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![]() "Jeff Franks" wrote in message ... Hrmmmmm. could your pilot become a submariner? Can someone explain to me why you would need to "sneak across" the Lake Superior anyhow? You could fly across the thing at 12,000 feet squawking 7700 and probably not be excessively interfered with. |
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![]() "db" wrote in message ink.net... I have been intercepted (in the middle of the country, not at the edges) at least twice. This happened more than 10 years ago. Once was by a pair of F15's that I spotted climbing toward me. They got to my altitude, turned parallel in the opposite direction, did a 180 turn then a roll as they came by. I was flying a quite small plane and I would bet money that this was a radar intercept. They would have Sh!t themselves if you had performed a split S. |
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![]() Nomen Nescio wrote: A quick change of N numbers wouldn't hurt, either. Back around 1970, there was a smuggler who had two aircraft, one legit and the other stolen. He had the stolen one painted to match the legitimate one. He used to make drug runs in the stolen one while keeping the legit plane conspicuously and legally busy several States away. Worked just fine until the landing gear collapsed at TYS on a smuggling run one day. George Patterson Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is "Hummmmm... That's interesting...." |
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Nomen Nescio wrote:
Gee, you show an address as is that your real e-mail or are you too cowardly to post your real address. If you're so brave, why don't you post your home address, too. Um...are you kidding? You really don't see the real address in there? Is this some variation of "color blind", perhaps? - Andrew |
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![]() "Nomen Nescio" ] wrote in message ... From: "Henry Kisor" The long and short of the answers I have received is "Maybe, but not likely." I'll have my evasive pilot (not a terrorist but a good guy on a mercy mission of sorts) file a flight plan, cross the lake at a reasonable altitude, have "engine trouble" and land well short of his posted point of arrival to offload his cargo before the sheriff arrives. Your pilot could also file an inaccurate flight plan, or no flight plan, land at an uncontrolled but active airfield, dump his cargo, and immediately takeoff and blend in with other traffic to disappear and go flying off into the sunset. A quick change of N numbers wouldn't hurt, either. I fly in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I fly over Lake Superior all the time. There are a zillion airports within 40 miles of the lakeshore. Lots of them have no personel at all at any time (just grass strips). There are (as far as I know) only two control towers in the whole area (Marquette MI and Duluth, MN). There's just not much FAA up here. There is a radar at Sawyer (Marquette) but it does not have line-of-sight to the lake shore, and the radar doesn't even show in the airport control tower. It reports to Minneapolis center. I assume there is a radar at Duluth. I believe those are the only two radars on the Lake Superior shore. Lake Superior is pretty narrow near Sault St. Marie, and there are no control towers (and I think no radars) anywhere near there. BTW, every book should have a part set in Mackinaw Island. It's just a neat place, so work that into the story. It has neither control tower nor radar, but does have a park service official. |
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In article , Charles Talleyrand
wrote: I believe those are the only two radars on the Lake Superior shore. BTW, every book should have a part set in Mackinaw Island. It's just a neat place,so work that into the story. It has neither control tower nor radar, but does have a park service official. And, as in the Caribbean... take lots of cash! |
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AWACS frequently operates with a doppler filter set to 60 or so.
Anything slower is thrown out by the computer. Don't have to watch all the cars that way. -- Kevin McCue KRYN '47 Luscombe 8E Rans S-17 (for sale) -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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Kevin McCue wrote:
AWACS frequently operates with a doppler filter set to 60 or so. Anything slower is thrown out by the computer. Don't have to watch all the cars that way. Oh, boy. Slow-flighting my way at 20'...*that* would be interesting. - Andrew |
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"Nomen Nescio" ] wrote in message
... You seem to be getting a little obsessed with me, Pete. Don't you have anything better to do. Huh? I've barely bothered to even read your posts, never mind respond to them. Hardly an obsession. Gee, you show an address as is that your real e-mail or are you too cowardly to post your real address. If you're so brave, why don't you post your home address, too. My home address is 12900 NE 78th Place, Kirkland, WA. Feel free to send whatever junk mail to that address you like. We have recycling. As for the email address, anyone with a half-ounce of intelligence can easily convert the address you've quoted to a genuine address usable for sending me email. As I said, it is trivial to obscure personal information enough to avoid spammers, without hiding behind an anonymous reposter. Get on with your life, Pete. I ain't going away. Never thought you would. So what? This will be my last response to you on this subject, so think whatever you want. You've made it abundantly clear in a half dozen other posts that you don't like remailers or me. I challenge you to quote 6 posts in which I have "made it abundantly clear" that I don't like remailers, or that I don't like you. As usual, your anonymity appears to be giving you the courage to post whatever lies you feel like. Pete |
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On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:33:32 -0600, Henry Kisor wrote:
Am I wrong that one needs to file a flight plan to enter the US from Canada these post-9/11 days? Henry, your pilot is doing some not so legal things anyhow, why would he obey the law if he's breaking the law? What's one more little broken law between friends? If you want a real provable engine problem, have them obtain a lead fouled spark plug, land and replace the good one with the bad one. Instant engine problem and since plugs are changed all the time anyhow, it's not going to be unusual to find the tool marks on it, he could even make a log entry stating he cleaned the plugs to explain the markings... |
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