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I had become many eons ago a traveling literary gnome, inquisitive about places I had and had not visited,
walking the same paths of peoples from the past, through places once grand and still grand,
photographing images that now show me the places about which I still dream . . .

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Waiting, and Waiting, and Waiting . . . Thrillingly

The video shows us holding short of taxiway G to allow a stream of T-6s to taxi back to their hangars after a morning of training.

     Runways 17/35 at the municipal airport needed renovations. For over a year, construction workers have toiled away at finishing, first by last November, then by this month, then April, and now June. And so we wait . . .  and wait . . . . In the diagram below, 17/35 runs directly north/south. The Air Force lands training jets on the other three runways depicted in the diagram. 
       In the meantime, we experience landing and taking off side by side the jets training at the base. While thrilling in many ways, one remains vigilant for the fast jets landing, taxiing, and taking off, one after the other, and for one's own taxiing across the airport. As H.P. says, do not do anything dumb, different, or dangerous when we set out to fly. 


     Always, yes, always know your NOTAMs before striking off on a cross country to the Wichita Falls Municipal Airport. Clearly, the NOTAMs say the civilian runway is closed. Remember that you must contact the tower to enter class D airspace. Student pilots are not allowed to land there. Neither do the allow touch-and-goes. And if you land at SPS, do hold before crossing each runway and repeat all instructions given by the tower. Most of the time, most pilots prefer to land at Kickapoo Downtown Airport, CWC, only seven miles to the south of SPS.


And here we return to land on 15R. The tower handles general aviation aircraft in between jet trainers. Kudos to all those guys and gals.




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