Florennes (EBFS) - 2008

[perrie]

After the TLp 2 Belgian F-16's departed: FA-89/FS and FA-67.
Also in the hangar (on the left) was another Spanish Hornet and right next to it Rafale M 20.

greetings, Per

It was a nice day with amazingly nice weather.

[Piet Luijken]

Nice log Patrick.

Where did you see the other portuguese F-16s?

thanks!

[witje]

15121 F-16AM Esq 301
15127 F-16AM Esq 301

Which one was standing on the platform right in front of the German Tornado?

[Piet Luijken]

I noted the one with the black and white tailband, so that must be the 15121.

[witje]

Thanks Piet for the quick reaction!!

[Patrick Moonen]

Nice log Patrick.

Where did you see the other portuguese F-16s?

thanks!

15121 was standing on the TLP platform and 15127 was on the Belgian F-16 line next to the 2 extra Greek F-16's. There should be 2 Portuguese but only 1 was visible. It had markings on the tail sow it has to be 15127.

Patrick.

[Iwan Bogels]

Foto: Met dank aan Math C en het FlyFan forum. Het hele verhaal en nog meer foto's staan op http://flyfan.hostonet.org/viewtopic.ph ... sc&start=0.

[Piet Luijken]

Some callsigns with the previous logs:

QRA was done by LH01(FA115) and LH02(FA101)
P180 came in as I2207 and departed to LIRE with same callsign

Igloo01 87-0359/AV
Igloo02 88-0413/AV
Igloo03 C.15-65/12-23
Igloo04 C.15-54/12-12
Igloo07 G-FRAW
Igloo10 FA86
Igloo11 FA103
Igloo14 25
Igloo15 21
Igloo36 MM7244
Igloo40 501
Igloo41 524

[Whitecat]

Normally tomorrow is a non-flying day. But since they have cancelled 2 missions in the first week, is there any chance that they will fly tomorrow?

I hope someone can answer this as I would like to go tomorrow.

Cheers

[Wrecks]

Mission today 09dec was cancelled due to snowing, mission will be rescheduled for tomorrow.

Noted on the ramp in the morning were:
Rafale M 20 (dep, did not see it return)
Rafale M 21 (towed from hangar)
Rafale M 25
F-16A MM7243
F-16A MM7244
F-16A (MM7248)
F-16A (MM7253)
AV-8B (MM7214)/1-08 (towed into the hangar)
AV-8B (MM7222)/1-16
F-16C 501
F-16C 502
F-16C 515
F-16C 524
Tornado ECR 4633
Tornado ECR 4652
F-4F 3726
F-4F 3777
F-4F 3802
F-4F 3854 (towed from hangar)
F-16A 15102
F-16A 15106
F-16A 15121
F-16A 15127
Mirage F1M C.14-56/14-31
Mirage F1M C.14-68/(14-40)
EF-18 C.15-54/12-12
EF-18 C.15-65/12-23
F-16C 87-0359/AV
F-16C 88-0413/AV

The FRA Da20 was also seen but not logged. The hangar had at least one more a/c.

The new C-130H CH-14 was outside at Brussel (near the VIP area, not at the Melsbroek side).

Regards,

Otger

[Arjan]

Hi,

Nice log, very much a pity for you that they didn't fly. Experienced it myself a lot of times actually.

Did the two extra Phantoms arrive today?

best regards,

Arjan

[E. Schoonderwoerd]

Todays mission cancelled and re-scheduled till tomorrow, is what I read.

Tomorrow was planned as an academic day. Will this influence the flying schedule in the way that thursday will be an academic day? Or did they use this tuesday as an academic day instead?

Needless to say I want to go to Florennes on Thursday and would like to have some verification.

Anyone who can help, with something more than an educated guess?

Thnx.

[Trout89]

Some more callsigns from 08/12 (+ corrections)

Igloo05 MM7214/1-08
Igloo06 MM7222/1-16
Igloo12 C.14-68/14-40
Igloo13 C.14-56/14-31
Igloo16 15102
Igloo17 15106
Igloo23 46+52
Igloo30 MM7253
Igloo31 MM7248
Igloo32 37+26
Igloo33 37+77
Igloo34 502
Igloo35 515

Thanks for the other callsigns Piet, just the one's I missed.
Regards, Arjen.

[Hanske]

From the TLP site some good news I think:

Tlp will host a Spotters Day on 20 May 2009. Information will only be distributed on the web site.

On 19 May 2009 a Press day will be organized at TLP. Information only through the PR department of ComOpsAir

[Piet Luijken]

Mission wednesday 10 dec cancelled according florennes-as.be.

Weather is not so good, it started with 150 m visibility this morning, at the moment ( 1325UTC ) it still is 4000 m with very low clouds.

In MIL codes, it was RED, now it is YELLOW and it will become AMBER

Still IFR=instrument approaches traffic only as only BLUE or WHITE will give VFR=visual departure and landings.