Airspace violation protocol

[pointy31]

AIRSPACE VIOLATION PROTOCOL
According to a Marine Pilot:

In addition to communicating with the local Air Traffic Control
facility,
all aircraft in the Persian Gulf AOR are required to give the Iranian
Air
Defense Radar (military) a ten minute 'heads up' if they will be
transiting
Iranian airspace.

This is a common procedure for commercial aircraft and involves giving
them
your call sign, transponder code, type aircraft, and points of origin
and
destination.

I just flew with a guy who overheard this conversation on the VHF Guard
(emergency) frequency 121.5 MHz while flying from Europe to Dubai . It's
too
good not to pass along. The conversation went something like this...

Air Defense Radar: 'Unknown aircraft at (location unknown), you are in
Iranian airspace. Identify yourself.'

Aircraft: 'This is a United States aircraft. I am in Iraqi airspace.'

Air Defense Radar: 'You are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart
our
airspace we will launch interceptor aircraft!'

Aircraft: 'This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send 'em
up,
I'll wait!'

Air Defense Radar: (no response ... total silence)

[rayrey10]

Ooh-Rah :icon31:

[chrisf36]

Guess the Iranians didn't want to play.....:costumes:

[Wulf190]

What was not said is that the FA-18 had F-14s for escort. :gossip:

[Quicksand]

:applause::applause::costumes::medals:

[Drake]

What was not said is that the FA-18 had F-14s for escort. :gossip:

And the Tomcats had a single Raptor as their escort. :caked:

[FengZ]

haha, good one!

[GT182]

Sounds like they figured out their borders didn't extend as far as they thought, and they didn't want to play anymore of their stupid games. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v64/GT182/pound.gif

[Railrunner130]

The story I heard had the F-18 pilot being female and the Iranians being very disrespectful in retort.

[David_L6]

That's FUNNY!