EHAM 26-07-2019 MIL off topic

[Koen L]

By the way , airforce plane inbound and not as Expected a army plane.

Nothing unexpected about that, as CTM is an Air Force callsign

That’s strange than , 33 was Expected and that’s a army one.

Wrong again, 33 is an AdlA aircraft.

[Fink123]

Wrong again, 33 is an AdlA aircraft.[/quote]

On internet i found army

[Fink123]

Use scramble datasbase F-RAXJ doesn’t match with a TBM , 104 registration and XJ for the code

Incorrect.
104 XJ TBM-700A 104 ET00.043 Active feb18 apr18 c/s F-RAXJ

Do you still not believe they use the F-registrations for flightplans Let me back go in fightplan time

FMAXM
FRAVK
FRAXA
FRAXD
FRAXE
FRAXH
FRAXI
FRAXJ
FRAXK
FRAXL
FRAXM
FRAXN
FRAXO
FRAXP
FRAXQ
FRAXR
FRAXS
FRAXZ
FRAZZ

All Cotam flightplans with TMB's.

If you search on scramble database you don’t get a match with F-RAXJ.

[Fink123]

That’s strange than , 33 was Expected and that’s a army one.[/quote]


ALAT use 3 letter codes ABx
AdlA use 2 letter codes Xx
CEV DGA use 2 letter codes Bx (rare)
Codes all part of the F-xxxx c/s[/quote]


You talking about codes , i was talking about the registration......

[Canberra TT.18]

That’s strange than , 33 was Expected and that’s a army one.

ALAT use 3 letter codes ABx
AdlA use 2 letter codes Xx
CEV DGA use 2 letter codes Bx (rare)
Codes all part of the F-xxxx c/s

You talking about codes , i was talking about the registration......

Codes are connected to the call sign and do give away the operator. And now days are fixed to (all) the aircraft, as Frank explained.

So serial (or registration), code and fixed callsign can give away aircrafttype and operator. And one or more of these can be visible on a French military aircraft. The tactical call sign can give away the operator but it won't be visible on a aircraft.

In this case fixed callsign and tactical callsign would give it away as an AdlA aircraft. There is no hint it would be ALAT.

From the past:
Belgium Air Force used to have OT-xxx on the aircraft next to a standard well known serials.
And probably there are more examples.

And yes I write down what is (visible) on the aircraft to identify it, also a civil looking call sign. No Problem