The warbird approach is so much easier/better if you've got the knots to qualify to use it. Fisk always feels like your just waiting for a midair to occur.
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Random Griz Aviation Musings
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Even your carbon monoxide scratch-and-sniff is fresh! Nice aircraft.
Now, since I’m retired from uniformed service and no longer earn a heartfelt “Thank you for you4 service” I have decided that military members and those affiliated, like @ChuckMK23, should now thank me for my tax contributions. “Thank you for your contribution.” Proud to be twice the patriot!
Oddly redundant since the G1000 suite contains a cabin CO detector and annunciator. But CAP insists on a old school one as well, replaced annually.
First time of several while a civilian to Osh Kosh was when my roommate & I took our boss's C-170 there during our college years in the early '70's. " I remember the non-stop radio transmissions going something like this, "Blue & white Cessna, follow the red & white Cherokee …….. Bonanza, keep your speed up & plan to touch down at midfield and roll to the end. Luscomb, touch down at the numbers & exit left into the grass as soon as you can." Later, took A-4's there a couple of times while in the Navy. Much easier.
It is a thing of beauty. Just Git-er-dun. I felt challanged, never unsafe. Takeoffs are equally cool. Both sides of the runway simultaneously. Flagman waving you when to roll. He sets your interval by sound and time rarely turning around to see where the previous departure is on the runway.
skybert
Skybert
Last year when I flew it, was the worst I’ve ever experienced
Brings back so many good memories, CAP in NJ and FL.
I was happy to see CAP Cadets working the static aircraft displays at the JB MDL Airshow last month.
They are a great example of and for our next generations' leaders.
The last time I took a -60 into Sun 'n Fun, they told me to plan on the helicopter arrival. I wasn't super excited about that and I had planned for the Warbird Arrival, but made the effort to go over there and at least look at it. The scene below us always made me think of the Simpsons when Lisa gets high and goes into a Beatles cartoon, with every kind of helicopter-like contraption flitting about.
I opted to not go down there, where I was sure we'd either hit another aircraft or blow at least one away. As we moved back over the runway at altitude, a B-17 was lumbering along underneath us doing a fly-by. I asked Tower for the Warbird Arrival and stated it was too risky for the helo arrival. The guy in the Tower (who was from Jax TRACON, as I learned later) told me something along the lines that there wasn't much time and the field was about to close for the airshow (we still had 15 minutes). I took this to mean I wasn't fast enough for the arrival in his mind. I then said, "The B-17 is still in the pattern and I can guarantee I'm faster than it is."
It was clear the Tower was a bit overwhelmed, as comms were breaking down fast (I confirmed we were on the bottom antenna) and then he told me to "just auto straight down." Sigh. I also learned later that because this guy was from Jax, he "knew" how helicopters flew, since "the -60s would come over to KJAX all the time."
I ended up doing some half-assed auto that I would never do again and we side stepped to the taxiway to shut down and get towed, but what a circus.