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Old 06-16-2012, 09:41 PM
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EatMyPropwash
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Default Please check your weather briefings

I'm really getting tired of... Two planes spark F-15 scramble during Obama visit - Yahoo! News . I know the pilot of the 2nd aircraft. He's a 3,000hr dual given instructor, and thought he had all the times for the TFR figured out. However, what he didin't know is when he landed at his first destination airport about 100 miles away on his XC, he took a 2hr lunchbreak with his student pilot, and never got another briefing besides the original 4 hours ago. So, he broke the TFR, and called up VFR 10nm west of KDPA. Just sayin' ... please check with FSS for amendments to the TFR. Last time they got the F15's out on a non-scheduled flight was last summer when a lady in Barrington, IL took off without checking ANYTHING, not even the winds, started heading towards downtown Chicago, and the F15 pulled up next to her Taylorcraft... she thought they were being cool by waving "Hi" with their pointer finger pointing down... yeah... don't be an idiot either. <stepping off soap box> .
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