Thread by @steffanwatkins

🇨🇦 It should be pretty easy to prove the American-registered ISR aircraft conducting surveillance over Ottawa in late January and early February was not related to the convoy. A course plan? Any documentation re: booking the training?
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A timeline of the "trucker" occupation of Ottawa from CTV 👇
ctvnews.ca/canada/freedom…

2022-01-25
#N330TT appears out of nowhere over Metcalf at 3000ft, lands at #YOW; it made it that far without being detected by open source flight trackers. That's suspicious; private aircraft can't do that.
We know now it's a spook plane, not just private.
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2022-01-27 Thursday
#N330TT takes off, starts to circle over Ottawa, and vanishes; impossible without tampering with the transponder. They were not seen landing, they kept their transponder in the state they made it invisible with. (possibly off, or Mode-C, etc)
#A3978A #CAVE033

You may notice that the callsign of what is alleged to be a #CANSOFCOM "training" flight has changed callsigns to #CAVE033, which was not the callsign used during transit, which is normal, they're now conducting the mission, I mean, training.

2022-01-28
By now the "convoy" people are arriving, and the "training" over Ottawa is in its 2nd day.
They took off in secret, were detected at 17:28Z, landing at YOW, for lunch and a bio-break I suspect.

#CAVE033 took off again ~18:37Z, and vanished after they started circling.

2022-01-29
#CAVE033 managed to take off from #CYOW and fly well into New York State before turning their transponder to its normal operating mode, using ADS-B. That's very unusual. They flew back to Hagerstown Regional Airport (HGR), their home base.
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🇨🇦 Hon. Cheryl Gallant, MP
(Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke, ON)
Question Period 2022-05-04 c/o CPAC

🇨🇦 Hon. Kerry-Lynne Findlay, MP
(South Surrey-White Rock, BC)
Question Period 2022-05-04 c/o CPAC

🇨🇦 Hon. Rachel Thomas, MP
(Lethbridge, AB)
Question Period 2022-05-04 c/o CPAC

2022-02-03
American-registered King Air #N330TT ISR aircraft 🪄 appeared near Ottawa #CYOW, back from Hagerstown Regional Airport (HGR) for more CANSOFCOM "training", and took off at ~18:16Z, vanishing 1 minute after take-off over Ottawa; not a reception issue.

#A3978A #CAVE033

2022-02-10
American-registered King Air #N330TT ISR aircraft 🪄 appeared over Ottawa #CYOW ~15:27Z, meaning their transponder wasn't using the normal ADS-B setting until then; they'd landed the night before, and taken off again, without using ADS-B.

#A3978A #CAVE033

2022-02-11
N330TT landed at YOW ~17:56, which sounds like a lunch break. NB There was no take-off, they didn't have their ADS-B transponder on for part of the day, or were using a mode we can't frequently see publicly (Mode-C?), then went to Buffalo after lunch.

Seems like the kind of thing there would be receipts for, showing the training was scheduled well ahead of time and had nothing to do with the "truckers", no?

Weird that the plane obfuscates its movements, that goes against previous #RCAF domestic policy.

https://twitter.com/globeandmail/status/1522029833944854529

If you noticed a unmarked cop car driving around and around your neighbourhood at night with its headlights off and the window down, asked them what they were doing, and they said "training", wouldn't that be suspicious to you? It may be legal, but it's also needlessly dangerous.

No aircraft in Canadian airspace act like the American-registered aircraft that was allegedly being used for a CANSOFCOM training flight.

The RCMP don't. Neither do the OPP, Saskatoon PD, Calgary PD, +others.

It's *extremely* remarkable that they'd toy with their transponder.

Similar training over Kamloops, Quebec, Petawawa, and other locations normally operate with their transponder on and visible to the public the whole time, because it's just training, and obfuscating RCAF aircraft movements in Canadian domestic airspace is against their policy.

Quite a pickle; it's not disinformation or misinformation, there was, actually, an American-registered customized ISR aircraft, apparently operated by CANSOFCOM, hanging out over Ottawa for many days during the "trucker" occupation of downtown Ottawa. 🤷‍♂️

https://twitter.com/davidakin/status/1521925131043590146

"The RCAF does not hide the identify of its aircraft and always respects civilian transportation procedures and regulations when it comes to the operation of military aircraft in domestic civilian airspace.”
-RCAF LCol Adam Thomson

(Published 2020-09-13)
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This is what a day with the Calgary police helicopters looks like from the point of view of their geolocated Mode-S transponder. They're using an electro optical sensor to get eyes on the perps below and support their police on the ground, and fly comparatively erratically.

Helicopters aren't the same as planes, so let's look at the Saskatoon police; you notice their Cessna's flight path is smoother, they don't make the same tight turns, but they're still nimble, using an ADS-B transponder broadcasting their exact location.
Visual surveillance again

How about RCMP surveillance aircraft?

I can't tell if they're using a digital elctro-optical sensor or if they're collecting signals intelligence. Their pattern is clearly showing an area of interest, they're not chasing the target around.

What about the OPP?

It's also quite clear what they were looking at during the "trucker" occupation of Ottawa. They have a digital electro-optical sensor too, and had to keep their targets in their field of view.

All of these Federal, Provincial, and Municipal law enforcement organisations have to abide by Canadian aviation rules, and do, which allows us to follow them while they work with very basic computer equipment listening to their transponders.

So, when an alleged CANSOFCOM "training" flight almost immediately turns off, or otherwise obfuscates, their ADS-B transponder emissions immediately after taking off from #CYOW, as this one did, it is very suspicious and draws my full attention.

https://twitter.com/steffanwatkins/status/1522088678834778112

When the same aircraft on January 28 2022 was circling downtown, the day the "trucker" occupation really started ramping up, they didn't obfuscate their position for the entire time, and we saw a few of their circles before they shut off the feed.

https://twitter.com/steffanwatkins/status/1522002303351496705

There is a non-zero chance this is true, and I don't think it's crazy to ask for evidence, proof, of a pre-arranged series of training flights, spread over weeks, which is what we are being told aircraft was taking part in.

https://twitter.com/koloproductions/status/1522005558475251712

Does anyone want to ask the Canadian Government how many unwitting citizens of Ottawa were participating in the unannounced #CANSOFCOM training that was going on above #Ottawa with contracted ISR aircraft in January and February 2022? If it wasn't the convoy, who was the target?