Posted on 08/31/2021 9:19:48 PM PDT by MercyFlush
Myself and Mrs. Flush live in South Sacramento near the Executive Airport. Civilian aviation and the occaisional vintage warbird are common sights and sounds for us. The air traffic lines up from the southeast for the main runway and we're quite used to it.
At about 8:20 this evening we heard the distinctive sound of a V-22 Osprey traveling at a moderate speed at low altitude in a southerly direction. No kidding, it rattled the house!
I've checked everywhere online and cannot find anything to show an aircraft flying across this airspace. The closest active air bases are Travis and Beale. I am intimately familiar with the Osprey and there is no mistaking it for something else.
Did anyone else hear it? Or see it? Thanks!
I heard that there were three A-10s at the North Bend, OR airport this week. I wonder if they’re going to an air show in the region.
It was a BlackHawk
OK
You saw an airplane.
Why do you care if anyone else did?
I’m outside Atlanta, it is raining here.
I had to bring the garbage cans in from the street today.
(sheesh)
N603CK
I changed a dead battery in my pickup. Think I’ll post a thread about it.
That would be more interesting...
What kind of truck?
How did you know the battery needed to be replaced?
Where did you get it?
How long did it take?
Was any beer involved?
What are you gonna do with the old one?
Did you lose all of your radio settings?
Years ago I looked out my window, and I saw an aircraft light low in the sky and heard an increasing sound. I noticed the light wasn’t moving, I thought that was strange until it occured to me that would mean it was flying right at my house.
Wait, it was coming right at me! It was going to crash into my house!
I ran out the door onto my yard, and tried to decide which direction I should run to get the most distance between me and a possible crash. Just then this thing flew right over me, a huge object blocking out most of the sky. Thump thump thump.
A spotlight shown out if the object, right on me, standing in my front yard in my underwear. All I could do was meekly wave.
I called the local military air base the next day and asked them what the heck they were flying at 60 feet over a residential area.
They told me they couldn’t discuss that.
Nope, not a Blackhawk. The rotor sound is completely different and no, it was not Chinook flying sideways at ~120 knots.
That could be. Just odd to have a low pass like this in congested airspace.
N603CK was on the apron at 3:23pm. That’s not my bird. But it is a very cool find!
Taliban taking flying lessons?
Those mutts can’t fly.
N803CK landed at Exec at 8:23pm
BTW…. I am retired ATC
Your 3:23 is UTC.
I don’t make mistakes.
You guys kill me. It’s like Facebook or something around here. Then again it breaks up the non-stop COVID thingie. 😊
So am I. Maybe it was a C-5 out of Travis, that self identifies as an Osprey. 😀😂🤗👍
I retired from NCT.
Area B
I retired from Travis. 😀 I visited Houston Center once. An unbelievable number of radar scopes. I got my baptism of fire in Vietnam. I am not sure how, but I managed to hold my own, at one of the world’s busiest airports at the time.
At Laughlin, I heard we had the largest block of terminally controlled airspace in the free world. From about 50 miles to the southeast, counter clockwise, to 90 miles to the northwest, up to FL 230.
Airliners used to transition the air space, at or above FL 240. The T-38 pilots, being the smart asses they were, used to see them, and follow along side them, at or below FL 230, and do barrel rolls at 720° per second. I wouldn’t know, since I was on the ground, but that is what I was told. The good old days. 👍😀
Let’s have a beer sometime.
I am in EDH near The El Dorado Saloon.
Lots of ATC in my area
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