Hornets at Richmond

[Gerard M]

Heard on the radio just now that there are some hornets flying into or around richmond at the moment or quite soon.
Anyone know what the occasion is?

Cheers.

Gerard

[damien b]

Probably just standard landing practice for the pilots. They use Richmond all the time as its a short flight from home base and a less crowded airspace these days.

[Jethro H]

About a month ago, they were doing some work on the arrester cables.... don't know if that is related to today.

[Gerard M]

Just heard what i think is Maple 10, or it might have been naple, and Tester 13 (?) on approach to Richmond, but is that a RAAF hornet or something else? Cant say that it had a distinctive Australian accent but still? Any ideas?

[damien b]

Originally Posted by Gerard M

Just heard what i think is Maple 10, or it might have been naple, and Tester 13 (?) on approach to Richmond, but is that a RAAF hornet or something else? Cant say that it had a distinctive Australian accent but still? Any ideas?

RAAF/ADF sometime use the 'tester' callsign for aircraft undergoing test flights after major servicings - other than that, no idea.

[Mick.B]

Tester is form ARDU. Maple is a Hornet.

[Gerard M]

Cheers, thanks for that Mick & Damien.

[Adam M.]

Maple is the callsign for 2 OCU or the hornet training squadron based at willi. A single aircraft would be maple 10 etc but flights or multiple aircraft from 2OCU are usually hipshot 1, 2 etc or hawkeye and have heard hoodoo or something like that

[Andrew Neil]

Are we sure that the callsign wasnt "CHESTER" thats a callsign the ARDU PC9