There actually was a very loud alarm. From memory it was about 9:30am this morning (technically yesterday). One can hear the alarms on the base from Kaiserslautern fairly easily, though normally they are just drills.
I don’t know about you but the alarm I’m hearing is that Kaiserslautern needs its own hacker news meet-up :-)
That's what I'm seeing :-)
Greets from America.
There's a lot of us here due to the University. I know some of them personally.
Interesting. Are you on the west side of town? I was stationed on Ramstein and lived in downtown Kaiserslautern. My place was about 15 km from the main base, which is pretty far to pick up sounds. I don't recall hearing many aircraft, even though we were only 12km from the east end of the runway.
I'm on the west yes. But you don't hear planes? It's a constant conveyor belt, even across the city!
Not sure why we didn't hear them--maybe just tuned them out at some point because it was already so loud on base. What I do remember is seeing lots of C-5s landing at night. I used to ride my bike home via Einsiedlerhof, and the road goes right under the flight path. It was like seeing a lit-up piece of the sky break off and and return to earth.