What's flying over your house?

it is the mouth of Wilson creek.
big-time basketball school there.

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Live along the southern flights lines for O’Hare and Midway. Get to see the occasional C-130 or other cargo craft, but mostly see Blackhawks of multiple variants from the local NG training areas nearby.
 
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@turkeydance your one screenshot threw me down a rabbit hole, starting with that balloon!
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Then I see the little jet symbol out over OKC area...
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The area is crawling with T-38's! Look at all the delta-wing shapes...
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turkeydance said:
please note.....PRIVATE owner.
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There's an outfit out of the Norfolk area that has their fleet of "aggressor aircraft" for the USN, USAF, USMC to fly against. They all have tail numbers that end in AX. I believe this bird belongs to ATAC. ATAC has these old Hunters, Mirage F-1s, KFIR, and I think 1-2 other airframes. They stage up and down the coast as needed for the DOD. The F-1s just spent a lot of time in the last month flying out of Kinston KISO and off the coast.
 
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There's an outfit out of the Norfolk area that has their fleet of "aggressor aircraft" for the USN, USAF, USMC to fly against. They all have tail numbers that end in AX. I believe this bird belongs to ATAC. ATAC has these old Hunters, Mirage F-1s, KFIR, and I think 1-2 other airframes. They stage up and down the coast as needed for the DOD. The F-1s just spent a lot of time in the last month flying out of Kinston KISO and off the coast.
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There is also a company in Kinston that does the same thing with A-4s.
 
EPIC31 buzzes the house a one or two times a week. They went by a few minutes ago, I pulled up the flight tracker and saw them heading towards Salisbury when they just vanished from the scope. I kept watching, they never reappeared.

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Les White said:
EPIC31 buzzes the house a one or two times a week. They went by a few minutes ago, I pulled up the flight tracker and saw them heading towards Salisbury when they just vanished from the scope. I kept watching, they never reappeared.

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And they're back...


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JohnFreeman said:
Someone flipped the transponder switch?
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Maybe. They might have been down low. They have a few "usual" training paths. The one shown above where they leave CLT and head north is typically done at normal altitude until they get to WV. At that point they hit the deck and return south. When they pass over the house in Farmington they're so low you can see the pilots.
 
Les White said:
Maybe. They might have been down low. They have a few "usual" training paths. The one shown above where they leave CLT and head north is typically done at normal altitude until they get to WV. At that point they hit the deck and return south. When they pass over the house in Farmington they're so low you can see the pilots.
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Many years ago a friend and I were working at a chem plant in Narrows, Va.
We would play golf on a local course and saw A6s flying down low in the valley often.
A local we asked about them said there was a cut in the mountains that they would use to pop over and make runs towards Norfolk/Newport News bases for training.
It was interesting standing on the tee box and watching them fly by just a couple hundred feet or so above the middle of the river twisting and turning in pairs.
Usually there were flights of 4 grouped in pairs.
 
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Watched them come over High Rock Dam yesterday, not terribly great positioning for a good Kodak moment, but it's always cool nonetheless :)



For those of you in the Asheboro region...the eyes of the moon are upon you! For over two hours now as well. I would guess the UPA is shucking and jiving to keep ahead of the G's .

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commiecuriocollector said:
Watched them come over High Rock Dam yesterday, not terribly great positioning for a good Kodak moment, but it's always cool nonetheless :)



For those of you in the Asheboro region...the eyes of the moon are upon you! For over two hours now as well. I would guess the UPA is shucking and jiving to keep ahead of the G's .

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The EC-145 is an medevac/SAR/utility helo, almost always with the national guard.
 
commiecuriocollector said:
Watched them come over High Rock Dam yesterday, not terribly great positioning for a good Kodak moment, but it's always cool nonetheless :)



For those of you in the Asheboro region...the eyes of the moon are upon you! For over two hours now as well. I would guess the UPA is shucking and jiving to keep ahead of the G's .

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EndEx was yesterday.
 
commiecuriocollector said:
Really? I thought that was today. Have they shifted infil back a day now or they chopping days off? I haven't been paying close attention like I used to recently.
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Scenerio ends Wednesday, been that way as long as I've been involved.
 
Johnny said:
Scenerio ends Wednesday, been that way as long as I've been involved.
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Ah gotcha. I've never noted any action later than that, so that makes more sense then. I guess it's just auxiliary breakdown/packup activities I see on thurs/fridays. Thanks for the info. Pender County, so I guess you're with the Elizabethtown crowd then?
 
commiecuriocollector said:
Ah gotcha. I've never noted any action later than that, so that makes more sense then. I guess it's just auxiliary breakdown/packup activities I see on thurs/fridays. Thanks for the info. Pender County, so I guess you're with the Elizabethtown crowd then?
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Jackson Springs area.
 
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Just FYI if anyone is interested and not aware, when you see those guys following that path, south bound, starting at Roanoke and ending a little ways inside SC they are usually running the MTR, Military Training Route, IR721/VR1721. The central NC section generally follows the Yadkin, mainly a 10 mile wide corridor, often times at very low level, under 1000 ASL (yeah not AGL, ASL), and I think that's why they disappear from the crowd sourced "scope".
 
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