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Aviation Audio Clips / A380 Lufthansa 1JR departing LAX, remembering Jürgen Raps

« Last post by flyflyfly on December 11, 2025, 20:46:07 UTC »

Recording of "LH 1JR (Super)" departing LAX on December 10th, 2025.

This flight, Los Angeles - Munich, normally bears the callsign "LH253". The callsign was changed on the occasion to remember former Lufthansa Captain Jürgen Raps (JR), who passed away a few days ago, aged 74.

He had been flying for Lufthansa for 40 years - and held almost every position an airline pilot could hope for (A380 captain, delivering LH's very first A380 in 2010, LH chief pilot, director of the flight school, board member, ...).

He became a little famous (in aviation geek circles) after his active career, as his retirement flight in 2011 (A380, Frankfurt - San Francisco - Frankfurt) had been documented by PilotsEye cockpit videos. The videos were later made freely available on Youtube, and have since racked up tens of millions of views.

Probably not a coincidence: the aircraft of "LH 1JR", registration D-AIMA, actually was Lufthansa's very first A380. The very aircraft which Captain Raps had delivered in 2010.

Otherwise, except for the callsign, absolutely nothing special about this recording. Just a normal A380 departure... 

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Aviation Audio Clips / Piper PA28 strikes a deer on take off North Houston Regional

« Last post by KB4TEZ on December 11, 2025, 13:49:51 UTC »

oh dear ! (pun intended) glad both are ok

IDENTIFICATION
Date:   10-DEC-25
Time:   12:41:00Z
Regis#:   N6058F
Aircraft Make:   PIPER
Aircraft Model:   PA28
Event Type:   INCIDENT
Highest Injury:   NONE
Aircraft Missing:   No
Damage:   UNKNOWN
LOCATION
City:   HOUSTON
State:   TEXAS
Country:   UNITED STATES
DESCRIPTION
Description:   AIRCRAFT STRUCK A DEER ON TAKEOFF AND LEFT GEAR COLLAPSED, HOUSTON, TX.

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Aviation Audio Clips / Plane makes emergency landing at Rockford airport

« Last post by KB4TEZ on December 11, 2025, 12:19:56 UTC »

https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/plane-makes-emergency-landing-at-rockford-airport/amp/

(this has to be the absolute calmest engine failure I've every heard.)

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — First responders rushed to the Chicago Rockford International Airport on Wednesday afternoon after a small plane circled in for an emergency landing.

According to FlightAware, the twin-engine Cessna Chancellor flight originated at Iron Mountain Airport in Kingsford, Michigan, and departed there at 3:35 p.m.
Reports suggested the plane had lost power to one of its engines.

  At 4:37 p.m., multiple fire departments responded to the airport as the plane was on approach.

It landed safely at 5 p.m.


https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/563281

Type:   Silhouette image of generic C414 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different   
Cessna 414A Chancellor
Owner/operator:   Raptor 414 AirMotive LLC
Registration:   N414MD
MSN:   414A0436
Year of manufacture:   1979
Fatalities:   Fatalities: 0 / Occupants:
Other fatalities:   0
Aircraft damage:   Unknown
Category:   Incident
Location:   Chicago/Rockford International Airport, IL (RFD/KRFD) -    United States of America
Phase:   Approach
Nature:   Private
Departure airport:   Iron Mountain-Ford Airport, MI (IMT/KIMT)
Destination airport:   Chicago/Rockford International Airport, IL (RFD/KRFD)
Investigating agency:    NTSB
Confidence Rating:    Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Narrative:
A Cessna 414, N414MD, suffered an engine failure on approach to Chicago Rockford. The aircraft landed safely.

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Aviation Audio Clips / Wind gust blows a GA8 off the runway after landing at PANC

« Last post by KB4TEZ on December 09, 2025, 17:27:08 UTC »

(just a normal day at Ted Stevens, and then the wind, and then it gets interesting.  ATC pretty cool )

Date:   Monday 8 December 2025
Time:   c. 12:55 LT
Type:   Silhouette image of generic GA8 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different   
GippsAero GA8 Airvan
Owner/operator:   Grant Aviation Inc
Registration:   N680GV
MSN:   GA8-03-036
Fatalities:   Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:   0
Aircraft damage:   Unknown
Location:   Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC/PANC), Anchorage, AK -    United States of America
Phase:   Landing
Nature:   Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:   Soldotna Airport, AK (SXQ/PASX)
Destination airport:   Anchorage-Ted Stevens International Airport, AK (ANC/PANC)
Confidence Rating:    Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities
Narrative:
A GippsAero GA8 Airvan, N680GV, encountered a gust of wind upon landing on runway 33 and was blown off the runway, incurring a propeller strike. No injuries.

At the time, winds were from 030° at 27 knots, gusting 48 knots. The calculated crosswind component was ~41 knots.

