Chania (Souda Bay) LGSA 2015

[Bennie]

Expected July 7th:
RRR9101 (ZZ331)
SHUCK80(75-0556)

[Militaryspotter7]

03:17bst July 15th something weak calling D... 033 , American inbound to land at souda, can anybody tie this up for me thanks very much
comms were heard via liveatc.net on the LGGG feed

[Bennie]

Expe July 18th:
AME4803 (CN235)
CNV6343 (900531)
DF21 (156514)
VVRD563 (158563)

[Bennie]

03:17bst July 15th something weak calling D... 033 , American inbound to land at souda, can anybody tie this up for me thanks very much
comms were heard via liveatc.net on the LGGG feed

My guess would be DARE33, a Dash 7.

[Gerard]

"CHAF990", presumably C-130 990 of the Chile AF, took off from here this morning (24JUL) and can be seen on FR24.
Presently, as I write, it is between Mallorca and mainland Spain heading west.

Gerard

[Bennie]

"CHAF990", presumably C-130 990 of the Chile AF, took off from here this morning (24JUL) and can be seen on FR24.
Presently, as I write, it is between Mallorca and mainland Spain heading west.

Gerard

Enroute to Las Palmas/GCLP.

[Bennie]

July 25th traffic (expe):
CTM159 (C160)
CTM1595 (C160, F-RAGS)

this is likely to be the same bird..

KQ38 (P3 158224)
QW38 (P3)
RCH112 (KC135 58-0009)

[ebauer]

30/7

Today I noted more than once, a flight of three Apaches in desert camo (!) flying around Cherssonisos at the Greek isle of Crete. So there might be a possibility of some Israeli Apaches operating from Chania/Souda Bay. It looks very spectacular when you see this trio flying low level over Crete!

[falcon]

goto Souda i will say!
just an hour and an quarter from Chersoni...
drive around the airfield trough the civil terminal to the other end of the base, follow the small road when its goes downhill in an right turn you are in approach rw23....

[F17_114PM]

The AH-64 were together with CH-53 in Larissa. They are on their way back to Israel.

[Trabanti]

goto Souda i will say!
just an hour and an quarter from Chersoni...
drive around the airfield trough the civil terminal to the other end of the base, follow the small road when its goes downhill in an right turn you are in approach rw23....

Rwy 29(R) you mean.. Is that the small road leading to that remote church (Ekklisia Agios Nikolaos)? Are you out of sight there and is there some vegetation to get some shade?

And even if (he would abandon his lovely wife and spend hours in the burning sun while he can sip cocktails on the beach surrounded by bikini babes)... Rwy 11(L) is also frequently in use. How are take-offs from here?

Nevetheless, good intel, nice visitors!

[FredL]

Back from one week in Creta.
There were lots of flying activities over there.
I stayed at Rethymnon, 60 kms from Souda Bay.
Last Saturday, we had a Dutch Navy NH-90 (N-318) flying around ships at low level. I suppose she came with one of the navy ships staying at Souda Bay.

From Monday until today, we had many daily flights of 2 to 4 F-16 C/D. On Tuesday, they also flew at night, until around midnight
I spent one day (Wednesday) around the airport of Chania / Souda Bay. Very interesting there also : flying were EO-5C, one US Navy P-3 C and C-26, one C-130 J from Ramstein's 86th Wing, one C-21, and, once again, plenty of Greek F-16s.
A non-flying US Navy EP-3 E was parked there (sqn. VQ-1).

The beach of Kalathas (on the West coast of Akrotiri peninsula) is probably the best place to make pictures of planes taking off, without any risk of being arrested while enjoying a comfortable place in the same time.
For landing ones, on the eastern side, there is a dusty road extremely close to the fence and runway, among the olives trees. But such places are extremely exposed to the risk of police controls... I didn't find any beach or "safe" place to make pictures of landing ones, so I took the chance to shoot some pictures of planes landing from a distant position, to avoid any infringement of the regulation. Furthermore, as I was testing a new camera, I'm not satisfied with the quality of my pictures.

On leaving today, I saw the line-up of old T-33s still present at the western extremity ot the base (they are dumped there for many years). On the pictures I made, it looks like there are 10 of them, one in full orange colour, one in light/silver grey and 8 in the usual Greek Vietnam style camouflage. No serial number appear on the pictures. They look in rather good condition, regarding their long term storage in the open (salty) air of Souda. They also still look to have the ejection seats present. What a pity to see such planes slowly getting rotten.
One more such T-33 was parked next to an F-16 C among the shelters of the eastern side of the air base.
The EP-3 E was still on the ramp this morning and a C-26 left at around 10 AM LT.
The busses parking, at the eastern end of the arrivals terminal offers good opportunities to shoot pictures of planes taking off (the terminal itself is very limited because of protection barriers and its position, at the very end of the runway : planes are usually too high for pictures from this place).

Creta is definitely a place to go to !!

[Bennie]

October 22nd visitor: NAF40.