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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ #RCAF CC-177 Globemaster III (4/5, 80% βœ…)

β€£ 177701 flew from Trenton to Ottawa to Whitehorse on 2023-02-12 presumably related to the 🎈
β€£ 177704 seems to be out of comission at #CFBTrenton, it hasn't flown in over a month.

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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ #RCAF CC-150 Polaris (4/5, 80% βœ…)

β€£ 15002 is still going through some stuff at Mirabel, possibly out of commission for months.

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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ #RCAF CC-144C/D Challenger (4/4, 100% βœ…)

β€£ 144618 may be out for maintenance. They haven't flown in just ten days, but the pace of the rest is frantic.

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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Where is the #RCAF today?
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ #RCAF CC-177 Globemaster III (4/5, 80% βœ…)

β€£ 177701 just got back from Haiti
β€£ 177702 is somewhere on the other side of the planet
β€£ 177703 is still in San Antonio πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ (since August πŸ§‘β€πŸ”§)
β€£ 177705 arrived in Bagotville yesterday

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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Latest assessment of CH-149 Cormorant distribution and readiness based on their Mode-S transponder emissions.

Summary:
β€£ 3 at #CFBGreenwood
β€£ 2 at #CFBGander
β€£ 3 at #CFBComox

Meaning, 43% of the #RCAF CH-149 Cormorant helicopters are up on blocks.

#103Sqn #413Sqn #442Sqn
43% laid up and out of commission?

Is that bad?

It's not good.

Thankfully the Cormorant Mid-Life Upgrade is underway, scheduled to be completely finished by 2028, but they haven't awarded the contract yet...
I thought it was Leonardo that couldn't follow basic instructions and misconfigured almost all their transponders in the #RCAF CH-149 Cormorant fleet, but that's none of my business, I could be wrong, and I haven't seen that investigation the RCAF promised either. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ
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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ 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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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡΄ 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.

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ #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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