[MilCom] SNOWBIRDS Fly-By Regina Sept 30/07

[Rob Berezowski]

Greetings everyone,

At 10 am Sunday morning, Sept 30, while standing outside of our church, I 
heard the roar and looked up just in time to see a flight of 3 SNOWBIRDS 
doing a low altitude pass, with smoke on. I had a great view as they 
passed almost overhead and then flew off. I watched them circle around and 
head off to the east, when I lost sight of them. I never saw them again, 
so it's not clear to me if they were heading back to Moose Jaw (which is 
west of Regina, so they were flying the wrong way if they were heading 
east), or if they had another destination.

What a nice surprise for a Sunday morning. I did not know until after, but 
the SNOWBIRDS were doing a fly-by at a ceremony honouring fallen peace 
officers being held at the Saskatchewan Legislature. The Leg is just down 
the road from our church. The annual ceremony honours police officers 
killed in the line of duty, and was held in parallel with a national 
ceremony the same day in Ottawa. 

As I said, I did not know about the ceremony beforehand, and of course I 
had no idea the SNOWBIRDS were going to do a fly-by, so of course I had no 
scanner with me. The usual air to air frequency for the SNOWBIRDS is 
272.1, but of course I have no idea what frequency was being used for the 
flyby.

Even if I did know ahead of time about the flyby, I'm sure the pastor of 
our church would take a very dim view of one of his congregation listening 
to a scanner during the sermon!  :-)


Rob
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada




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