YorkNite Day 9 : Friday 4 December 2020

[David Thompson]

NOTAM for an early finish today at 17:00 and I suspect a half-time change around with the Helvetic EMB-190 back for a crew change ? Probably !

[David Thompson]

SUI596 showing as HB-AZF/4B028F EMB-190 passing Troyes for crew changes and toblerones to Leeming .

[tony54321]

It sounds like there’s a Hornet 2 ship up already
Might they be swapping some jets?
Sounds like callsign SUI404?
Comms on 255.675

[Tonka972]

The callsigns sound more like transit flights with Swiss AF 404 and 472 heard on 270.05 and alt of 34k and 135deg headings - swapping of jets? The last two ship said goodbye to the tower.

[David Thompson]

Thanks Tonka972 , I did wonder if they would swap jets too ?

[David Thompson]

EMB-190 finals for 34 after some 'auto-pilot' problems .

[verreli]

Any suggestion as to why they would swap jets as well as crews? The aircraft that have been here seem to have had good availability.

[Focal_Plane]

Any suggestion as to why they would swap jets as well as crews? The aircraft that have been here seem to have had good availability.

A video on the Leeming FB page indicates the first two weeks will involve a lot of junior pilots who are still going through their PC-21 / F-18 conversion so "perhaps" they might not need so many twin-seats for the next phase and will swap them out for single seaters. That`s just a hypothesis.

Presently SUI 404 / 402 have returned and SAF 401 is inbound. If it actually turns out to be a twin-seat / single seat swap, we`ll see.

I could just be talking rubbish. It has been known :-)

[David Thompson]

SUI401 formation inbound with an F18 swap . Sorry for late notice .
Edit.; have just read above post !

[f-4]

J-5011 was listed as arriving soon, is it there yet?

[David Thompson]

EMB departed as SUI597 .

[venom]

a seen the video to give students who have just come from the pc21 to experience on night flying on f18 s

[david14]

Can anyone provide details of today's swapover please, which Hornets left and which arrived?

MTIA

[tony54321]

Can anyone provide details of today's swapover please, which Hornets left and which arrived?

MTIA

According to the Leeming FB group, J-5005 & J-5011
Arrived today, one of which has the special tiger tail art.

[Mike]

Can anyone provide details of today's swapover please, which Hornets left and which arrived?

MTIA

According to the Leeming FB group, J-5005 & J-5011
Arrived today, one of which has the special tiger tail art.

More updates from the Leeming FB group :-

Just for completion, the two FA18s which went home to Payerne AFB on friday 4.12.2020 were J-5232 and J-5233. Swap's were 5005 and 5011 (flew in also from Payerne).

and :-

So the complete batch right now would be J-5002 5005 5011 5014 5016 5017 5020 5021 5025 5234

[Mikepaparomeo]

That’s very helpful Mike. Thanks for posting
Regards

[Mike]

No problem