Just Witnessed Possible CAP Flight Intercept

My own personal self | 1/4/02 | Psalm37

[kickme]

Did you fly the 111?

[NELSON111]

Nope...I'm a weather guy. I have had a couple of rides in the F-16D though...and one in an F-4. Its a real kick in the pants...

[Unicorn]

Good one

[Aggie Mama]

I didn't know that Ellington was so active. I remember going there when I was a kid. I just think of it as the place where the space shuttle would come into every once in a while.

[angkor]

the guys flying CAP now over NYC and sometimes DC

I'm inside the Beltway - Northern VA - and the CAP activity has been interesting to say the least.

Up until December the coverage over DC was intense, I'd say anywhere from 6 to 10 jets being simultaneously visible at night. More recently it seems to have been reduced.

Also, the helicopter traffic between DC and Quantico varies according to (I suppose) the current threat level. For a good while it was almost nonstop, all day long. Then a lull, then it picked up again before Christmas, and now back to fairly low levels (as it had been prior to 9/11).

[ninenot]

that what you saw was a flock of geese heading south.

Nothing to see here, move along.

[NELSON111]

Pretty busy place. We have a sqdn of F-16's there, along with the 3-149th Aviation Battalion (Army) with their Apaches, the Coast Guard flies out of there as well. Plus...it is a UPS departure point and NASA is there as well.

Gig 'em,

Nelson, '92