What's flying over your house?

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I'm sitting here taking a break and looked at my Flight Radar 24 app, as I often do out of curiosity when I hear aircraft close to me. Lots of interesting things fly around me pretty often but the last 2 prompted this thread.

Feel free to add, I'm going to try and keep this going.

USN Grumman C-2A Greyhound headed NE


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My house is almost directly under the base turn when flights are landing at CLT from the north. Mostly Embraer, CJ, Boeing, Airbus small to medium stuff. Sometimes AA 777s or 330s. I do enjoy sitting on the back deck with a beer and see where everyone is coming from.

Occasionally I see 767, MD11, 747 cargo stuff.

Of course there are the C17s based here as well.

I haven't seen the Antonov here since before Covid I think.
 
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It's crazy how much military traffic is flying over. A good friend is an aviation nut and has all of these apps and whatnot, he tells me when there's interesting stuff around.
 
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Good bit of stuff this afternoon, but not more than normal.
 
"EPIC41" flies over the house about twice a week at all hours of the day at about 1500FT. Rattles the windows.

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Typically leaves CLT and meanders up to the edge of WV at 20kft, turns south and hits the deck on the way back.
 
A few weeks ago a CH53 flew directly over my house. First one that I've been home for, rattled the house worse than a Blackhawk at 1/4 the altitude.
It's somewhat rare that I see rotary wing showing up on the app, this one did. It came from McCall, did a few circles before it passed directly over me.

It was kind of adding insult to injury because just the day before I was supposed to fly on one, likely this same one. Our bird flew over our PZ a few minutes before its expected ETA and never came back. Turns out they had a 'problem' and had to divert to McCall for repairs.

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We live near RDU and see lots of planes.
They are easy to see when they land on 23 left, but 23 right is almost as good.
When they land on 5 left and right we see them takeoff but they are higher and usually make a turn before getting close.
It is fun being able to identify where they came from or are going using flight aware.
 
Les White said:
"EPIC41" flies over the house about twice a week at all hours of the day at about 1500FT. Rattles the windows.

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Typically leaves CLT and meanders up to the edge of WV at 20kft, turns south and hits the deck on the way back.
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I actually saw one of these or something similar (all flat grey) flying so low that I thought it was going to land. Seemed just above the tree tops. But I was out in the country and there was no place even close big enough for them to do so.
 
Tailhunter said:
I actually saw one of these or something similar (all flat grey) flying so low that I thought it was going to land. Seemed just above the tree tops. But I was out in the country and there was no place even close big enough for them to do so.
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Huge, loud, and low. I live out in the country. Look for the Farmington drag strip, I'm about a mile west of there.
 
I saw an Apache (maybe) two days ago and two chinook helicopters flying crazy low yesterday. Didn’t get a pic yesterday but did of the Apache. It was weird but my camera wouldn’t focus on it until it got further away. I figured it was my camera but wondered if the helicopter could mask itself?

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depending upon how Far Up is considered Over Your House....
planes, satellites, birds, insects, meteors, comets, bats, drones,
and a Frisbee on the roof.
 
Flight Aware does not show much military traffic. Only when they use a .civ airport (like the EPIC41 reported above). But if you look around bases there is no traffic.
 
I’m on the flight Plath to Hickory airport. I see all kinds of stuff coming over the house. Blackhawks, Apaches, Shithooks, 53, V-22s, C-130s, C-17s and all kinds of civilia aircraft.
 
Real-time snip just a minute ago. AAL1645 is CLT-RDU. The other plane up the line coming to the airport is MIA-RDU, and it's right over my house on this snip. Imagine my surprise last July when I moved in and discovered FEDEX flight from Memphis arrives at 5:00 am, and then several west coast flights arrive about 5:30 am. They come over the house at about 45 degrees WSW above me at about 1,800 MSL altitude. The first few mornings were exciting, but I don't even hear them now.


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Johnny said:
I'm sitting here taking a break and looked at my Flight Radar 24 app, as I often do out of curiosity when I hear aircraft close to me. Lots of interesting things fly around me pretty often but the last 2 prompted this thread.

Feel free to add, I'm going to try and keep this going.

USN Grumman C-2A Greyhound headed NE


USCG Casa HC-1441 Ocean Sentry headed SE
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I don’t have the app but was outside about 7:00 and two large jets I assume were C-17’s flew over not much higher than a couple thousand feet. I’m in line with the Jacksonville airport and we get commercial flights on that same line all the time but much higher. That was unusual though.


I watch E2c’s fly over everyday if the sky is clear. Their props have a distinct whistle.
 
We get all kinds of interesting traffic over the house here in N. High Point, high and low altitude.

We’re between the approach paths to runways 5L and 5R about 3 miles from the threshold at PTIA. Of course lots of FedEx jumbos but also quite a bit of military traffic.

Last summer I was working on recording the sound of the wake vortices that we can hear from certain aircraft flying over on their approach to land.

