Obviously questions have been left unanswered in this forum.Thermal wrote:So I am planning a few trips to Luke AFB. I already checked the info here on scramble. The airfield guide says "When visiting Luke AFB, as important as with any other US military installation: you should stay at all times away from the fence to avoid problems with the base security forces."
My question: how must I interpret this exactly? Are you not allowed to come even close (say 50m-100m) to the fence? And if they see you at some distance from the fence is it OK to make pictures anyway? How difficult is security over there? Being a student on a student visa I can not afford any problems. So I want to be really carefull.
I was there 20 years ago, and again last week. So here's my log from 11 May 0900-1100:
21 FS: 93-705, 93-706, 93-708, 93-711 (21FS CO a/c), 93-816 (all singles)
309 FS: singles; 90-786, 90-739, 88-412, 90-766, 90-759, 90-732, 88-496 twins: 88-164, 90-737, 89-103, 88-158, 88-159
310 FS: twins: 90-778, 90-793, 90-787, 89-159, 88-163
also seen landing on parallel runway were three Danish F16s, 966FW CO a/c and many others. I counted about 50 take-offs while I was there. .
Some F16s were the same as 20 years ago!
Spotting postion was on the east side of base, in the fields not too close to the fence. Aircraft landing on the closest runway could be photographed with 300 mm.
No visits buy law enforcement.
Very hot, no protection against heat or wind.