This sky watch thing is oversold. Any military flight operations that are sensitive are just not going to show up on the tracking sites. To think otherwise is the same as thinking that our military doesn’t know what they are doing. The sites that put up planefag posts are clickbait. I’m not saying don’t go there. Some of the stuff they say is interesting. Just be aware of what you are really looking at.
It should go without saying that military aircraft have the ability to “go dark” at any time that will render them invisible on all flight tracker apps. The ones that are “lit up” on transponders are on routine missions.
Appreciate the reminder about air traffic ability to go ghost. That’s true.
It’s the accompanying miscellaneous info & speculation that can became a factor, as well.
I expect most sites pulled back from any public broadcast of Nellis AF Base build up for a staging area and publishing accounts of big-truck supply fleets going in.
That was stopped pretty quick at monkeywerx, for sure. He became general info thereafter. I mean ZZZzzz grade info.
Yeah I had a discussion with family about this plane watch thing this morning. Commercial airliners (767s) can be chartered for the purpose of military troop movements, but I’m not sure they would be ID’d as military on a flight tracker site. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
I am aware of what I am looking at, and Tankers in the air in mass quantity mean massive air cover without transponders on. The positions of those tankers speaks loud and clear.
We don’t need fighter cover for a virtual inauguration by the way.This is far bigger than a stolen election...
If you'd actually been paying attention, you'd have known Monkeywerx covered specific examples of just what you're talking about: including planes misbroadcasting their type of aircraft, planes changing call-sign mid flight, military planes en masse turning off their air traffic control transponders, and so on.