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1. 09:20 AM - [Fw: AOPA ePilot -- Bush Bus Tour Airspace Bulletin] (Larry Bowen)
2. 02:30 PM - FW: [SoCAL-RVlist] Fw: Letter from Iraq (Larry Bowen)
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| Subject: | [Fwd: AOPA ePilot -- Bush Bus Tour Airspace Bulletin] |
--> RVSouthEast-List message posted by: "Larry Bowen" <Larry@BowenAero.com>
FYI
What worse than a TFR on short notice? How about a TFR that constantly
moving!
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Larry Bowen
Larry@BowenAero.com
http://BowenAero.com
do not archive
---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
A special notice to AOPA members in the West Virginia and Ohio areas
==> ATTENTION PILOTS <==
FAA TO ESTABLISH TFRs FOR BUSH BUS TOUR
AOPA is sending this message to advise pilots in the West Virginia and
Ohio areas that the FAA is expected to issue notams restricting flight
during President Bush's planned bus tour on Friday, September 10.
The president is expected to start the tour in Huntington, West
Virginia, and complete it in Columbus, Ohio. According to the Bush
campaign, he is scheduled to be in Huntington at 10:35 a.m. local
followed by Portsmouth, Ohio, at 1:25 p.m. local, and Chillicothe, Ohio,
at 4:20 p.m. local.
Based on previous presidential bus tours, expect a
10-nautical-mile-radius general aviation no-fly zone that will
follow along with the bus and extend to 18,000 feet. Also, expect
30-nm-mile-radius temporary flight restrictions (TFRs), most likely over
the aforementioned cities. AOPA will post the notams on AOPA
Online ( http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/notams.html ) as soon as
possible after they are issued. Graphics will also be available.
Because TFR airspace frequently changes, AOPA strongly encourages
pilots to obtain a briefing and CHECK NOTAMS before every flight.
TFR violators will be intercepted and forced to land.
==> HELPFUL WEB LINKS <==
AOPA's Real-Time Flight Planner provides graphical
depictions of TFRs ( http://www.aopa.org/flight_planner/ ).
Check the FAA's TFR Web site ( http://tfr.faa.gov ).
Download the AOPA Air Safety Foundation's intercept procedures card (
http://download.aopa.org/epilot/2003/intercept.pdf )or review ASF's "Know
Before You Go" program ( http://www.aopa.org/asf/know_before/ ).
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| Subject: | FW: [SoCAL-RVlist] Fwd: Letter from Iraq |
--> RVSouthEast-List message posted by: "Larry Bowen" <Larry@BowenAero.com>
Do not archive.
I thought this was pretty good, from the SOCAL list.
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Larry Bowen
Larry@BowenAero.com
http://BowenAero.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laird Owens
> To: SoCAL-RVlist
>
> Since it's been quiet on the list, I thought some of you
> might like this, passed on to me by an ex-A-7 driver buddy of mine.
> Please excuse me if it's not list appropriate, but it least
> is has to do with flying :-) Laird
>
> >>
> >>
> >> Only a pilot can truly appreciate this airplane driver's visceral
> >> feelings!
> >> However, Do not forget anyone that has been exposed to Military
> >> and/or war time demands!
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: James F. Lane
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Jim,
> >>
> >> There I was at six thousand feet over central Iraq, two hundred
> >> eighty knots and we're dropping faster than Paris Hilton's
> panties.
> >> It's a typical September evening in the Persian Gulf;
> hotter than a
> >> rectal thermometer and I'm sweating like a priest at a Cub
> Scout meeting..
> >> But
> >> that's neither here nor there. The night is moonless over Baghdad
> >> tonight, and blacker than a Steven King novel. But it's
> 2004, folks,
> >> and I'm sporting the latest in night-combat technology. Namely,
> >> hand-me-down night vision goggles (NVGs) thrown out by the fighter
> >> boys. Additionally, my
> >> 1962 Lockheed C-130E Hercules is equipped with an obsolete, yet,
> >> semi-effective missile warning system (MWS). The MWS conveniently
> >> makes a nice soothing tone in your headset just before the missile
> >> explodes into your airplane. Who says you can't polish a
> turd? At any
> >> rate, the NVGs are illuminating Baghdad International Airport like
> >> the Las Vegas Strip during a Mike Tyson fight. These NVGs are the
> >> cat's ***. But I've digressed.
