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 Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:39 pm Post subject: NICE FLIGHT |
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HI KIDS......I had a really nice flight home last Friday. I had spent most of last week working with Morris K in Stockton. He has a huge amount of work (a good thing in this "Barack Hussein Obama" economy) and I was happy to help. When it was time to come home, it occurred to me that one of the airplane we were working on lived in the Seattle area and Washougal was on the way home. I flew home in Dave Phifer's gorgious 500B with the Merlyn 320HP turbo conversion. The airplane is just beautiful with new paint, interior, windows, avionics, everything.
A cool thing happened on the way home. The weather was clear an a million but I decided to take flight following to stay clear of the many fire TFRs. As I was handed off to Seattle Center, a bit north of K Falls, in the middle of nowhere, The controller advised me my traffic was at "nine o'clock and nine miles, a Baron converging, and my radar shows you WILL converge". Well! She gave the Baron the same info and we began looking for each other. I picked him up at about seven miles separation and called it in. The baron still did not see me. Finally the controller called us 4 miles and converging. The Baron driver called, rather tersely, "Twin Commander, what is you ground speed?" "236 KTS" I relayed. After several second of silence I asked "Baron, what is YOUR ground speed?" no answer I wonder why!!. He finally saw me and we passed close enough for me to read his N numbers. I called in the blind and just said, "imagine, we left from different places, at different times, and came this close". The controller came back and said we had passed each other "less than three tenths of a mile and less than one hundred feet apart" Pretty close!
Anyway, it was a great trip home in a great airplane! jb
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nico(at)cybersuperstore.c
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| Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:10 pm Post subject: NICE FLIGHT |
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I posted it on our facebook page, if you don't mind, JB. I just couldn't resist. Such a good story.
Thanks
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aero-Commander/144424762275884
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Subject: Commander-List: NICE FLIGHT
HI KIDS......I had a really nice flight home last Friday. I had spent most of last week working with Morris K in Stockton. He has a huge amount of work (a good thing in this "Barack Hussein Obama" economy) and I was happy to help. When it was time to come home, it occurred to me that one of the airplane we were working on lived in the Seattle area and Washougal was on the way home. I flew home in Dave Phifer's gorgious 500B with the Merlyn 320HP turbo conversion. The airplane is just beautiful with new paint, interior, windows, avionics, everything.
A cool thing happened on the way home. The weather was clear an a million but I decided to take flight following to stay clear of the many fire TFRs. As I was handed off to Seattle Center, a bit north of K Falls, in the middle of nowhere, The controller advised me my traffic was at "nine o'clock and nine miles, a Baron converging, and my radar shows you WILL converge". Well! She gave the Baron the same info and we began looking for each other. I picked him up at about seven miles separation and called it in. The baron still did not see me. Finally the controller called us 4 miles and converging. The Baron driver called, rather tersely, "Twin Commander, what is you ground speed?" "236 KTS" I relayed. After several second of silence I asked "Baron, what is YOUR ground speed?" no answer I wonder why!!. He finally saw me and we passed close enough for me to read his N numbers. I called in the blind and just said, "imagine, we left from different places, at different times, and came this close". The controller came back and said we had passed each other "less than three tenths of a mile and less than one hundred feet apart" Pretty close!
Anyway, it was a great trip home in a great airplane! jb
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