered another outfit that warrants a coat of looking at - Air Service Liege of Belgium/Netherlands.
I did think it odd that they didn't seem to be involved but they do indeed have their own 'special services' airline.
http://www.aslgroup.eu/
The website is very glossy and designed to attract big money. Unfortunately for them, I managed to find a lot of their fleet and I'll post their tail markings in Planefagging 101
There was an ADS-B blackout at 1240 today and I lost all traffic. Not sure but it could be notable.
Baker please consider this as notable
There were definite meetings in Guernsey and Luxembourg today. You'll be able to make out that Brits, Germans, Finns and Irish met in Luxembourg. Those are just the one that I can prove were there.
The Itrish and RAF also went to Guernsey, as did 2-RBTS and 2-LIVE that left Amsterdam. These have to be meetings related to money, or why else would they be there?
I was busy posting the images earlier to get them in the same bread and I intended to follow up with more context later, OK?
The US military had a lot more 'intent' today with lots more Duke flights than normal. The MC-12 surveillance plane (JM35) flying up Europe could well have been listening to the radio traffic between these planes during the day.
I realise that sometimes it's all about context. Some people are pacicking and realising that they may be about to lose everything and are thinking about where to move assets etc. before they get seized in the sweep up.
Those seven ATR-72s in the Netherlands and Germany are waiting for something…
Can we ask Q if he knows about these spoopy planes and what can be done about them as part of their operations?
Baker, have you caught everything from today's planedfagging? Over.
Roger that.
Confirming GAF 1403 landing at Berloin and US JM35 landing at Prestwick.
On the contrary, some of us can be quite eloquent, erodite and well-red. Don't tar us all with that brush…
That would have been much better if I had spelled 'read' correctly…fail.
He could be standing alone #in North Korea and we would probably be able to see him from space. Maybe a meme in this?