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Here's where I'll post my stuff. Here's a pic of me on final to Boeing Field runway 13, with the Great Mt Rainier looming.


 
First leg done. A nice trip to Orcas Island. Drove past my old work place at NAS Whidbey Island on the way.

 
Off to Bowerman. Should be a pretty flight, over the Olympic Mountains and all. As long as I don't bump into one along the way, that is.
 
Restricted Airspace?

PRB said:
First leg done. A nice trip to Orcas Island. Drove past my old work place at NAS Whidbey Island on the way.
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Heya Paul,

I wasn't sure about flying right over the top of NAS Whidbey Island (where I was born, by the way - a Navy brat to be sure!). I took a detour to OS9 to clear the airspace.

Wouldn't they scramble something if you flew low and slow right over the base? :)

JKH
 
Rgr that Howellerman. Actually, there is a civilian flying club at NAS Whidbey, and in any case as long as you contact the tower when you enter their FAA defined airspace, and do what they tell you, you'll be ok. Of course you'll need to know where "Sunset Beach", "Coronet Bay", and and "Monkey Hill" are, which are points where civilian planes use to enter and leave the Whidbey area. My Cessna 310 was just so fast they never got a chance to fire up one of their EP-3s to chase me down! :icon_lol:
 
Well, I've about worn out my welcome with Lana, and it's about time I head on down the road. The replacement parts came in for the refrigerator in the back, so I'm ready to go!


 
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Did some VOR navigation training. FROM/TO, why is that still so confusing?
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Because for some folk... they forget the caveat of having the selected course (what's aligned with the course index) in relative agreement (±90°)with aircraft heading.

Spinning the OBS determines the selected course and whether that course takes the aircraft TO/FROM the station. It (essentially) gives no information if the aircraft is actually heading TO/FROM the station.

That and "reverse sensing"... :p:
 
Rgr that, Rob. It always makes perfect sense when I read about it. Then when I'm in the plane, all those reciprocals make it confusing again!

Ok, I'm off to S27. That's in Montana. Do you think they will let me live in Montana? I want to live in Montana, and raise rabbits...
 
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Do you think they will let me live in Montana? I want to live in Montana, and raise rabbits...
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About oh... sometime last summer, my son (then 17) came to me and said, "Dad... I want to be a Nuc. Eng. Officer on a sub." I looked him square in the eye and said, "What? Are you stupid???"

And then I told him that I couldn't be more proud if he did something like that... and I told him - he gets his commission, I'll be the first to salute him.

Best chow I had in the service was at the sub base @ Pearl.


 
Great Ozzie said:
About oh... sometime last summer, my son (then 17) came to me and said, "Dad... I want to be a Nuc. Eng. Officer on a sub." I looked him square in the eye and said, "What? Are you stupid???"

And then I told him that I couldn't be more proud if he did something like that... and I told him - he gets his commission, I'll be the first to salute him.

Best chow I had in the service was at the sub base @ Pearl.
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Yep, you have to have your "you know what" together to get into the nuclear power program. Hats off to all who sail in those subs. Never got to experience the chow on one, but the Chief's Mess on a carrier isn't too bad either... :)

Made it to S27 with most of the big pieces still attached.

Flight Time: 00:45:39
Race Time: 00:45:39
Fuel Consumed: 132 LBS

http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=THSCI89t6D15GkVORNFdHbmD90
 
Never sailed on a sub, but I worked on plenty of 'em. Best chow I ever had in the Navy was after I made Chief on a sub tender. The cook was a sub sailor doing a surface tour and he fed us good.
 
Yep, you have to have your "you know what" together to get into the nuclear power program. Hats off to all who sail in those subs
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There is a guy at work who was a electronic tech on a missile sub. Doesnt talk about it much, only once to me. I have known him for over ten years, and if you would meet him, you would say he is big and dumb. How do you figure that?
 
robert41 said:
There is a guy at work who was a electronic tech on a missile sub. Doesnt talk about it much, only once to me. I have known him for over ten years, and if you would meet him, you would say he is big and dumb. How do you figure that?
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I would figure that it was another confirmation that first impressions are very often wrong... :)

Off to Gallatin (KBZN)
 
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