...as if we didn't expect it. Around 3am central time Special Forces connected with AFSOC deployed. No idea where as of yet, but was sudden, from a central CONUS base. Airmen had less than an hour notice to be on flight. I hope to God we're not going to push our luck "over there". This info came to me DIRECT from one deploying..
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Well in this case, if no planes left from central CONUS on the tracker apps this morning around 3am and u/Sabre2th has first hand knowledge that there was a plane leaving from there at that time, we know the transponder must have been off.
Pretty much have to know that a plane was in the air and see that its not pinging the tracking apps to know.
I get "launch" info fairly regular. There are (many) squadrons that RARELY squawk. I would bet that less than 20% of mil aircraft can be tracked on other than military systems.
I live next to an intl airport. Can confirm. I see military planes and helos fly over my house all the time, nothing on ADSBE.
I will add that I listen to the AM tower frequencies too. I can hear them talking to the tower. No squawk.
I have no idea but that doesn't seem right. I do work on Topsail island and Goldsboro NC. There are constantly jets at Goldsboro and many Osprey and other helicopter flight over the island. I've always assumed it's flight training/qualification flight hours and I doubt they would keep transponders off for such flights. However again I know pretty much nothing about the topic other than the amount is fuel I've seen pissed away at job sites.