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Curious if anyone has any dates or info on 2022 Red Flags yet? Trying to plan out some trips. I expect there will be one in Jan/Feb, and then one in mid-late March. Either could work for my plans.

Ryan,

I'm thinking about doing the same.

I came across this on the Scramble Message Boards. It's Luke AFB's calendar. They list March7-18 as Red Flag 22-1, but going by previous years, it is usually Flag#2 and #1 is late Jan/early Feb. Side note, someone responded to the post about the Luke calendar, saying RF-1 is going to be from January 17- February 4, which is at this point is speculation.

Also, the March Red Flag ends the weekend of the Luke Days show. Just sayin


https://www.calendarwiz.com/calendars/c ... 0716665919

I use the Scramble boards and Dreamland Resort pages to keep an eye on Red Flag info. They both usually post aircraft lists for the flags as well. I have seen Dreamland say that they get the aircraft lists from a FOIA request from Nellis AFB. I'm not sure how that works though lol

https://www.scramble.nl/community/messa ... /88/159673

https://dreamlandresort.com/

This was posted on the Dreamland Resort discussion board by their webmaster, Joerg Arnu:

I have posted my best guess for the 2022 Nellis exercise dates. The dates are only a somewhat educated guess based on previous year's schedule. We have filed a FOIA request for the official dates but based on past experience I do not expect a reply any time soon; if at all.

The last few years our predicted dates were mostly correct, but no guarantees. We will update the schedule when/if we receive a reply to our FOIA request.

The predicted dates for next year's Red Flags:

22-1: January 24 - February 11
22-2: March 7 - March18
22-3: July 18 - August 5

Again, these dates are an estimate based on previous years flags. Hopefully we get dates confirmed soon. Participant lists would be nice too

Dreamland has not altered those dates as of mid Dec.
https://www.dreamlandresort.com/info/flags.html

RyanS wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 4:05 pm Curious if anyone has any dates or info on 2022 Red Flags yet? Trying to plan out some trips. I expect there will be one in Jan/Feb, and then one in mid-late March. Either could work for my plans.

Hi Ryan

Just saw this now. The dates above are accurate. If restrictions allow I'd like to do -1 and -2.

This is a great site for exercises:
https://www.scramble.nl/planning/sis-summary

To throw a wrench in all this, a poster on the Dreamland discussion board stated he has a source from Nellis AFB and states RF 22-1 is Jan 31-Feb 11

I wish Nellis would post the dates themselves so we can end the speculation lol

In other news, if the above is true, I need to rebook a flight to a week later (oops). That's if I even decide to go with this new omicron variant out there. My booster appointment isn't until Feb 5th as it's a logjam with everyone in Ontario trying to get it.

So....we'll see

A post on the Dreamland Resort message boards confirms the dates of January 24 - February 11th.

The post also listed participants!

RF 2022-01 24 Jan - 11 Feb

Players

10 Sqn K2
12th ACCS E-8C
1(F) Sqn Typhoon
179th FS F-16CM
2 Sqn E7A
23d BS B-52H
335th FS F-15E
38th RS RC-135VW
348th RS RQ-40B
393d BS B-2A
41st RQS HH-60W
41st TES Typhoon
421st FS F-35A
43d ECS EC-130H
50th ATKS MQ-9
75th FS A-10C
79th RQS HC-130J
94th FS F-22A
6th ARW KC-135R
964th AACS E-3G
VAQ 134 EA-18G
VAQ 142 EA-18G

Subject to change with Covid out there.

Lossie Launch - 1 Squadron
Ascot9511 - ZK374
Ascot9512 - ZK425
Ascot9513 - ZK439
Ascot9514 - ZK431
Being Taken Across Using ZZ332

CGY Launch - 41 Squadron
Ascot9515 - ZK339
Ascot9516 - ZK365
Ascot9517 - ZK375
Ascot9518 - ZK433
Being taken across using ZZ334

“All Going To The USA For Red Flag, Held At Nellis AFB”

I live on the south side of Vegas, within earshot but not eyeshot of Nellis. There's been a lot of rumbling the last few days and after checking ADS-B today I found tracks of RAF Voyagers and a Typhoon, so I wonder of 22-1 has kicked off early?

Voyager ZZ334 orbiting SE of Nellis range: Typhoon ZK377 and Voyager ZZ331 enroute to Nellis:

Galil545x39 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 11:02 pm I live on the south side of Vegas, within earshot but not eyeshot of Nellis. There's been a lot of rumbling the last few days and after checking ADS-B today I found tracks of RAF Voyagers and a Typhoon, so I wonder of 22-1 has kicked off early?

Voyager ZZ334 orbiting SE of Nellis range:
20220114 Voyager ZZ334 orbit.jpg

Typhoon ZK377 and Voyager ZZ331 enroute to Nellis:
20220114 Voyager ZZ331 Typhoon ZK377 enroute Nellis.jpg

I believe participating pilots get some familiarization flights on the range ahead of RF actually starting, or maybe just 'normal' training missions?