So im cruising along at 11,000...

cmill said:
And i get a call from center.

Houston center: centurion 177 are you on top?

Me: Afirm

Houston center: Ok good, get ready because im about to make your day.

Me: Yeah, hows that?

Houston center: Traffic 7 O'clock 9000 ft, over taking you, he'll pass a mile off your left wing in about 20 seconds.

Me: That didnt really make my day.

Houston Center: OK, its a B-52.



And my day was made. :) The bad thing was, my phone was going dead so i turned it off and couldn't get it turned on quick enough to take a picture. How often do you get to take a picture of a B-52 right under your wing?
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I'm with ya. Stuff like this makes my day.

I was riding a Mad Dog jumpseat home not too long ago. We were somewhere over Missouri, and Center called traffic 1000 below, right to left, 4 miles. Type?

B-2.

Watching the Stealth go by is an odd experience- it's just so unusual looking and rare that at the time it was like standing on a Manhattan sidewalk and walking Spiderman swing by.

I mean, you know that's the context in which is happens, but it's just so odd you don't think it's real.


(For those wondering, I know Spidey's not real. Don't take that away from me. Jerks. ;))
 
dhc2tacksby said:
On a similar note, I often fly right below the break at an MCAS on the west coast.

For the lay person, it translates to F-18's 500' over head going the opposite direction.
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I have to say the MCAS in question has the weirdest course rules and pattern arrangement that I have seen at a mil field thus far.
 
I heard a B1B had launched to the north off Dyess after I had departed KABI going west and was watching as it materialized up thru a thick layer - crossing left to right under me before he did a 180 and crossed again right to left out front of me. Too bad I'm challenged photographically,...
 
If you check this link you can see the Merril Class D extend out over the water to the northwest and right over the final approach course for the main runway at Elmendorf. Standard procedure on departures is being at 2,000 feet by the shoreline if you're departing Merrill to the northwest. That puts us really close overhead some of the heavy traffic going in and out of the base. It also puts us really close to some of the fast movers doing their patterns as well. There's also the restricted area north of the base which contains a drop zone and sometimes there's some low level traffic in and out of there from the north which is more or less right through the main practice area north of town.
 
///AMG said:
I have to say the MCAS in question has the weirdest course rules and pattern arrangement that I have seen at a mil field thus far.
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Miramar? As jammed up as they are airspace-wise, it's no surprise.
 
MikeD said:
Miramar? As jammed up as they are airspace-wise, it's no surprise.
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Maybe I'm just used to pretty straighforward fields like NPA, NMM, NGP, etc. We don't do any of that silly inner/outer pattern stuff that you guys do though :p The weird part was just that they run left hand patterns on both the parallel runways, so we were bouncing on the left runway at 600 AGL, and the local Hornets wer bouncing at like 800' just outside of us and basically looping around us for the right runway. That and the IFLOLS used for FCLP's was half way down the runway we were using. Made for an interesting first comm sequence with our Paddles when he got on station:

me: "123 Goshawk ball, 2.1, Golf 6"

him: "Roger ball"........"where is the ball"

me: "one cell high"

him: "ok roger"

(he was just trying to get an eyeball cal but it was funny anyway....I should have said "it's to your left")
 
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