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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 !

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

verreli wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:01 am

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 :-)

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

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

EMB departed as SUI597 .

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

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

MTIA

david14 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:56 pm

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.

tony54321 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 04, 2020 10:06 pm

david14 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 04, 2020 9:56 pm

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

That’s very helpful Mike. Thanks for posting
Regards

No problem