Armed CF18s scramble to shadow jet with bomb threat.

[mariomike]

"The tally is in for the cost of dispatching two Canadian fighter jets to escort a Cathay Pacific plane to Vancouver International Airport after last weekend's bomb threat.":
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100523/national/bomb_threats

 

[Zoomie]

Utter BS - you can't tally up flight hours that have already been paid for.  In the grand scheme of things, this intercept gave the fighter guys something worthwhile to do with their days sitting in the QRA hangar.

 

[mariomike]

They bill $350.00 per hour for each fire vehicle dispatched to malicious and nuisance false alarms in Toronto.
Reading of fighter jets responding to malicious false alarms is a newer phenomenon. I guess they too had to come up with a cost per hour.

 

[DexOlesa]

You can have the disclaimer for being a dumbass
I'll take the disclaimer for lacking experience and knowledge.

You may lack experience but you were 100% right. You have to make visual contact with the pilots.

http://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Military_Interception_Signalling

The Interception

Day VMC
If there are two intercepting aircraft, the second will usually adopt a surveillance position while the lead aircraft moves in closer to positively identify the aircraft and the status of its flight crew. Separation should not be less tha the minimum necessary to identify aircraft and flight crew status.

This is also all laid out in the Canada Flight Supplement I just can't find my copy at the moment

 

[Jarnhamar]

It's a little known fact that the lead jet actually flips upside down on top of the other plane to get a better look inside the cockpit.

 

[DexOlesa]

"must have been 2 no 1 and a half meters it was beautiful. I have a great Polaroid"

 

[Eye In The Sky]

You may lack experience but you were 100% right. You have to make visual contact with the pilots.

http://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Military_Interception_Signalling

The Interception

Day VMC
If there are two intercepting aircraft, the second will usually adopt a surveillance position while the lead aircraft moves in closer to positively identify the aircraft and the status of its flight crew. Separation should not be less tha the minimum necessary to identify aircraft and flight crew status.

This is also all laid out in the Canada Flight Supplement I just can't find my copy at the moment

Good god, another Armour OCdt chiming in on fighter pilot stuff!!!

 

[vonGarvin]

Good god, another Armour OCdt chiming in on fighter pilot stuff!!!

Dex may not be a fighter pilot, but as I recall, he is a pilot.  (Civilian)

 

[aesop081]

Dex may not be a fighter pilot, but as I recall, he is a pilot.  (Civilian)

That and it doesnt take a pilot to read and quote the CFS anyways.

 

[Eye In The Sky]

It was just a friendly jab at some baby Troopie's...should've put a  ;D on the end of that one.

 

[DexOlesa]

No prob If you want my credentials its Commercial Pilots License, Multi Engine Rating, Group 1 Instrument Rating, Class 4 Instructor Rating. Experience on the Britten Norman Islander in Northern Manitoba, Experience in a King Air 200 (big brother of the Multi Trainer for the forces) Roughly 400 hours flight time. Flying since age 5 with my Grandfather who was the Pilot of the New Brunswick Provincial Aircraft under Premier Hatfield. Oh and I'm an OCdt about to sign his papers in the Armoured Corps ;D

 

[Eye In The Sky]

Oh and I'm an OCdt about to sign his papers in the Armoured Corps ;D

Which I saw when I took a boo at your profile.  Having worn a black beret for a quite a few years in a previous life, I still take a chance to poke at baby Troop Leaders in the making when I get a chance...old habits die hard  .

 

[DexOlesa]

Having worn a black beret for a quite a few years in a previous life, I still take a chance to poke at baby Troop Leaders in the making when I get a chance...old habits die hard  .

I'd be disappointed if it were any other way  . Back on topic though, putting up the "cost" of the operation was cheap and served no purpose.

 

[TimBit]

Let's see how the press discusses the savings when there is no intercept because of $$$ and it turns out to be a real threat!

Oh, but that's right, we don't need the press's approval to conduct our activities so the intercept would take place anyway.

Storm in a teacup...

 

[belka]

If only the press knew the real operating costs of the CF18's, their heads would explode. Atleast they saved a few bucks coming from the island rather than flying all the way from Alberta.

 

[SupersonicMax]

Let's see how the press discusses the savings when there is no intercept because of $$$ and it turns out to be a real threat!

Oh, but that's right, we don't need the press's approval to conduct our activities so the intercept would take place anyway.

Storm in a teacup...

What people do not know is that the money for those hours flown have been allocated at the beginning of the FY.