G20 - Fighters vs 'Cessna' interception?

[Head in the clouds]

6:25 pm 15/11 - I'm on the ground about 30Nm south of the G20 activities and in a total 'no-fly' exclusion zone for GA - the air traffic has been noticeably absent for the last little while - and suddenly we have big noise of military jets flying low and working hard at flying very slow.

 

It's just a few minutes before last light though I can see them quite clearly, but can't be sure they're F18s, certainly look like them, and they were apparently trying to intercept a 'Cessna' at about 1500-2000ft travelling NW, probably toward Archerfield. A thought could be that it's someone who doesn't read the news or the NOTAMS ...

 

Anyway maybe it'll be on the news in a while. The 'Cessna' was over an area called Logan at the time, an area not completely without its share of 'radical extremists' for want of a better description, not that that necessarily has anything to do with it.

 

I wouldn't want to be the pilot when they catch up with him/her

 

 

[RKW]

He may wind up with a hornet up his pitot tube!

 

 

[Guest Howard Hughes]

I want to know at what point do they shoot intruders down...

 

 

[RKW]

I want to know at what point do they shoot intruders down...

Just when they get them in the crosshairs and can see the whites of there eyes!

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

Like the poor pilot of the 337 trying to get into YBK during APEC. He had filed a plan for entry time and was correctly complying and still got a flare across his nose for his trouble.

 

 

[RKW]

The hornets are getting a good workout tonight. I can hear them but cannot see them. The kc30 tanker is orbiting to the south west. Aerial refuelling at night woul require some skill.

 

 

[recflyer]

On the flight radar app there is a Qld police service cessna caravan reg vh-psq above the city at approx 9000 feet as well.

 

 

[fly_tornado]

Perhaps the Cessna was flown by Abbott's speech writer? Lost and without a clue

 

 

[RKW]

Oh dear, he's at it again

 

 

[bexrbetter]

On the flight radar app there is a Qld police service cessna caravan reg vh-psq above the city at approx 9000 feet as well.

Knowing Military efficiency, that's probably the Cessna they are chasing!

 

 

[fly_tornado]

hornets shadowing putin's fleet?

 

http://m.theaustralian.com.au/business/in-depth/russia-says-fleet-of-warships-is-off-australia-for-climate-research/story-fnpebfcn-1227123047034