[ScanIndiana] Indianapolis airshow

[Duane Mantick]

Hey OM, thanks very much for the reply information.  We ended up not going over uncertainties of the weather and just not enough time to get prepared to do my video/monitoring thing.........and frankly, at $20 a head for two of us plus incidental expenses right now it was just a little too pricey.

I am disappointed that there wasn't more promotion of the thing here in the LayFlat (Lafayette) :-)   area.  With Grissom no longer holding their openhouse/airshow and the 181st gone out of Terre Haute, and Chanute over in Illinois closed down enough such that they don't, the event at Mount Comfort is rapidly becoming the only game in town, so to speak.  I don't know what is happening at Fort Wayne anymore, if anything.  And the biggie over in Dayton, OH is just a big pain in the ass.  About the only reason to go to that one anymore might be to see something (such as you can if you haven't bought the VIP seating) and then have a good excuse to go to the USAF Museum.  :-)

Well, we can always hope for next year.........

Duane
WB9OMC


--- On Sun, 6/7/09, kb9tdj <kb9tdj at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: kb9tdj <kb9tdj at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [ScanIndiana] Indianapolis airshow
> To: "Indiana Scanning" <scanindiana at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Sunday, June 7, 2009, 7:10 AM
> Go to http://indyairshow.com/visitors/directions/ and you'll
> see a pilot 
> handbook in pdf format that contains the tower, ground,
> unicom freqs, etc.
> 
> Got these freqs for the Blue Angels from the "MT's annual
> Airshow Guide) 
> from Monitoring Times <http://www.monitoringtimes.com/> website:
> 
> 237.800  Solos
> 250.975  Diamond
> 255.200  Circle & arrivals discrete
> 275.350   Diamond
> 284.250  Show Box
> 303.500  Fat Albert
> 346.500 Checklist frequency
> 
> 
> Try 122.475 for the A-10 demo team (other freqs are in the
> MT airshow 
> giude as well).
> 
> I did hear plenty of action on these freqs on Friday. 
> One of the solos 
> had to abort out toward the end of the show as he lost his
> airpseed 
> indicator.  Heard him talking with the ground going
> through checklists 
> to troubleshoot.  Unfortunately I don't know what freq
> that was (it was 
> one of the above) as I had camera in hand taking lots of
> pictures and 
> didn't have time to pick up the scanner.
> 
> 
> 
> Duane Mantick wrote:
> >
> > It wasn't until about 3PM Saturday that I even knew
> the airshow was this weekend.......wondered if anyone went
> and looking for any information, frequencies, etc. in case
> we try for the Sunday show.
> >
> > Duane
> > WB9OMC
> > West Lafayette
> >
> >
> >
> >       
> >
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