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Posted: 9/17/2016 11:04:53 AM EDT
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I'm sitting here as we speak tracking three E-6B Mercury and one E-4B Nightwatch aircraft that are airborne over the CONUS. I've only been using this site for about a week now, but thus far I've never seen this many "doomsday' command aircraft airborne at the same time. Go to Global Radar View. Once there, you can select the menu in the top left corner of the radar map, then options, then filter. There you can set it to track only military aircraft if you wish. You can drag the map wherever you want it. I have been alternating back and forth between the U.S. and Europe mostly. |
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There is an A-10 flying around Tangier Sound up the bay.
ETA: 3 of them!! |
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View Quote Awesome! You just never know what is going to pop up or where. I suppose that is what makes this sort of thing so much fun. |
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Very cool - I'm thinking of patching this in to my 70" 4K HDTV so that I can watch it from across the room.
Beats most of what's available on TV any day... |
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hmm, I'm not in Anchorage today, but I find it hard to believe there are no military craft flying in Alaska right now...
I'm guessing that not everything is tracked/ no one in AK is tracking and supplying the info to the website. |
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I keep that an the DWS intel stuff running for the same reason.
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There's a weather balloon over Oracle, AZ right now. I want to believe!!!!
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Heh.
Can't seem to get it to show anything in my AO. NM, got it running now. |
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Neat site..when I worked op's at Connie, we had a cool program we could manipulate..
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It is a lot of fun.
A couple months ago my son and I took a trip to my grandparents near LAX and camped out and watched where all the departures were going. |
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I cant see where to make it only show mil aircraft. Edit: Nevermind, I found it in filters.
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Flight track? I just had a lancaster (or a mitchell) bomber and 3 wwii fighters buzz across the roadway on takeoff from their home base...and did a few low passes in tight formation to boot...it was awsome...
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I keep that an the DWS intel stuff running for the same reason. View Quote Yeah, I have been keeping DWS up as well, along with the liveuamap pages for Ukraine and Syria. Those sources have been bursting with info after today's chain of events in Syria. What a clusterfuck that has become. Are there any other good sites for intel from around the world? Like I said, this stuff is addictive. |
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I like to watch the morning and evening commuter flights from Las Vegas to Area 51 on the radar trackers too
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How is it that anyone can just log on and track military flights?
Do they go off grid if they are on an actual mission or something? |
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I cant see the E-6s anymore. I imagine they can decide not to be tracked.
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How is it that anyone can just log on and track military flights? Do they go off grid if they are on an actual mission or something? View Quote They probably arent always shown or dont have their trackers on. I didnt see any Navy aircraft around me on the screen even though I can hear C-2s and E-2s all day long. Im only about 5 miles as the crow flies from Chambers Field aka NavSta Norfolk. |
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Quoted: hmm, I'm not in Anchorage today, but I find it hard to believe there are no military craft flying in Alaska right now... I'm guessing that not everything is tracked/ no one in AK is tracking and supplying the info to the website. View Quote |
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Spec Ops is on it! http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy47/Gunslinger8O8/69885035-D63E-4E30-9158-5C4D5FF09CEB.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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There's a weather balloon over Oracle, AZ right now. I want to believe!!!! Spec Ops is on it! http://i776.photobucket.com/albums/yy47/Gunslinger8O8/69885035-D63E-4E30-9158-5C4D5FF09CEB.jpg Interdasting. |
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I cant see the E-6s anymore. I imagine they can decide not to be tracked. View Quote More likely is that they flew out of range of the person feeding their mode-S data to the site for that area. If an aircraft is transmitting ADS-B it only requires one receiver for it to be shown on the site. For mode-s only, if there aren't at least three receivers receiving flights simultaneously then it won't show on the site. Once out of range of one it won't be on the map, but it may still show in the list. You will never see US bombers. Occasionally you may see some F-15s in CONUS. There are a few A-10s from the MD ANG that transmit mode-s sometimes and they can be seen working the Patuxent ranges in the evenings |
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They probably arent always shown or dont have their trackers on. I didnt see any Navy aircraft around me on the screen even though I can hear C-2s and E-2s all day long. Im only about 5 miles as the crow flies from Chambers Field aka NavSta Norfolk. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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How is it that anyone can just log on and track military flights? Do they go off grid if they are on an actual mission or something? They probably arent always shown or dont have their trackers on. I didnt see any Navy aircraft around me on the screen even though I can hear C-2s and E-2s all day long. Im only about 5 miles as the crow flies from Chambers Field aka NavSta Norfolk. You're not seeing them because there is no one in or close to that area feeding low altitude mode-s transmissions to the site. |
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I was following a flight into GSP waiting for it to pass overhead as I am in the flight path. The flight disappeared from the radar and I never heard it.
