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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CC-177 Globemaster III (4/5, 80% โœ…)

โ€ฃ 177703 flew the 3rd shipment of armoured vehicles to #Haiti ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡น
โ€ฃ 177703 flew supplies from #14WingGreenwood to Sicily ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น for the pair of CP-140 Auroras deployed to Ex #DynamicManta.

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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CC-150 Polaris (4/5, 80% โœ…)

โ€ฃ 15001 is in #Hawaii for ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ as call sign #CFC3120, via San Diego from Trenton.
โ€ฃ 15004 is in New Orleans for ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ as call sign #CFC3133 from Trenton.
โ€ฃ 15002 is still at Mirabel.

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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CC-144C/D Challenger (3/4, 75% โœ…)

โ€ฃ The aircraft of 412 Transport Squadron are normally extremely busy, so a 3+ week break sticks out. 144618 must be working through some stuff.

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Gripe:
The CAF display poor situational awareness re public visibility of ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF aircraft.

Examples:
- #14WingGreenwood deployments to Keflavik
- #19WingComox #OpCARIBBE Jan/Feb 2023
- #CANSOFCOM ISR over #Ottawa Jan 27/28 2022
- Withdrawal x2 CC-130J from #OpIMPACT Aug 2022
What about #14WingGreenwood deployments to Keflavik?

It's only a matter of time before the CP-140 Aurora deployments to Keflavik, that coincide with Russian Navy movements through the GIUK gap, get traction in the press.

They pretend it's not happening. We see them. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
What about the #19WingComox #OpCARIBBE Jan/Feb 2023 operation?

They pretended the press couldn't see it happening and wouldn't talk about it like it was some secret operation. Au contraire, it was so visible I live-tweeted it.

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"The operation involved (...) supporting and operating four F-35s, three CF-18s, four KC-135s, one CC-150, one E-3, and one CH-149."

Okay, let's add them up. ๐Ÿงต
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ #USAF E-3 Sentry 83-0009 #AE11F2 #CACHE50

Flights identified using #ADSBexchange
2023-01-18
2023-01-19

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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CC-149 Cormorant 149902 #C2B107 deployed from #14WingGreenwood on 2023-01-11, headed to to Iqaluit, in preparation for #NORAD Operation #NobleDefender.

The operation was from the 15th to the 31st, true, but preparations started before that.
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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ In June the #RCAF participated in a Search and Rescue exercise based out of Lajes, in The Azores, and for some reason didn't think the Canadian public wanted to know, so they didn't tell anyone anything.

It might have been part of #ASAREX #ASAREX22 #ASAREX2022, I can't tell.
Here is video, part of the exercise filmed by one of the locals. (h/t @Dapotayto1 for the link!)

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I'm unclear when the exercise started or ended, but their call sign suggests they began to prepare in early June

#CFC2127
2022-06-06 Between Greenwood/Summerside
2022-06-15 Over the Bay of Fundy
2022-06-18 To Lajes
2022-06-19 To Lajes
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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ When #RCAF #14WingGreenwood personnel misconfigure their plane's transponder with a placeholder to fill in a blank (12345677), it suggests they can't be bothered to look up the right value. If so, what else are they skipping, and how does that affect the aircraft's safety? ImageImageImage
On 2022-04-27 the same #RCAF CC-130H aircraft, now correctly configured, flew again, showing personnel at #14WingGreenwood can configure a CC-130H Mode-S transponder properly, eventually.
How many days will it be before the same mistake is made again?

#C2AFB3 โ‰  #29CBBF
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Last time it was about three weeks before someone was struck with amnesia.

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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ The #RCAF #14WingGreenwood newsletter "The Aurora" is really well done; newsletters feel pre-digital to me, but I'm not anti-newsletter. I can't help but read these articles about #413SQN #SAR and know they'd make fantastic Twitter content.

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If #14WingGreenwood was interested in publicising the tempo of their SAR operations w/ @hfxjrcc they could investigate transmitting ADS-B from their CH-149, CC-130H, and other aircraft. Mode-S alone doesn't transmit lat/lon, and reduces public visibility of their operations.
Yes, I'd love them to start using ADS-B with the CP-140M Block 4 fleet too, but I don't think they're going to improve the visibility of our sub-hunters, which are extremely busy on ops and exercises, and hardly ever mentioned in the news.
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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด Someone with better intel on Canadian-Colombian military relations might recognize what these flights are indicative of; I don't. Before I lose track of which Royal Canadian Air Force CC-130J transports flew to #Colombia in September for an exercise(?), lets document them.
First, remember that the RCAF CC-130H fleet stay at home like red headed step children; they do SAR and other domestic taskings. We just need to watch where the CC-130J fleet has been internationally.

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CC-130J Fleet:
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Secondly, remember that a callsign stays the same for an entire mission; same callsign, same mission. Dropping off/picking up the same people, returning from dropping things off, or brining things back; it would all be one callsign.

Sequential call-signs are usually related too.
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