Who knows what they were doing. I spotted a 737 from the 89th Airlift Wing last night…callsign SPAR 19.
I shoot competitively and have a $2800 NightForce spotting scope. I can ID a plane @35k ft that is 6 miles away from me. It’s a metric ton of fun sitting on my front porch, watching the aircraft coming up and down the coast and picking them up on the spotting scope!
The real fun is trying to guess the carrier on the more subtle planes and then checking on here to see if I was right.
SWA is pretty easy to ID obviously! ha