> >> The preferred method of approach tonight is the random
> shallow. This
> >> tactical maneuver allows the pilot to ingress the landing
> zone in an
> >> unpredictable manner, thus exploiting the supposedly secured
> >> perimeter of the airfield in an attempt to avoid enemy
> >> surface-to-air-missiles and small arms fire. Personally, I
> wouldn't
> >> bet my pink *** on that theory but the approach is fun as hell and
> >> that's the real reason we fly it. We get a visual on the runway at
> >> three miles out, drop down to one thousand feet above the ground,
> >> still maintaining two hundred eighty knots. Now the fun
> starts. It's
> >> pilot appreciation time as I descend the mighty Herk to
> six hundred
> >> feet and smoothly, yet very deliberately, yank into a sixty degree
> >> left bank, turning the aircraft ninety degrees offset from runway
> >> heading.
> >> As soon as we roll out of the turn, I reverse turn to the right a
> >> full two hundred seventy degrees in order to roll out aligned with
> >> the runway.
> >> Some
> >> aeronautical genius coined this maneuver the " Ninety/Two-Seventy."
> >> Chopping the power during the turn, I pull back on the
> yoke just to
> >> the point my nether regions start to sag, bleeding off energy in
> >> order to configure the pig for landing. "Flaps Fifty!,
> Landing Gear
> >> Down!, Before Landing Checklist!" I look over at the
> copilot and he's
> >> shaking like a cat ****ting on a sheet of ice. Looking
> further back
> >> at the navigator, and even through the NVGs, I can clearly see the
> >> wet spot spreading around his crotch. Finally, I glance at my
> >> steely-eyed flight engineer. His eyebrows rise in unison as a grin
> >> forms on his face. I can tell he's thinking the same thing I am.
> >> "Where do we find such fine young men?" "Flaps One
> Hundred!" I bark
> >> at the shaking cat. Now it's all aimpoint and airspeed.
> >> Aviation 101, with the exception there' are no lights, I'm
> on NVGs,
> >> it's Baghdad, and now tracers are starting to crisscross the black
> >> sky.
> >> Naturally, and not at all surprisingly, I grease the Goodyear's on
> >> brick-one of runway 33 left, bring the throttles to ground
> idle and
> >> then force the props to full reverse pitch. Tonight, the sound of
> >> freedom is my four Hamilton Standard propellers chewing
> through the
> >> thick, putrid, Baghdad air. The huge, one hundred thirty thousand
> >> pound, lumbering whisper pig comes to a lurching stop in less than
> >> two thousand feet.
> >> Let's
> >> see a Viper do that! We exit the runway to a welcoming
> committee of
> >> government issued Army grunts. It's time to download their
> beans and
> >> bullets and letters from their sweethearts, look for war
> booty, and
> >> of course, urinate on Saddam's home. Walking down the crew entry
> >> steps with my lowest-bidder, Beretta 92F, 9 millimeter strapped
> >> smartly to my side, I look around and thank God, not Allah, I'm an
> >> American and I'm on the winning team. Then I thank God I'm
> not in the
> >> Army. Knowing once again I've cheated death, I ask myself,
> "What in
> >> the hell am I doing in this mess?" Is it Duty, Honor, and Country?
> >> You bet your ***. Or could it possibly be for the glory, the swag,
> >> and not to mention, chicks dig the Air Medal. There's
> probably some
> >> truth there too. But now is not the time to derive the
> complexities
> >> of the superior, cerebral properties of the human portion of the
> >> aviator-man-machine model. It is however, time to get out of this
> >> ****-hole .. "Hey copilot clean yourself up! And how's 'bout the
> >> 'Before Starting Engines Checklist." God I love this job!
> >>
> >> Bill
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