Hornets at Richmond
 

Heard on the radio just now that there are some hornets flying into or around richmond at the moment or quite soon.
Anyone know what the occasion is?

Cheers.

Gerard

Probably just standard landing practice for the pilots. They use Richmond all the time as its a short flight from home base and a less crowded airspace these days.

About a month ago, they were doing some work on the arrester cables.... don't know if that is related to today.

Just heard what i think is Maple 10, or it might have been naple, and Tester 13 (?) on approach to Richmond, but is that a RAAF hornet or something else? Cant say that it had a distinctive Australian accent but still? Any ideas?

RAAF/ADF sometime use the 'tester' callsign for aircraft undergoing test flights after major servicings - other than that, no idea.

Tester is form ARDU. Maple is a Hornet.

Cheers, thanks for that Mick & Damien.

Maple is the callsign for 2 OCU or the hornet training squadron based at willi. A single aircraft would be maple 10 etc but flights or multiple aircraft from 2OCU are usually hipshot 1, 2 etc or hawkeye and have heard hoodoo or something like that

Are we sure that the callsign wasnt "CHESTER" thats a callsign the ARDU PC9