ETAD 23-03-2015

[Oscar01]

Morning,

Went to Spang yesterday and this is what we saw:
A-10s: 956, 656, 965, 991, 651, 945, 988, 648 (flew as Steel, Boar, Evil and Hawg)
C-17: 06-6154 (dep as RCH458), 08-8202 (dep as RCH195), 10-0216 (arr as RCH415), 04-4130 (arr before we arrived -> ramp)
F-16s: 352, 080, 340, 361 (Tran01-04), 829, 416 (Dark01,02), 828, 818 (Drag?01,02)
F-18s: 188788, 188795, 188734 (Elk01-03)

Around 16.15 another 6 locals went out, and early evening another 6 A-10s went out (not seen by us).

Cheers,
Oz

[Adraf]

Around 16.15 another 6 locals went out, and early evening another 6 A-10s went out (not seen by us).

These F-16 arrived 1745LT and the 6 A-10 arrived 2125LT

[Oscar01]

Do you have serials for the 6 that went out at 16.15 and came back 17.45?

[Adraf]

No, I didn't see them

[Flyingdutchman]

One of the departing F-16C's was the 080. I was there too (Dutchie )

Evert

[FredL]

Hi gyus !

I plan to go to Spangdahlem one of these days to try to see the A-10.
I have the feeling, by reading your reports that they fly mostly during the afternoon and even on the evening.
As I live quite far from "SP" and want to have as much chances as possible on my side, can you confirm this or advice me the best moment to go ?

Have a good evening

F

[Adraf]

I plan to go to Spangdahlem one of these days to try to see the A-10.
I have the feeling, by reading your reports that they fly mostly during the afternoon and even on the evening.
As I live quite far from "SP" and want to have as much chances as possible on my side, can you confirm this or advice me the best moment to go?

Normally the first "wave" A-10 arrive between 1500LT and 1630LT and the second and last arrive normally at 2120LT, so they depart in the morning and in the afternoon and arrive in the afternoon and in the evening...

[Marco DeG]

I plan to go to Spangdahlem one of these days to try to see the A-10.
I have the feeling, by reading your reports that they fly mostly during the afternoon and even on the evening.
As I live quite far from "SP" and want to have as much chances as possible on my side, can you confirm this or advice me the best moment to go?

Normally the first "wave" A-10 arrive between 1500LT and 1630LT and the second and last arrive normally at 2120LT, so they depart in the morning and in the afternoon and arrive in the afternoon and in the evening...

Well this week first departures where in the morning with three waves total one of them during night period.

Ciao,
Marco

[Oscar01]

Hard to say Fred, as they change a lot. Last Monday the plan was to fly 3 missions (morning, afternoon, evening), but cancelled morning.

Keep in mind that the A-10 missions are very long most of the times (around 2 hours!). F-16s go quite a lot to the tankers these days. CAF hornets if they fly, only fly for 45-60min.

If it's a long drive for you, I would just go early already and be there in time.

Good luck,
Oscar

[Nilson]

http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=113709

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[Oscar01]

Yes, but the ones from Poland will arrive back soon at Spang...

[Nilson]

Yes, but for the moment.......

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[FredL]

Hard to say Fred, as they change a lot. Last Monday the plan was to fly 3 missions (morning, afternoon, evening), but cancelled morning.

Keep in mind that the A-10 missions are very long most of the times (around 2 hours!). F-16s go quite a lot to the tankers these days. CAF hornets if they fly, only fly for 45-60min.

If it's a long drive for you, I would just go early already and be there in time.

Good luck,
Oscar

Thanks very much for those informations guys !
It looks more clear now and indeed, I'll go very early.

[Flanker]

hi Fred,

yesterday first fighter 'activity' was around 12:30 LT with a bunch of F-16s going out.
they were back 1.5 hours later.

2 A-10s left around 14:00 LT

in the meantime a CAF F-18 made a small mission 45 min.

in the morning 2 C-17s landed
A C-5 and one of the C-17 departed

good luck
Coert

[FredL]

Thank you very much Coert !
It looks very precise to me now.
I'll go for sure one of these days. I even plan to stay overnight and spend two days at SP testing my new camera once weather forecast and my free time will both allow.
A-10 + CF-188 + the usual transports and F-16 altogether is an opportunity not to miss.

Have a good weekend.