Holy Moly, Check out the plane activity over EU. Is it normally this active?
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Amateur planefag here. Been watching pretty close the past few weeks, and this is more activity than I've seen in Europe during that time. 18 helicopters over the UK right now, and a US 'tanker' patrolling the North Sea along with one from UK.
There were 3US tankers over Europe with QID call signs 2 in the North Sea and one over Germany circling for hours......The thing is no other planes were showing being refuelled. A US tanker has also flown across the Atlantic today and another one has gone the opposite way.
Most of the helicopters fly out to the oil rigs.
Just because you can't see other planes refueling doesn't mean they arent there. Planes involved in ops will most likely have their transponders turned off for mission integrity.