Tel-Aviv/Ben Gurion Airport (LLBG/TLV) - 2010 MIL

[Starman]

I know some of you boys and girls in Scramble-land have a penchant for C-17s, well you may be interested in the 88190 of the 437AW which has just (March 11th) arrived from Sigonella. I believe it might be quite new!

MOD edit: title adjusted

[ehusmann]

Could you please say at which field it just arrived? Not everyone knows all codes by heart (please use full name in title). Thanks, it will certainly help the readability.

Erwin

[Le Addeur noir]

Could you please say at which field it just arrived? Not everyone knows all codes by heart (please use full name in title). Thanks, it will certainly help the readability.

Erwin

In the time you spent typing out the above,you could have gone to the Scramble locations database and found out what field LLBG is for yourself.

[ehusmann]

Look, I know what LLBG is. But that is not the point. The point is that often fields are only quoted with codes and most people really do not know all codes. Giving only codes means everyone who doesn´t know it needs to go searching, while the person who posted it obviously knows the name and will not need any extra effort to post the full name.

Please, don´t misunderstand me, I thank anyone who posts any kind of information, I am just asking to make it easier for everyone.

Erwin

[Starman]

You are both right; Erwin, I was just being lazy, and Mr Slackbladder (correct translation?) even more so: viz, the beautiful lists of serials, type name, con number etc that are posted which could only have come from a database, and not from what's actually written on the side of the a/c. Hence 88190 (even though I was close enough to read the data block by the door) and not 08-8190 as you may read elsewhere. On the other hand, a certain degree of, if not secrecy, then um, what's the word, to put off the casual viewer, otherwise some joker will send a post listing the name of the VP about to arrive to arouse the girls from the OSI. Oh, some joker did. Anyway, whoever was here left on 90004, and C-17A 23293 was due in from ETAR (oops, Ramstein) to pick up the rest of the vehicles and the sniffer dogs. No doubt two more will be back overnight for the helos.

[nhoogenboom]

Hi all,

Topic title changed to the airfield name.
End of the discussion and back to the topic guys!!

Gr.Niels

[Starman]

Unusual visitor this morning to the Namal Hateufa Ben Gurion or "NATBAG" as we call it is AMI C-27J MM62223/46.88 from Pisa. Note that the inbound c/s was "62217"

[Starman]

Slightly less interesting visitor this morning is 64-(F-RA)PK / 5226 C-130H shortly to depart westbound as CTM5030