C130 Low Flying

[Gerard M]

Just saw a C-130 fly over my house in Baulkham Hils quite low and fast, heading Sydney airport way. Does anyone know whether it was heading to do a fly by over Sydney somewhere or just the hooning around?

Thanks

Gerard

[Andrew McLaughlin]

Just saw a C-130 fly over my house in Baulkham Hils quite low and fast, heading Sydney airport way. Does anyone know whether it was heading to do a fly by over Sydney somewhere or just the hooning around?

Thanks

Gerard

Unlikely that it would be "hooning around"! :rolleyes:

Seeing as it is Australia Day, don't you think it's most likely off to do a flyby somewhere???

[Gerard M]

Unlikely that it would be "hooning around"! :rolleyes:

Seeing as it is Australia Day, don't you think it's most likely off to do a flyby somewhere???

Yeah i thought hooning probably wouldn't be right, but was just wondering where it was heading thats all.

[Sarah C]

I saw it too (more correctly, I heard it!). Nice to see it - I would guess it has been flying around the harbour and was returning to Richmond.

[Ryan P]

At 1611hrs heard a low flying aircraft over my place in Neutral Bay. Managed to catch a glimpse at it headed south over the Harbour then banked left which would take it over North Head judging from where I was.
I was unable to identify the aircraft but judging by the sound and size I would guess it was the C130.

Strangely I was unable to see it on Webtrack. (waited the 40 mins to check)

[Philip Argy]

Flew over my beach around 16:01 at no more than 150m I'd estimate - certainly the lowest flypast I've seen for a long time. It did a repeat about 4 km north some 20 mins later.

Oddly no trace of either flight appears on Webtrak - does anyone know why? Obviously it would have been radar tracked so has someone tampered with Webtrak to conceal the low level of the flight or am I just beong suspicious?

[Andrew McLaughlin]

Has anyone ever seen a military aircraft on Webtrack?

[AdamB]

Just a wild guess, but could it be because a military aircraft has a different transponder code/frequency to a civilian one? I presume atc can see it on their screens but maybe webtrak is not equiped or set up to do so?

[damien b]

I would assume that webtrack would not show military aircraft for security reasons - and yes i know doing a flyby is not secret, but i would guess that the program is designed to omit all military traffic. Military transponders do have extra capabilities and selections compared to civil models.

[Noel White]

From the very quick glance that I saw of it, it was a C130H flying north from the Homebush Bay area heading north towards Pennant Hills with nothing on the altimeter other than the manufacturer's name. (Sorry, couldn't resist that one :D). My wife reckoned that she could see the colour of the pilot's eyes.

Cheers,

Noel

[Nigel C]

I saw it do a return high speed fly-by at 1600 and then again do a one-way slower speed run at 1620 at Homebush. Was an H model C130, and it was around 500' for both runs.