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In a previous article, "Matt Barrow" said:
"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message ... In a previous article, "Matt Barrow" said: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...17X00210&key=1 "One witness, located at the golf course indicated that he saw the airplane make a 65-degree bank" Not 60 degrees, not 70 degrees, but 65. Did he have a protractor with him? Damn good eyesight? I could have used him when I worked on a survey crew. -- Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/ ---------------- hit any user to continue ---------------- |
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Dylan Smith wrote:
On 2006-04-17, Mike Granby wrote: So I'm flying IFR down V441 in Florida today, when I hear the controller who's working me call traffic to a VFR airplane he's providing with advisories. Totally unrelated - but about 2 years ago, a friend of mine was flying home (in a club C172) when the military controller he was getting radar service off advised him of 'fast traffic' (a Tornado) that was passing by. My friend made a sarcastic comment to the controller about the fast traffic (I think the Tornado in question was flying relatively slowly). A few minutes later, the C172 started rumbling. My friend started looking around to see what could be making that sound when the planform of a Tornado appeared in the windscreen, afterburners fully open! That taught him about making sarcastic comments about fast military jets to military controllers :-) Reminds me of a story I read about the folks having their groundspeeds checked by ATC as a bragging right...until the SR-71 at altitude requested the same thing. Heh. Richard |
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Calibrated eyeball, the left one... try it, keep UR tongue in the
right side of UR mouth... Dave On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:15:49 -0700, "Matt Barrow" wrote: "Paul Tomblin" wrote in message ... In a previous article, "Matt Barrow" said: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...17X00210&key=1 "One witness, located at the golf course indicated that he saw the airplane make a 65-degree bank" Not 60 degrees, not 70 degrees, but 65. Did he have a protractor with him? Damn good eyesight? |
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....and don't tug on Superman's cape, don't spit into the wind...
There is a song there someplace.... Dave On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:08:50 -0000, Dylan Smith wrote: On 2006-04-17, Mike Granby wrote: So I'm flying IFR down V441 in Florida today, when I hear the controller who's working me call traffic to a VFR airplane he's providing with advisories. Totally unrelated - but about 2 years ago, a friend of mine was flying home (in a club C172) when the military controller he was getting radar service off advised him of 'fast traffic' (a Tornado) that was passing by. My friend made a sarcastic comment to the controller about the fast traffic (I think the Tornado in question was flying relatively slowly). A few minutes later, the C172 started rumbling. My friend started looking around to see what could be making that sound when the planform of a Tornado appeared in the windscreen, afterburners fully open! That taught him about making sarcastic comments about fast military jets to military controllers :-) |
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"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message ... In a previous article, "Matt Barrow" said: "Paul Tomblin" wrote in message ... In a previous article, "Matt Barrow" said: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...17X00210&key=1 "One witness, located at the golf course indicated that he saw the airplane make a 65-degree bank" Not 60 degrees, not 70 degrees, but 65. Did he have a protractor with him? Damn good eyesight? I could have used him when I worked on a survey crew. Kinda like the (very) old Johnny Badmouth joke, "Okay, just a c*#% hair to the right...". -- Matt --------------------- Matthew W. Barrow Site-Fill Homes, LLC. Montrose, CO |
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Marty Shapiro writes:
Richard wrote: Dylan Smith wrote: On 2006-04-17, Mike Granby wrote: So I'm flying IFR down V441 in Florida today, when I hear the controller who's working me call traffic to a VFR airplane he's providing with advisories. Totally unrelated - but about 2 years ago, a friend of mine was flying home (in a club C172) when the military controller he was getting radar service off advised him of 'fast traffic' (a Tornado) that was passing by. My friend made a sarcastic comment to the controller about the fast traffic (I think the Tornado in question was flying relatively slowly). A few minutes later, the C172 started rumbling. My friend started looking around to see what could be making that sound when the planform of a Tornado appeared in the windscreen, afterburners fully open! That taught him about making sarcastic comments about fast military jets to military controllers :-) Reminds me of a story I read about the folks having their groundspeeds checked by ATC as a bragging right...until the SR-71 at altitude requested the same thing. Heh. That's from the book "Sled Driver" by Brian Shul. He recounts a succession of requests for ground speed readouts progressing from a Cessna to a Twin Beech to an F-18 and finally the "Sled". At the other extreme, I heard a story about a flight from the Minneapolis/St. Paul area heading west IFR one night for somewhere in the Dakotas. They'd been in the air for about half an hour when the controller informed them that their groundspeed was about 10 MPH and asked their intentions. The pilot decided make the flight another day. [Wouldn't the MTI suppress the target? But let's not let facts interfere with the telling of a good story.] |
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On 2006-04-19, Everett M. Greene wrote:
At the other extreme, I heard a story about a flight from the Minneapolis/St. Paul area heading west IFR one night for somewhere in the Dakotas. [...] [Wouldn't the MTI suppress the target? But let's not let facts interfere with the telling of a good story.] Presumably not because they were not a passive radar target, but had a Mode-C squawk - he was IFR after all. (If ATC radar supressed slow targets with a Mode-C squawk, they'd have difficulty handling helicopters) -- Yes, the Reply-To email address is valid. Oolite-Linux: an Elite tribute: http://oolite-linux.berlios.de |
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Hmm.
I was "intercepted" Tuesday around Fort Wayne. I was IFR, and got a traffic alert for a VFR target indicating 500 feet higher. I got a glimpse of him as he passed behind me. Then the controller told me that he was at my 7 o'clock, turning to follow me. I looked around and saw his nose pointing right at me. He contined to chase me - in my blind spot, above my back window. Jerk. I descended, and finally caught sight of him again just ahead and over my right wing. I couldn't see his registration number. He finally turned right and away. I was 99% sure he had me in sight the whole time, but that's 1 percent short of acceptable. |
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"Brien K. Meehan" wrote He contined to chase me - in my blind spot, above my back window. Jerk. The sad part is that he probably didn't see a thing wrong with what he was doing. After all, he was just seeing whose plane was faster, right? ;-( -- Jim in NC |
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