[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

Originally Posted by LewisM

No, not Mike Sidonio dressed like the Mario Brothers

Was up at 1:10 am this morning with a teething child. The baby room and our room is on the third floor, and has a pretty clear view east, north and south. We are basically just west of the extended centreline for runway 36 at Maroochydore (YBMC), and about 3km directly from it - aircraft on approach do their finals not far from our position (unless a straight in approach). We get RPT 737's and A320's, plus some Dash-8's, G.A aircraft, military traffic (mainly C-117's) and a lot of helicopter traffic (McDermott aviation training is at YBMC).

What is a C-117?