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HI KIDS......I had a really nice flight home last Friday. I had spent mos
t of last week working with Morris K in Stockton. He has a huge amount of
work (a good thing in this "Barack Hussein Obama" economy) and I was happy
to help. When it was time to come home, it occurred to me that one of the
airplane we were working on lived in the Seattle area and Washougal was on
the way home. I flew home in Dave Phifer's gorgious 500B with the Merlyn 3
20HP turbo conversion. The airplane is just beautiful with new paint, inte
rior, windows, avionics, everything.
A cool thing happened on the way home. The weather was clear an a mill
ion but I decided to take flight following to stay clear of the many fire T
FRs. As I was handed off to Seattle Center, a bit north of K Falls, in the
middle of nowhere, The controller advised me my traffic was at "nine o'clo
ck and nine miles, a Baron converging, and my radar shows you WILL converge
". Well! She gave the Baron the same info and we began looking for each o
ther. I picked him up at about seven miles separation and called it in. T
he baron still did not see me. Finally the controller called us 4 miles an
d converging. The Baron driver called, rather tersely, "Twin Commander, wh
at is you ground speed?" "236 KTS" I relayed. After several second of sil
ence I asked "Baron, what is YOUR ground speed?" no answer I wonder why!!
. He finally saw me and we passed close enough for me to read his N number
s. I called in the blind and just said, "imagine, we left from different p
laces, at different times, and came this close". The controller came back
and said we had passed each other "less than three tenths of a mile and les
s than one hundred feet apart" Pretty close!
Anyway, it was a great trip home in a great airplane! jb
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I posted it on our facebook page, if you don't mind, JB. I just couldn't
resist. Such a good story.
Thanks
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aero-Commander/144424762275884
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Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 9:37 PM
Subject: Commander-List: NICE FLIGHT
HI KIDS......I had a really nice flight home last Friday. I had spent most
of last week working with Morris K in Stockton. He has a huge amount of
work (a good thing in this "Barack Hussein Obama" economy) and I was happy
to help. When it was time to come home, it occurred to me that one of the
airplane we were working on lived in the Seattle area and Washougal was on
the way home. I flew home in Dave Phifer's gorgious 500B with the Merlyn
320HP turbo conversion. The airplane is just beautiful with new paint,
interior, windows, avionics, everything.
A cool thing happened on the way home. The weather was clear an a
million but I decided to take flight following to stay clear of the many
fire TFRs. As I was handed off to Seattle Center, a bit north of K Falls,
in the middle of nowhere, The controller advised me my traffic was at "nine
o'clock and nine miles, a Baron converging, and my radar shows you WILL
converge". Well! She gave the Baron the same info and we began looking for
each other. I picked him up at about seven miles separation and called it
in. The baron still did not see me. Finally the controller called us 4
miles and converging. The Baron driver called, rather tersely, "Twin
Commander, what is you ground speed?" "236 KTS" I relayed. After several
second of silence I asked "Baron, what is YOUR ground speed?" no answer I
wonder why!!. He finally saw me and we passed close enough for me to read
his N numbers. I called in the blind and just said, "imagine, we left from
different places, at different times, and came this close". The controller
came back and said we had passed each other "less than three tenths of a
mile and less than one hundred feet apart" Pretty close!
Anyway, it was a great trip home in a great airplane! jb
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