FAO Farnborough Spotters

[Eric Mc]

Trevatanus said:

Morning all,

I am told that Farnborough is getting a couple of V22 Ospreys from the USS IWO Jima today 1245 / 1330 and 1730 / 1800

Will keep an eye out for them.
At least the snow has cleared up and the sky is getting blue.

[ecsrobin]

Where’s the ship currently? South coast?

[Petrus1983]

ecsrobin said:

Where’s the ship currently? South coast?

[FurtiveFreddy]

There's one over Oxford currently I can see on adsbexchenge but that's come from Mildenhall

[MikeGTi]

Petrus1983 said:

ecsrobin said:

Where’s the ship currently? South coast?

Interesting, as apparently the IWO ARG deployed a few weeks ago and was off NW Spain a week ago

[Petrus1983]

MikeGTi said:

Interesting, as apparently the IWO ARG deployed a few weeks ago and was off NW Spain a week ago

Maybe it’s like Flightradar24 and military stuff doesn’t show up in the same way for operational reasons.

[MikeGTi]

Petrus1983 said:

Maybe it’s like Flightradar24 and military stuff doesn’t show up in the same way for operational reasons.

Yeah, I imagine so I'm not sure whether there's a requirement for Marine AIS that's equal to the requirements for ADS-B/electronic conspicuity, either.

That wasn't supposed to be a snide comment at you btw!

[couzens]

Cool bits of kit!

[ecsrobin]

MikeGTi said:

Petrus1983 said:

Maybe it’s like Flightradar24 and military stuff doesn’t show up in the same way for operational reasons.

Yeah, I imagine so I'm not sure whether there's a requirement for Marine AIS that's equal to the requirements for ADS-B/electronic conspicuity, either.

That wasn't supposed to be a snide comment at you btw!

They don’t have to all the time I imagine if operational or training (so pretty much never). We had a call at work once because an aircraft emergency beacon was going off but no one could see a source but the beacon kept moving (this was offshore near Scotland) after numerous calls and digging around it transpired a US carrier group was passing and not on AIS and they didn’t realise the aircraft beacon was going off.

[Trevatanus]

couzens said:

Cool bits of kit!

I understand they have departed and due back at 1700?

[couzens]

They are back in this afternoon yes. Not sure on the time though. I've finished for the day, sorry!

[Trevatanus]

A couple of shots from the departure yesterday

Vortex flight of 2 V22 Departing FAB by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr

Vortex flight of 2 V22 Departing FAB by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr

[aeropilot]

I suspect this maybe USMC recce/planning flights in preparation for Biden being at the G7 summit in Cornwall in June.

[couzens]

Anyone manage to see the Swedish Air Force C130 today? Just started shift as it was taxiing through the apron. Lovely hum to it as it rolled past.

[Arnie Cunningham]

Starting to wonder if I actually live under the flightpath in Farnborough, having not seen or heard any of this interesting stuff on it's way in or out.
When the ospreys came in for one of the previous airshows, they approached low & slow enough for some of the trees in the garden to sway.

[FurtiveFreddy]

I'm not far from there and I haven't seen or heard them.

Thought one was coming over me earlier but it turned out to be three Chinooks flying along in formation.

[couzens]

Red Arrows due in today just after 10am. In and out over the weekend at various times.