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Quote from: kerick on October 01, 2023, 01:24:40 PMLooked like a Piper Cub circling around the house the other day. Nothing to look at here but corn fields.

Could have been lost and looking for reference points on a road map, since their version of IFR is "I Follow Roads" (as told to me by an ex-girlfriend's father, who owned the J-5 Cub Cruiser he soloed in) 

And VFR is 'Visually Follow Roads'...

Learned that from the book 'Chickenhawk', IIRC.

The weather was clear as a bell so no problems there. I doubt they were lost, just looking at something. It's what I would do, if I had one.

Is there a Naturalist Colony nearby?  

Heard an unusual noise and popped my head outside: 4 Hueys, probably Twin Hueys. Unusual for my area (near Port Columbus/John Glenn Int'l, Ohio.)  And unusual pattern: flew west, made a sharp U-turn, headed back east, in line. 

I'm working in Windsor again, and was just reading this thread and decided to look at ADSB. Turns out a Chinook was coming down River at 1000 ft., so I had to run downstairs and see ! Or should I say see and hear. Love that machine.

Champ, I think, towing banner over Italian Festival in Columbus, Ohio, today. 

Just now a RAAF P-8, low (500ft or less), fast (for it's type, and faster than most things that fly over here) and loud. Must have done a missed approach at the local airport.

I've been off work the last few days and out for a few walks.  There's been a fair bit of activity.
Usual GA stuff, including a Diamond DA42 and a Piper PA-46 (don't think I've seen one of these before).

Sikorsky S-92 HM Coastguard

Several Typhoons.  Checking Flightradar, there seems to have been an exercise over the North Sea, including several types, especially a Skyhawk. Didn't see it unfortunately.

Several Hawks, including two Red Arrows, all flying into Humberside airport.  Humberside struggled to compete as an airport when Doncaster opened and diversified into maintenance, a good thing given that Doncaster has now closed.

Here's a Typhoon, or is it a fly on the lens?!? Crappy pic from my phone:
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Looks like a A-4U Corsair from that angle lol.

Quote from: Mossie on October 18, 2023, 03:11:14 AMI've been off work the last few days and out for a few walks.  There's been a fair bit of activity.
Usual GA stuff, including a Diamond DA42 and a Piper PA-46 (don't think I've seen one of these before).

Sikorsky S-92 HM Coastguard

Several Typhoons.  Checking Flightradar, there seems to have been an exercise over the North Sea, including several types, especially a Skyhawk. Didn't see it unfortunately.

Several Hawks, including two Red Arrows, all flying into Humberside airport.  Humberside struggled to compete as an airport when Doncaster opened and diversified into maintenance, a good thing given that Doncaster has now closed.

Here's a Typhoon, or is it a fly on the lens?!? Crappy pic from my phone:
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Is the skyhawk from germany ? There are 4 of them in Rostock/ Lage flying for the german Luftwaffe .

The private for hire op for air companies?

Quote from: kerick on October 18, 2023, 07:13:42 PMThe private for hire op for air companies?

Right, TOP ACES from Canada ,  stationed at the Richthofen squadron .

I'm pretty sure it was Top Aces.  Looking up their Skyhawks, it's wearing the same scheme that showed up in the pic on Flightradar.

The PA-46 is a nice looking bird, for something GA. (not really a GA Snob, I just play one on the Interweb... )

Not today, but Tuesday - one of McGoo's active duty KC-46s heading into to ACY for touch and goes.