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23 Sep, 4 tweets, 3 min read
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ The #RCAF #14WingGreenwood newsletter "The Aurora" is really well done; newsletters feel pre-digital to me, but I'm not anti-newsletter. I can't help but read these articles about #413SQN #SAR and know they'd make fantastic Twitter content.

auroranewspaper.com
If #14WingGreenwood was interested in publicising the tempo of their SAR operations w/ @hfxjrcc they could investigate transmitting ADS-B from their CH-149, CC-130H, and other aircraft. Mode-S alone doesn't transmit lat/lon, and reduces public visibility of their operations.
Yes, I'd love them to start using ADS-B with the CP-140M Block 4 fleet too, but I don't think they're going to improve the visibility of our sub-hunters, which are extremely busy on ops and exercises, and hardly ever mentioned in the news.
PS, If you're a Canadian defence journalist I have bad news for you (that you already knew), you have to read each base's newsletter since there is no central way for you to find out what's going on across the Canadian Armed Forces. Silos aren't just for grain. Great, eh?

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Steffan Watkins πŸ“‘βœˆοΈ Profile picture
23 Sep
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ I know you want to know more about how the sausage is made, so look carefully at this image from 2021-09-22, yesterday, when RCAF CC-130J 130610 was flying some training flights over Ontario, and see what information you can extract.

I'll show you:
globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=c2b585&l…
The network of transponder receivers collects the data the plane is transmitting with an omnidirectional antenna. Any plane using ADS-B, like that one, only needs to be "heard" by one ground station and it's coordinates (from their transponder) relayed to #ADSBexchange.
The green circles show where receivers (which the operators of have opted to make their location public, like I have) are feeding the ADSBexchange network from.
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Steffan Watkins πŸ“‘βœˆοΈ Profile picture
22 Sep
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡΄ Someone with better intel on Canadian-Colombian military relations might recognize what these flights are indicative of; I don't. Before I lose track of which Royal Canadian Air Force CC-130J transports flew to #Colombia in September for an exercise(?), lets document them.
First, remember that the RCAF CC-130H fleet stay at home like red headed step children; they do SAR and other domestic taskings. We just need to watch where the CC-130J fleet has been internationally.

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ #RCAF CC-130J Fleet:
globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=c2b52b,c…
Secondly, remember that a callsign stays the same for an entire mission; same callsign, same mission. Dropping off/picking up the same people, returning from dropping things off, or brining things back; it would all be one callsign.

Sequential call-signs are usually related too.
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Steffan Watkins πŸ“‘βœˆοΈ Profile picture
21 Sep
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ As part of today's #NORAD exercise, the part of the tanker will be played by #RCAF CC-150T 15004, now taxiing at #CYOW, showing the game is afoot.

iirc they used a Learjet as the unknown potentially hostile aircraft to intercept last time...

#C2B3C3
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It was a Top Aces jet last year(?), so I'd guess this exercise is using the same contract vehicle.

Do I already have a list of Top Aces planes tho...
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Well well, we have a gaggle of Top Aces fighters taking off from Bagotville. CHETA callsigns.

globe.adsbexchange.com
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Steffan Watkins πŸ“‘βœˆοΈ Profile picture
15 Aug
"Contract Surveillance Plane Caught Flying in a Grid Pattern Over Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium"

by Scott Boyd, NOQreport 2021-08-14

(Sponsored by MyPillow, JFC)

WAYBACK MACHINE LINK πŸ‘‡
web.archive.org/web/2021081503…
I desperately don't want to go over this paragraph by paragraph debunking it; the effort is high, payoff is low.

Because QAnon influencer and #disinfo-spreading rube #MonkeyWerx suckered @boydscott into publishing this, I guess I have publish something so others don't get taken.
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ The American-registered 1979 Cessna 310-R N314HB is owned by Marc Inc, a surveying company that takes multispectral aerial photography, and can be seen quite frequently seen doing just that, all over CONUS. Their operations over Sioux Falls on 2021-08-11 are not unusual at all
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Steffan Watkins πŸ“‘βœˆοΈ Profile picture
13 Aug
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Some #RAF Logistics in/out of #Afghanistan, August 2021 edition.

2021-08-02 Z
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ RAF C-17 #ZZ177 #43C6B8 callsign #NAG09XT flew to Afghanistan, and out again, then back to the UK.

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2021-08-11 Z
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ RAF C-17 #ZZ174 #43C174 callsign #NAG23XT flew to Afghanistan.

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2021-08-12 Z
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ RAF C-17 ZZ174 43C174 callsign #NAG23XT flew out of Afghanistan,
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ RAF C-17 ZZ174 #43C174 callsign NAG24XT flew back in,
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ #RAF C-17 #ZZ174 43C174 callsign #NAG24XT flew back out.

(headed back to the UK 2021-08-13)

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Steffan Watkins πŸ“‘βœˆοΈ Profile picture
24 Jul
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ On July 22, 2021 United States Southern Command gave a clinic on how to identify a flight that is worthy of additional attention.
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ United States Air Force C-17A Globemaster III 95-0102 took off from Joint Base Charleston (or somewhere in that area) at ~21:30 Z using Mode-S, which is unusual; they use Mode-S when they don't want to be as noticeable, like over Iraq.
#AE07E5 #RCH233
Because they were using Mode-S, their location had to be geolocated using multilateration (MLAT) and only a few coordinates were seen from the ADSBexchange network.

πŸ“Œ 21:37 Z 12,450 ft (32.747794, -79.603876)
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