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It's currently showing a military plane doing 13875 knots...
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I was watching a global hawk fly patterns for hours the other day.
Along with an RC135 and multiple KC135's, C-130's and on and on in the last week. The KC call signs are amusing. the only one I can remember at the moment was Happy54. |
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That's what peaked my attention. No location info. Greta be a mistake. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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It's currently showing a military plane doing 13875 knots... 1600 mph roughly Forgot a digit There was a locating briefly. It made sense is all I'm saying. Now it's blank for a location again |
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I'm a feeder with a Raspberry Pi 2. You can get set up for $100 one time, then have premium access on flightradar24, flightaware, and other distribution sites, as well as helping out adsbexchange new MLAT positioning for planes not reporting their exact position (.mil).
Join in, and hopefully, the guys that know a ton about it will also chime in. I tinker with the hardware and linux, not the adsb feeder software. |
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Way cool site. I'm by an airport and am trying to figure out if I can find the flight info on the plane, like it's flight number and compare it to the arriving flights on the airport website. I can visually identify the planes but so far none of the numbers on plane tracking website match up to arriving flight info. About all I can compare is the type of plane such as if it's a 737. Any way to get the actual flight number?
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http://global.adsbexchange.com/ I'm sitting here as we speak tracking three E-6B Mercury and one E-4B Nightwatch aircraft that are airborne over the CONUS. I've only been using this site for about a week now, but thus far I've never seen this many "doomsday' command aircraft airborne at the same time. Go to Global Radar View. Once there, you can select the menu in the top left corner of the radar map, then options, then filter. There you can set it to track only military aircraft if you wish. You can drag the map wherever you want it. I have been alternating back and forth between the U.S. and Europe mostly. View Quote My brother flew those out of Tinker. |
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Omega Aerial Refueling Services
I had no idea there was a commercial air refueling service. Interesting. ETA: Registration # N974VV |
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You're not seeing them because there is no one in or close to that area feeding low altitude mode-s transmissions to the site. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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How is it that anyone can just log on and track military flights? Do they go off grid if they are on an actual mission or something? They probably arent always shown or dont have their trackers on. I didnt see any Navy aircraft around me on the screen even though I can hear C-2s and E-2s all day long. Im only about 5 miles as the crow flies from Chambers Field aka NavSta Norfolk. You're not seeing them because there is no one in or close to that area feeding low altitude mode-s transmissions to the site. That makes sense. They usually don't fly too high since they are doing touch and goes. |
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Way cool site. I'm by an airport and am trying to figure out if I can find the flight info on the plane, like it's flight number and compare it to the arriving flights on the airport website. I can visually identify the planes but so far none of the numbers on plane tracking website match up to arriving flight info. About all I can compare is the type of plane such as if it's a 737. Any way to get the actual flight number? View Quote FlightAware and the others will show you the inbound flights for an airport, then you can pick the closest to what you are expecting/remember. Probably a bit late for your needs, though. |
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Spanish and Ecuadorian military planes over CONUS... weird View Quote Lsat night I saw an American C-17 take off from air port or base; I couldn't tell which. I last saw it over Hungary, southeast bound. Going the Other way was another C-17 more or less westerly bound. Over Merry Ol' England I saw a pair US Air Force KC-135 aircraft. I Saw No Other Military Aircraft Flying Over Europe last night.
Just us Yanks. I caught an airline called - really - W!ZZ. But no other national military aircraft in flight anywhere. |
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I was looking at it today. It didn't show any fighters up in the US at all. T-38s and Texans. Lots of tankers, transports, AWACS, but no fighters/bombers. A Commando Solo, that was interesting. Still interesting though. |
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I was looking at it today. It didn't show any fighters up in the US at all. T-38s and Texans. Lots of tankers, transports, AWACS, but no fighters/bombers. A Commando Solo, that was interesting. Still interesting though. View Quote I just looked and it shows many many more US Military planes up now than it did over the weekend. E-6 and a bunch of E-3's up. Bunch of T-38's too. What are the ones at the bottom of the list with altitude/speed and sometimes call sign, but no other info? |
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