Amberley (ICAO: YAMB) is our local Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military airbase located 8 km (5.0 miles) southwest of Ipswich, Queensland and 50 km (31 miles) southwest of Brisbane. It is currently home to No.1 Squadron and No. 6 Squadron (operating the F/A-18F Super Hornets), No. 33 Squadron (operating the Airbus KC-30A) and No. 36 Squadron (operating the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III). It is Air Force's largest base and employs over 5000 people. Amberley has two runways, the main runway 15/33 is 3,047 metres (9,997 ft) Concrete/Asphalt and the second runway is 04/22 1,523 metres (4,997 ft) Concrete/Asphalt
Working the area on Thursday I took my camera out with me so when I finished for the day hopefully I would get some military action. It really is hit or miss out at Amberley, I have spent many hours out there and had nothing at all. This time I was only there for three minutes before the first arrival, a KC-30A. Then I noticed not one, but two C17 Globemasters doing circuits. Then amongst all of this three F/A-18F Super Hornets flew over the top of me and did a low flying circuit before coming in to land. To finish off I had another KC-30A come in to land.
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