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Buccaneer S.2B · Post by **Buccaneer S.2B** » 25 Mar 2019, 10:28

Aha, Saturday! Guess will atract some spotters.

Bennie · Post by **Bennie** » 25 Mar 2019, 10:29

Buccaneer S.2B wrote:Aha, Saturday! Guess will atract some spotters.

My calender says March 29th 2019 is a Friday!

Zonan · Post by **Zonan** » 25 Mar 2019, 10:30

2x 5 makes 10? I thought there were 8 expected, that's a nice surprise

Marcovh · Post by **Marcovh** » 25 Mar 2019, 10:37

Zonan wrote:2x 5 makes 10? I thought there were 8 expected, that's a nice surprise

who was expecting 8? They should supply 8 per mission, which means more planes are needed in order to support.
This has been communicated only 100s of times already at the different news sites.

Rabbit · Post by **Rabbit** » 25 Mar 2019, 10:51

Buccaneer S.2B wrote:Aha, Saturday! Guess will atract some spotters.

Probably you should buy a new agenda....

Zonan · Post by **Zonan** » 25 Mar 2019, 11:56

Marcovh wrote:
Zonan wrote:2x 5 makes 10? I thought there were 8 expected, that's a nice surprise
who was expecting 8? They should supply 8 per mission, which means more planes are needed in order to support.
This has been communicated only 100s of times already at the different news sites.

As clearly stated on the dedicated defensie.nl page: United States brings 8x F-16.
https://www.defensie.nl/onderwerpen/fri ... liegtuigen

But no problem to me, the more, the better

Fishbed_9307 · Post by **Fishbed_9307** » 25 Mar 2019, 12:39

Zonan wrote:
Marcovh wrote:
Zonan wrote:2x 5 makes 10? I thought there were 8 expected, that's a nice surprise
who was expecting 8? They should supply 8 per mission, which means more planes are needed in order to support.
This has been communicated only 100s of times already at the different news sites.
As clearly stated on the dedicated defensie.nl page: United States brings 8x F-16.
https://www.defensie.nl/onderwerpen/fri ... liegtuigen

But no problem to me, the more, the better

I shouldn't take this too literally. It is just how the communication-employee at the MinDef HQ interpreted and formulated the article. He/she probably can't tell from which side of the aircraft the hot air emerges and most likely really doesn't care too much about spare aircraft etc.

Hornet69 · Post by **Hornet69** » 25 Mar 2019, 12:54

Joostmil wrote:The USAF F16’s participating in FF2019 are expected to arrive today in two groups of five. Arrival around 14:00lt for the first and 15:00lt for the second group. Subject to a big change !

Risky business and indeed subject to a big change. Last year several times the cross of the F-15's to Europe was delayed due to bad weather conditions. So maybe some or all F-16's arrive during the weekend. Keep an eye to NOTAMs for Leeuwarden.

Buccaneer S.2B · Post by **Buccaneer S.2B** » 25 Mar 2019, 20:37

Rabbit wrote:
Buccaneer S.2B wrote:Aha, Saturday! Guess will atract some spotters.

Probably you should buy a new agenda....

Oops! I guess Alzheimer is approaching, can't remember his first name as well anymore

AK01 · Post by **AK01** » 26 Mar 2019, 08:59

Not 100% sure if connected, but KC135R 62-3502, callsign Roma 22 landed at Duluth around 05.00z this morning. So pretty sure this will be one of the 4? tankers doing the AAR en route LWD.
And just to be sure, this won't land in Leeuwarden...
Pieter,

mainsail2011 · Post by **mainsail2011** » 26 Mar 2019, 09:03

maybe 2 spare and return before crossing the ocean?

Marcovh · Post by **Marcovh** » 26 Mar 2019, 09:51

mainsail2011 wrote:maybe 2 spare and return before crossing the ocean?

no!! How will you supply 8 in the excercise with only 8 in place? You do need spares. Like every other participant they will need to bring spares. How difficult is this to understand? This is standard practise already for years for every excercise.

mart · Post by **mart** » 26 Mar 2019, 10:28

Marcovh wrote:
mainsail2011 wrote:maybe 2 spare and return before crossing the ocean?
no!! How will you supply 8 in the excercise with only 8 in place? You do need spares. Like every other participant they will need to bring spares. How difficult is this to understand? This is standard practise already for years for every excercise.

I believe the 2 spares of Marcovh refers to the 4 tankers being used. Not the 10 F16's.

Marcovh · Post by **Marcovh** » 26 Mar 2019, 15:46

mart wrote:
Marcovh wrote:
mainsail2011 wrote:maybe 2 spare and return before crossing the ocean?
no!! How will you supply 8 in the excercise with only 8 in place? You do need spares. Like every other participant they will need to bring spares. How difficult is this to understand? This is standard practise already for years for every excercise.
I believe the 2 spares of Marcovh refers to the 4 tankers being used. Not the 10 F16's.

Last attempt and then I will give up. We can expect 10x F-16. 8x for flying within FF and 2 spares for FF. Are you really not reading any other source than Scramble? Please check your pix of all previous years and you will see that not all of the aircraft flown in the morning are flying in the afternoon, but the number of aircraft is the same. So in the afternoon are flying the morning mission spares.

Eagledriver 32 · Post by **Eagledriver 32** » 26 Mar 2019, 18:36

Marcovh wrote:
mainsail2011 wrote:maybe 2 spare and return before crossing the ocean?
no!! How will you supply 8 in the excercise with only 8 in place? You do need spares. Like every other participant they will need to bring spares. How difficult is this to understand? This is standard practise already for years for every excercise.

Please keep it nice and clean on this forum guy's.

Thank you, and a happy spotting,
Ewald

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