| General Situation | ||||||||
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Situated east of the "Brienzersee", Meiringen is of the F-18 bases in Switzerland. It also hosts F-5.
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| Description | ||||||||
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Coming from Interlaken, take the motorway exit at "Unterbach" and stay on the left hand side. The base is on your left side
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| General Tips/Interesting Visitors | ||||||||
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There are some F-5 and from time to time also some F-18s based here.
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| Frequencies | ||||||||
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The tower frequency is 130.150 MHz
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| Recent Experiences | ||||||||
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It is possible to photograph the aircraft on the taxyway from off base with around 135 mm lens.
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| Remarks | ||||||||
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Meiringen will be one of three Jet bases of the Swiss Air Force and is the only one with underground shelters. Average number of jet operations in the past:
Due to the importance as touristic area, the numbers of missions in the months of July to September will be reduced to 300 missions. |
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