Apaches

Location : Irvine North Ayrshire Spotter Watch Member : no

Hey folks noticed on Scramble site, Apaches for lossie for joint warrior, take it they are going to appear next week? Unsure/Confused

Dougie strength and honour Smile

Location : edinburgh Spotter Watch Member : no

Apache arriving at EDI this evening for refuel enroute Lossiemouth....not sure how many are due but expected to depart EDI about 1800 I think.

Location : Irvine North Ayrshire Spotter Watch Member : no

Excellent Ross thanks for that, take you were up at leuchars yesterday, i was the guy with the tea cosy on,the skinny one .
Dougie strength and honour

Subject: Re: Apaches 2009-05-14, 10:26

seen 1 departing as i arrived at 5.00. Sorry no number has anybody any more information please. Was this 1 of 1 or the last or first of more.
Thanks in advance
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Location : Elgin Spotter Watch Member :

Not on topic but does anyone know what took off from Lossiemouth at 10:45L this morning? (looked like an F-16)

Location : United Kingdom Spotter Watch Member : No

Drat wished I'd seen this live quite close to EDI mind you was probably en-transit from work......

Subject: Re: Apaches 2009-05-14, 12:11

The Edinburgh Apache was callsign AAC782 and was in the airport computer as being ZJ173, however, someone in Dunfermline reported it as ZJ170. Unless there are 2! If I hear of a mark one eyeball reading, I'll post it.
Dave

Subject: Re: Apaches 2009-05-14, 12:48

Alright dave! I'm back up in edi at 7 am so I'm hoping we get a few more stopping off or atleast some through the overhead! Is that USAF citation still there?

Location : Irvine North Ayrshire Spotter Watch Member : no

Rumour is there might be 6 apaches heading to lossie ,but as is say believe it when i see it!!!
Dougie strength and honour.

Spotter Watch Member : NO

Had AA782 on the radio this afternoon,said he was going to Dishforth,was on sbs as ZJ170.

Alan

Subject: Re: Apaches 2009-05-14, 13:47

166500 is still at Edinburgh. Due out at 0900 tomorrow.
Hope we get some more Apaches tomorrow as well, unfortunately I won't be able to post advance notice.
Dave

Subject: Re: Apaches 2009-05-21, 03:05

Anyone got a list of the Apache's serials ?
(ZJ189,206 and 222 were noted on SBS yesterday)

Subject: Re: Apaches 2009-05-21, 06:01

"166500 is still at Edinburgh. Due out at 0900 tomorrow.
Hope we get some more Apaches tomorrow as well, unfortunately I won't be able to post advance notice.
Dave"

where is it parked up Dave?...near the PP Falcon?

Subject: Re: Apaches 2009-05-21, 06:02

"166500 is still at Edinburgh. Due out at 0900 tomorrow.
Hope we get some more Apaches tomorrow as well, unfortunately I won't be able to post advance notice.
Dave"

where is it parked up Dave?...near the PP Falcon?

Subject: Re: Apaches 2009-05-21, 12:06

This thread is titled "Apaches" in the Lossie section,what's 166500 at Edinburgh got to do with it ?

Location : East Suffolk Spotter Watch Member : yes

Hi Mike, can confirm that one of the serials was 189 but the others were impossible to confirm, im 50% sure another was ZJ219 but thats it. Considering I used to live in Yeovil when they were built and now live near Wattisham I have a pathetic amount of confirmed Apaches! Saying that though, one of the few I have is ZJ189 Wink

Location : Elgin Spotter Watch Member :

1 is ZJ173

Subject: Re: Apaches 2009-05-22, 02:08

I see that even the local news spotted the Apaches over Inverness on Wednesday - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8059799.stm

They were VERY active on the Tain Range - very impressive. I had 4 Apaches logged on my Radarbox below 200ft, so active on the Tain Range yesterday (Thursday). They all did several sorties into the range on different callsigns.

ModeS / Reg / Callsigns
43C252 ZJ189 PANTHER2, CARNAGE2, P83
43C263 ZJ206 PANTHE81, CARNAGE2
43C270 ZJ219 CARNAGE1, P84
43C273 ZJ222 PANTHER1, PANTHER2, PANTHE82, CARNAGE1

Location : East Suffolk Spotter Watch Member : yes

Thanks for that but we now have 5 numbers for 4 aircraft! Mad

I think as I confirmed 189 and MAcc confirmed 173, plus 219 looks very likely as another, we have have a dodgy sbs box in one of the Apaches! Any updates?

Subject: Re: Apaches 2009-05-22, 02:26

urkles wrote:: Thanks for that but we now have 5 numbers for 4 aircraft! I think as I confirmed 189 and MAcc confirmed 173, plus 219 looks very likely as another, we have have a dodgy sbs box in one of the Apaches! Any updates?

Depends how the registrations were "confirmed". Yes, we may have the ModeS / Registration tie-up wrong, although I've checked several sources to check the registrations. We can be sure that the 4 ModeS hex code listed were active on the Tain Range. But we need visual confirmation to be 100% sure about the registrations. Was anyone spotting at the range yesterday?

Hopefully they'll be active on the range today, and I'll get my bins out.

Subject: Re: Apaches 2009-05-22, 02:37

Okay, 2 Apaches just entered the range, but I can't confirm the registrations from The Port. Need someone on the range to confirm. I've got 43C20C (unknown) and 43C273 (ZJ222) operating as PANTHER1 and PANTHER3, currently at 120ft. Both squawking 3732, and on 339.80. So, 5 different ModeS hexcodes have now been in use, so maybe 5 aircraft.

43C252 (ZJ189) has now joined them as PANTHER2, and we can hear the gunfire.

Location : Elgin Spotter Watch Member :

urkles wrote:: Thanks for that but we now have 5 numbers for 4 aircraft! I think as I confirmed 189 and MAcc confirmed 173, plus 219 looks very likely as another, we have have a dodgy sbs box in one of the Apaches! Any updates?

There is 5 and all 5 have been going up for each mission as 2x 2 ships and a singleton.

Macc

Subject: Re: Apaches 2009-05-22, 03:02

According to Scotavnet 173 comes up as 170 on SBS,but as Macc says it has been eye-balled as 173.

Subject: Re: Apaches 2009-05-22, 03:08

3 have departed from Kinloss at 09.45 as "Panther" ,and are heading to Leuchars.

Location : East Suffolk Spotter Watch Member : yes

I see, this is my error based on assumption ( dont assume anything!!! Razz

) as I saw 4 arrive Monday with Puma XW223 I assumed there was only 4 detached, my mistake, wish I knew what those 4 were though!