I just can't take him any longer. Was watching the sit rep in bed this morning and started yelling at the TV, "YOU FUCKING MORON!!!!"
Wife asked why I was yelling. I said, "BECAUSE HE'S A FUCKING MORON!!"
This guy is wrong about almost everything. I live in Las Vegas. He said there is a TFR for Vegas because of an air show. No. There is no air show. Not even a canceled one. Yes, the MyRadar app hints to that, but it's not the case. Nellis AFB calls for TFRs all the time under the guise of an air show since the USAF Thunderbirds are based there. So, no rich analysis from Monkey because he's just videoing himself reading data from a publicly available app.
Then he pointed out planes flying near the "Pax River" area. They were actually flying near Joint Base Charleston. Those two bases are nowhere near each other.
And all the fucking banter of P-3s and P-8s flying around Florida, like they are looking for enemy subs trying to kill Trump. No, they are training. That's what pilots do. They train almost every day. Even the other guys aboard are training as well. Not every military sortie over CONUS is an act of war.
And no, when a president travels aboard a USAF jet, it is not REQUIRED to carry the call sign of Air Force One. The captain can have the call sign whatever he wants. Usually Air Force One, but doesn't have to be. And a lot of the time the presidential jet doesn't have a transponder turned on at all.
I saw a C-32A traveling from JB Andrews to California and it had the call sign AF2. It was Kamala going home. I don't think Monkey will acknowledge that.
The worst was when he claimed the massive ingress of "heavies" into Nellis AFB back in December was an indicator of something big was going down. I was aboard Nellis that weekend. I saw all those "heavies" on the ramp. Any guess on where their crews were? At the Bellagio throwing dice. It was an exercise. One that is huge, but not uncommon.
There was a similar exercise at Peterson AFB a year earlier, almost to the day.
https://defence-blog.com/news/u-s-air-force-conducts-massive-airlift-exercise.html
So he claims to have 35 years of experience in this arena. I seriously doubt that.
He is lying, or just plain ignorant?
ty. I tried to planefag for about 5min before I realized there's no reason I would know why any of these planes would be anywhere and that speculating what "the plan" has in store based on that information was insane of me. hopefully this post gets some pedes off this red herring.
Half the time the pilots don't understand what they are doing either. :)
kek! XD
I stopped watching him. i did learn some things which were helpful in the beginning of my planefagging but he's a dooming idiot most of the time.
He likes to throw out inside nomenclature and then when explaining what that means uses a little more known inside nomenclature ... pretty much the first term and his explanation are terms only military would know and that impresses civilians who won't ask for clarification the second time because they'll feel like they should know the second term. "Oh he knows his stuff, he said "twin turbo prop" or whatever the hell he says.
I was Army (but used to jump), I don't know squat about the Air Force besides falling out of C130s and C141s or what's normal.
Very cool to see the U2 up but I doubt they are using that to track Pelosi because if they were, they wouldn't have the damn transponder on. Same with the sub hunters. They don't want China, Russia or Iran to know where they are hunting them.
"ingress of heavies (C17s)" = "moose walk" , lol. They practice flights for "close drops" all the time.
I think you're spot-on dude.
Wait. What? Do you mean you can just stop watching him? I did it, but didn't know you first had to come on GAW and announce it to everyone.
Why not?
I hear ya. I've subscribed to his Patreon Channel for 2-3 months and will likely make this the last month. He projects too much gloom and doom in my opinion. I know absolutely nothing about flight path radar and respect his 35+ years experience, but I do think he has been inaccurate in some of his assessments, based on where I live and what I have seen happening in the skies over Arizona.
Maybe he is just too busy with his other projects and seminary school to delve much deeper.
He has definitely gone doomer latwly. I had to stop watching last month...but still like planefagging just for fun
The dude couldn't be much older than 50 ... would mean he started planefagging at 15-ish? :D
He's a liar...
Um, there is an air show, and there is a TFR.
https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr2/list.html
Great. Where is this air show? I'd like to go!
Check the link.
The TFR covers Nellis AFB from 17 March to 19 March from the deck to 18,000 ft. Yes, I know there is a TFR. Here me now: there is no air show at Nellis. NASCAR was here last week which is near the base. TFRs for those events can happen. If someone can tell me where an air show is happening Wed-Thurs-Fri of next week, I would love to know more.
According to the FAA, there is a TFR because of an air show.
Take it up with them.
I don't have to, I already know. Here's a lesson for you and Monkey. Just because the FAA says something, that doesn't make it true. There is no air show anywhere near Las Vegas Wed-Fri of next week.
You do realize the link I posted undermines the premise of your post?
The premise is that Monkey is a jack off who reads public app info in front of a camera and tries to act like he's giving rich analysis and insight. He just read that a TFR was set for Vegas for an air show. Your link has inaccurate data since there is no air show scheduled. If the link says their is a TFR set for an area because they are battling Godzilla, then I guess you would believe it because government is always true. If he has the background he claims, he would more than likely know that air shows are not scheduled in the winter on a Wednesday. The next air show in this area is scheduled for November. And I don't think you understand the premise of the post.
Wasn’t Red Flag what those heavies about? Or setting up gear prior-to? Anyway, I considered his show more carnage after that & quit watching then. The day someone accurately planefags where the chemtrail a/c are based I’ll start tuning-in again. -USAF Vet
The last Red Flag of 2020 ended 31 July.
There is a reason that he has his YouTube comments turned off.
I would have commented when he was trying to act like he knew enough about the F-16 to teach others. The video he showed was mostly F-15s in a clip he stole from the IMAX film Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag
He's 100% a liar. I realized this when he made a few very stupid and incorrect comments, and also I was able to planefag at a higher rate than him after only a week.
He's a loser, a liar, and just trying to jump on the bandwagon.
I also seriously doubt he ever served. Which is a hard thing to say about somebody..
My (former AF fighter pilot husband) shouts at the TV every time Monkey calls a T38 a Tweetie Bird.
Nice. My daddy is a former USAF fighter pilot.
He's a grifter just looking for views. He might know exactly what he's looking at but just says whatever he thinks sounds good.