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my dad was based dca. i'm diggin up bones with these big time. we lost him 15 oct 03. i can remembern looking at, and being on, that very ramp.
I've probably got a few thousand hours on that ramp alone with both EAL and UAL!
Every issue of Airline Pilot I get it seems has the name of someone who's "gone West" that I knew during my career. Perhaps your Dad was one of them. I think getting old has something to do with it. I'll no doubt see my own name in there one of these days.