I had a totally different kind of experience at BED that is fun to
talk about. We had an ex Navy pilot -- flew F14's -- in the left seat
of the Mooney. He hand flew the ILS on a bumpy day under the hood,
needles rock solid in the middle, all the while carrying on a
conversation with us about an unrelated technical matter that would
have required a normal person's full attention.

He was probably the best pilot, in terms of airplane handling ability,
I had even witnessed. He did confess the low stall speeds in the
Mooney took some getting used to.

Other than very fit, handsome, funny, skilled and smart he was just
like most other pilots I knew.

I wonder what it would take to distract him on final: Incoming?


On May 29, 8:27 am, "Steve Foley" wrote:
"Tina" wrote in message

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My personal favorite, and this was the tower at KBED, is we were
flying the ILS into 11 at KBED, at night, ceiling was said to be 300
feet or so, and half way in from the OM tower asked for the landing
light. Can you think of a better way to ruin night vision than
lighting up the inside of a cloud?

"Hanscom Tower, we'll wait until we break out."

Probably the same Hanscom controller that told someone to position and hold
while I was on short final. What really sucked was that the sun was shining
through the prop on final. I really didn't enjoy going through that strobe
effect again.