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Old 09-16-2011 | 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Jughead
Being an airline guy prior to going to UPT, I found it comical that the USAF taught/approved us "direct" to a fix, using DME, an RMI, and the bottom half of your pencil. In a T-38, doing 10NM/min.

I didn't explain that method very well. Probably about as well as my "directs" looked on a radar scope.

If you remember doing this, I guess you understood it, sort of.
On my DC-9 rating ride, the APD cleared me direct to a fix to enter holding. When he commented "I don't know how you did that", I replied "Neither do I."