A story from a Grunt Aviatior in Iraq

Glad to see you folk finally figured it out. Never flew in combat, never got
shot at, did you!!

Paul (two tours in Vietnam, flying helicopter gunships--and survived)
"Tina" wrote in message
oups.com...
I wondered about that too. Maybe he approached in downwind direction,
turned 90 degrees from the runway, then used the 270 to stay within
the limits of the airport and when he rolled out would be facing the
opposite direction, upwind, and touched down.

It might make sense if the bad guys would have expected him to fly the
approach into the wind all the way -- they'd be stationed along the
extended final centerline and his path would be downwind over the
centerline, 90 degrees to crosswind, then downwind again blending to
base blending to final, all within the boundary of the airport.

Tina




On Jul 20, 6:41 pm, "Kloudy via AviationKB.com" u33403@uwe wrote:
Kloudy wrote:
I drew this maneuver out on paper and by the gods it lloks like he'd be
flying away from the rwy.

Or did my brain come loose again?

nope.. 270 deg minus 90 = 180

Hmm....Marine a- v 8 ors

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