I think Ted's on the right track. Might have been IFR and gone NORDO -- that attracts more attention than it used to, especially if it then deviates from its last cleared route. At least this time they didn't send Delta (or was it Southwest) to get a look at them.Not nearly enough info there to know what happened. Im 100% sure it wasn't a guy on a vfr flight plan who decided to go someplace else and got intercepted for it. Probably on an IFR or ADIZ flight plan I would assume, and may have violated one of the R zones.
Some one is trying to rationalize their existence.
Ya, because terrorists are smart enough to file flight plans, but too stupid to follow them. Idiots...
Too bad that 50 SE of Beaufort is jax airspace. Hahahah
It would be kind of cool to be flying next to an F 16 I mean if I screwed up id be a little nervous for repercussions however still a bit cool.
I'm based a few miles from Whiteman AFB (KSZL), and get to fly alongside B-2s, T-38s, A-10s, Blackhawks, as well as others occasionally. Pretty neat sight, but in a bugsmasher it sure doesn't last long.It would be kind of cool to be flying next to an F 16 I mean if I screwed up id be a little nervous for repercussions however still a bit cool.
I dont think theres an R zone, but there are a lot of nuclear weapons at the Charleston Naval Weapons Station too, for what its worth.
The fact that they don't have nuclear weapons platforms based in Charleston nukes won't pass through Charleston AFB (a major airlift base) and be stored there temporarily on their way somewhere else, say, to the boomer base at King's Bay, which has a P-area around it. But in any event, there is no R-area over Charleston AFB or Naval Station Charleston.Why would there be? There's not been a platform to deploy them from based there since the 90's.
It would be kind of cool to be flying next to an F 16 I mean if I screwed up id be a little nervous for repercussions however still a bit cool.