Weather:
METAR PANC 082053Z 03023G39KT 10SM CLR M06/M21 A2947 RMK AO2 PK WND 04039/2052 SLP982 T10611206 51012
METAR PANC 082153Z 03027G48KT 10SM CLR M06/M20 A2948 RMK AO2 PK WND 04048/2147 SLP986 T10561200 <<<
Sources:

FAA ASIAS
https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=N680GV
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N680GV/history/20251208/2104Z/PASX/PANC
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a903e1&lat=61.173&lon=-150.000&zoom=14.9&showTrace=2025-12-08&leg=1&trackLabels

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Aviation Audio Clips / UA5344 Control issues after departure returns to KORD

« Last post by KB4TEZ on December 09, 2025, 12:04:56 UTC »

(once landed, no clear audio, glad all are safe)

Date:   Monday 8 December 2025
Time:   c. 17:45 UTC
Type:   Silhouette image of generic CRJ2 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different   
Bombardier CRJ-200LR
Owner/operator:   United Express, opb. SkyWest Airlines
Registration:   N963SW
MSN:   7865
Year of manufacture:   2003
Engine model:   GE CF34-3B1
Fatalities:   Fatalities: 0 / Occupants:
Other fatalities:   0
Aircraft damage:   None
Location:   near Chicago, IL -    United States of America
Phase:   Initial climb
Nature:   Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:   Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, IL (ORD/KORD)
Destination airport:   Saginaw-Tri City Airport, MI (MBS/KMBS)
Confidence Rating:    Little or no information is available
Narrative:
United flight UA5344, a Bombardier CRJ-200LR, reportedly experienced flight control issues after takeoff from ORD.
The flight returned to ORD and landed safely, 13 minutes after takeoff.

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Listener Forum / Re: CYWG Status

« Last post by drose12 on December 07, 2025, 23:38:00 UTC »

I have 6 SDRs for ATC audio and one doing ADSB.  To be honest, what I was trying / playing around with is multichannel mode with rtlsdrairband where I could put something like clearance and ground on one stream  (clearance in the left ear, and ground on the right ear) ... in my current scan mode, often I miss part of the conversation because with the pause in conversations between ATC and the pilot the SDR will move on to scanning again and miss the transmission or it locks in on another frequency and you miss it.  The thought here is that generally speaking in Winnipeg there isnt often a lot of  clearance, ground and tower all transmitting at the same time, and it kinda naturally flows through that position workflow.   So my thought was  clearance / ground on one stream,  then  ground / tower on another stream and maybe tower / departure on the  last ...  I've been experimenting with the "mixers" on rtlsdrairband and while it "works" the audio has echo even though I am setting them to full LEFT or full RIGHT on the stereo, and I can also see that both channels are moving in the audio bars visual in your audio player, so its almost like its not really doing what I expect anyhow.  But maybe what would be cooler (but kinda much more complicated)  is to  have a "mixer app" that can take multiple single ATC position streams and do the mixing of those outside of the rtlsdrairband  and then actually you could mix multiple airports!  But that is way advanced for what I'm trying right now, I can claude code that in another project I suppose.   From what I've found so far is there might actually be a bug in the mixer code for rtlsdrairband or I'm configuring it wrong. I'll keep testing configurations and see if I can get it working otherwise the scan mode does work fine.

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Listener Forum / Re: CYWG Status

« Last post by RonR on December 07, 2025, 22:25:47 UTC »

Just some food for thought... it would be possible to set up individual separate streams for each of the frequencies in your current CYWG feeds using just three SDRs (assuming, of course, that's what you're trying to do).  Not sure how many SDRs you're already using; just wanted to throw that out there

Ron

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Listener Forum / CYWG Status

« Last post by drose12 on December 07, 2025, 15:01:03 UTC »

Anyone who listens regularly I'm making some changes as I have just installed a Stridsberg Multicoupler and I need to adjust and test the various gain and squelch settings which of course requires restarts of the rtlsdrairband software.  I will also be experimenting with moving from a scan mode to using mixers and hoping to remove some of the "lost" parts of conversations when the scan mode engages. Also adding even more Nooelec SDRs as well. Thanks for your understanding.

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Listener Forum / Open to sponsoring feed equipment in Switzerland

« Last post by zurichsfobased on December 07, 2025, 13:29:10 UTC »

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to state in case there is anyone in Switzerland near an unlisted airport aerodrome I would be able to get an antenna, SDR, airbandfilter, rasperrypi, SSD card to you for broadcasting within a week. I am currently on a Switzerland live ATC set up binge , we were able to get LSGK up and running yesterday (though it still needs some tuning)

Please write here or send me a message if interested.

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Aviation Audio Clips / Re: KDCA 12/6/25 2020Z - Air Defense Scramble for Piper Cherokee in the SFRA

« Last post by baldiedc on December 07, 2025, 05:10:52 UTC »

tracking pics...