[MilCom] WPAFB Wednesday

[sabre59 at aol.com]

Toledo F-16s and the WP controllers apparently don't care for each other!
 
Loma 11 flight (2x F-16).....11 makes several passes as 12 goes back out to radar. Pilot keeps asking for closed traffic but goes out to initial each time. Tower gets a little peeved, especially when the 16 doesn't seem to be able to see the PA-28 that is shooting approaches on the left runway OR the approaching Gulfstream !
 
NASA 3 (Gulfstream) land 23 right
Open Skies 29 Foxtrot (OC-135) land 23 right
Ascot 4620 (Hercules) land 23 right
 
Loma 12.....begins series of approaches just after 11 heads out. Doing the same thing. Tower tries telling him what he is doing wrong, but the pilot doesn't seem to understand. He states," You're talking to someone who hasn't flown here since March". Second operator comes on and explains that if he is given right closed it does not mean he is cleared to go out to a five-mile initial for an overhead approach. Pilot responds , " Now I'm all confused after 22 years of flying. What's your phone number up there?" (tower gives it to him) "I'll give you a call after we get back to Springfield". 
 
Buck (?) 401 (T-39) depart 23 right  (also sounded like Box. Was NOT saying Fox)
JOSA 302 (C-21) land 23 right
JOSA 556 ditto
Reach 18 (described as 'formerly JOSA 479') land 23 right
Ascot 4062 depart 23 right heading to Tinker
Astro 11 (F-16, 178th) multiple approaches 23 right
Jocko 31 ditto
 
 
Brian,at "The Spot"