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07-21-2008 | 09:48 PM
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From: 319/320/321...whatever it takes.
I beleive we (former Mesaba guy) used to do the shortest flight ever. It was from Evansville, IN to Owensboro, KY. It was blocked (off - on) at 6 minutes. In a SAAB! Literally was a parabolic arc to 2500 ft, and back down to a straight in final. The whole highspeed was from DTW to Evansville to Owensboro. You could imagine trying to get that leg done even faster to get minutes more sleep. The whole leg was blocked at something like 15 minutes.
And yes, I know some of you are thinking, could the SAAB even climb to 2500 in 6 min? Remember, it was nighttime, usually with cooler air.
And yes, I know some of you are thinking, could the SAAB even climb to 2500 in 6 min? Remember, it was nighttime, usually with cooler air.
07-22-2008 | 01:00 AM
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Nobody takes the flights because they have to get to LA, they're connecting flights. Plus Oxnard/Camarillo in addition to the two NAVY bases have a pretty large population including rich folk up in the hills above Camarillo. The drive to LAX is at least an hour assuming you're going 80mph all the way.
07-22-2008 | 02:06 AM
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Stand-Up Overnight, CDO, Illegals......other terms commonly used. Last flight out, first flight in. On duty all night.
07-22-2008 | 04:59 AM
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half the flying done out of CVG for CHQ is stuff like that. we do a bunch of dayton turns toledo cmh louisville. all of them are drive able with in a few hours at the most. supposedly the flights are so much cheaper out of dayton and cmh that people in cvg will book flights from dayton through cvg to where ever and then just show up at cvg and skip the first and last leg of the trips.
07-22-2008 | 05:33 AM
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half the flying done out of CVG for CHQ is stuff like that. we do a bunch of dayton turns toledo cmh louisville. all of them are drive able with in a few hours at the most. supposedly the flights are so much cheaper out of dayton and cmh that people in cvg will book flights from dayton through cvg to where ever and then just show up at cvg and skip the first and last leg of the trips.
On the CVG short flight side, I'm not sure which is fast. CVG-DAY (both landing north) or CVG-LEX (both landing south). I've flown both but CVG-DAY was a south operation, so it actually took almost 20 mins. My personal record is CVG-LEX in 14 mins.
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