I need to get that equipment back out and start trying to capture that sound we hear when the conditions are just right. Very interesting.

Heavy DC-10s produce the loudest and most prominent wake sounds that we have heard. The aircraft is usually already at the runway before we hear the noise.

MD-80 series aircraft also produce prominent wake noise. Surprisingly, we’ve observed CRJ series aircraft with winglets producing very noticeable wake turbulence noise when flying over the house.
 
A rtl-sdr dongle, proper antenna, and dump1090 will get you real time tracking of anything in the area running an ADS-B beacon.

I like using adsbexchange

Currently have a CASA, Blackhawk, and a C130j buzzing around Bragg.

Been watching Ukraine airspace the past few days as well. Seen a globalhawk, Rc135, tankers, etc.
 
We're between 23L & 23R, would see the AA London flight on landing approach, AF1 many times, several E2C's and many unmarked white planes.
My roof is painted red and white.
 
Which is the better app ? FlightAware or FlightRadar
 
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I'm a couple miles from New River Marine air station. I see LOTS of Osprey
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I'm going to be down that way tomorrow.

New River also has the new 53K, longer, wider, taller, and carries 3x the weight. Tomorrow is a federal holiday so I imagine unless it HAS to fly, it won't.
 
EPIC41 did this last night. This happens fairly frequently, they'll head south and repeatedly circle a little airfield in SC.

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Although now that I've zoomed in, they way he's lined up on 24R he could be doing touch and go's.

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dmarbell said:
Real-time snip just a minute ago. AAL1645 is CLT-RDU. The other plane up the line coming to the airport is MIA-RDU, and it's right over my house on this snip. Imagine my surprise last July when I moved in and discovered FEDEX flight from Memphis arrives at 5:00 am, and then several west coast flights arrive about 5:30 am. They come over the house at about 45 degrees WSW above me at about 1,800 MSL altitude. The first few mornings were exciting, but I don't even hear them now.


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Used to hunt all around falls lake on the gamelands. TONS of air traffic and noise. Deer didn't pay it any attention though.
 
Derek8404 said:
At my new place F35’s are constantly flying over. Pretty cool right now, but it’s going to get old really quickly…
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I used to fly my own planes from South Raleigh Airpark to North Myrtle Beach airport up to about 1994 or so, when I was working on a job there. Myrtle Beach was an active base then (not sure about now), and after Fayetteville handed me off to Myrtle Beach control* I would sometimes get "Watch for flight of two A-10s below you at 1,500 feet." I rarely saw them, sometimes I did, but they were like ghosts against the ground.

* Unlike some other pilots who flew around that part of NC, I always talked with a control tower. With military bases at Pope, MB and Seymour, and commercial airports in Raleigh, Fayetteville, Wilmington and MB, I wanted someone to know who and where I was.
 
Did see something pretty cool the other day. The runway runs perpendicular to one of the main roads here in town. My wife and I were driving when I saw an F35 coming straight at us so low that it looked like it was on a direct course to fly through my truck. It passed right over top of us and I felt the force push my truck down a bit.
 
Derek8404 said:
Did see something pretty cool the other day. The runway runs perpendicular to one of the main roads here in town. My wife and I were driving when I saw an F35 coming straight at us so low that it looked like it was on a direct course to fly through my truck. It passed right over top of us and I felt the force push my truck down a bit.
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They are slowly replacing the Harriers at Cherry Point. I am going to be down that way for a long weekend, I was hoping we'd see some aircraft but I forgot you people actually take presidents day off as a federal holiday. I also want to see the new 53K.
 
Chuckman said:
They are slowly replacing the Harriers at Cherry Point. I am going to be down that way for a long weekend, I was hoping we'd see some aircraft but I forgot you people actually take presidents day off as a federal holiday. I also want to see the new 53K.
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You get to see some tomorrow. Monday is the federal holiday.
 
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There is a private company that contracts to the military to provide aggressor aircraft for dog fighting, they are based at an airport in Kinston. They fly the A4, and I think another aircraft.

I miss seeing the A4 in eastern North Carolina when they were stationed at Cherry Point.
 
Derek8404 said:
Did see something pretty cool the other day. The runway runs perpendicular to one of the main roads here in town. My wife and I were driving when I saw an F35 coming straight at us so low that it looked like it was on a direct course to fly through my truck. It passed right over top of us and I felt the force push my truck down a bit.
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Had that happen with a C5, driving past Altus AFB one night, where the runway started/ended maybe 25 yds from the road. Those things are freaking gynormous.

There must've been a flight of several birds, as I saw a couple come in from a distance, but couldn't figure out what the hell those weird lights were. Realized what they were when one came in right over top of me, as I passed the runway. Scared the crap outta me 😆
 
No APP a- but visually I see slot of H-60s in various configurations, H53s also.

Too damn many noisy starch wing things too.
 
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