Army mainly pilot training out of Fort Rucker. There's always a lot of military chopper & small aircraft activity around the Alabama Florida & Georgia border area.
There is also a lot of military/navy bases in the Florida panhandle that add to the congestion.
TY. That is just the main ones there are a bunch of others too like Duke Field. I couldn't be arsed to list them all. kek.
Peace.
Planefag. out.
Airliners don't have keys. Most normies wouldn't be able to figure out what switches & buttons to hit to get it started up.
Many people working on the ground at airports have some experience of flying in & controlling light aircraft or playing around in the flight simulators, cadging flights during maintenance flight tests etc. It is one of the perks of the job.
It might be just a routine flight for government personnel & servicemen/women & their families.
Oakland (OAK) Calif-Andrews.
JSOC @ Joint Base Andrews?
We're at cross purposes I was replying about BSK callsign from Oakland to JBA. No worries confusion over.
Gulfstream does about 5-600 kts mach0.95 approx. F-15 does 1500+kts mach 2+ Missles go much faster. It would be a short chase.
You probably don't realise that many airline co-pilots have their first real flight on a plane full of paying passengers.
Nearly all training is done on simulators.
Even desktop simulators can give very realistic training.
So I am not surprised.