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JetCamVideo: A Dreary Day In Key West

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Bone

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Oh sure, it's all fun and games until somebody gets sunburned. But if it's a dreary day, you can put away the sunblock.

Key West NAS is on the left, as we make our base leg to runway 27 @ KEYW. And, after we land, feast your eyes on those two US Army Chinooks that are right next to the taxiway with rotors spinning. If you listen closely, you can hear their call sign: "Army 77748 alpha alpha"...the US Army has some weird call signs!

Oh, and don't laugh at my landing, please! The KEYW runway is really short, and our approach speed was 152 KIAS. We go for firm landings there right on the number one brick, because as you will see, it takes just about all of the runway to stop.

 
Captain, I enjoy these videos and hope they continue. But seeing as I would have been the guy taking off in the bi-plane, there are a lot of things about jets that leave me wondering. Maybe I'll spring for a 757 next time Captain Sim has one of their $9.99 sales?

Looked up Key West. Guess 4800 feet is a little shorter than the usual?

Hoping you have many more safe flights!
 
NoNewMessages said:
Captain, I enjoy these videos and hope they continue. But seeing as I would have been the guy taking off in the bi-plane, there are a lot of things about jets that leave me wondering. Maybe I'll spring for a 757 next time Captain Sim has one of their $9.99 sales?

Looked up Key West. Guess 4800 feet is a little shorter than the usual?

Hoping you have many more safe flights!
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Thanks. And yes it's very short for a jet, except maybe a Citation
 
dominique said:
No, no , the question there is "how you guys could keep on taxiing on a straight line when both looking at the Chinooks" :icon_lol: ! Inertia :) ?

Thanks again these clips are wonderful !
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Haha, inertia does work that way at a slow speed, but I wasn't just staring at the Chinook even though it looks that way. My eyes were crosschecking forward. Just like In the flying part it looks like I'm only looking out the window, but my eyes are crosschecking the instruments. Crosschecking is a constant act. Inside outside inside outside....
 
Bone, after watching your vid I decided to launch out of NAS Key West and fly around in A.F. Scrub's Curtiss Hawk 75. I made a very bouncy landing at Key West International. You could have laughed at it, I sure did. :d
Interesting little get-together with the CH-47's. Couple rental trucks, other non-military vehicles, civilian airport, less than 100 miles from Cuba. Hmm... wonder what was goin' on. OK, don't wanna know.
 
Ah, for a dog leg appraoch (standard?) the landing wasn't bad at all. I've done worse in a CRJ (in FSX). :d
 
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