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To: grobdriver

When did that happen? And where - Kahului Airport?


60 posted on 11/21/2023 5:24:00 AM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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To: 1FreeAmerican
Would have been early-eighties, and at the airport on Maui near some exotic flower vendor.

Checking skyvector.com I see Kahului is a controlled field activated 1971, so that wouldn't have been it - part of the problem was it was an uncontrolled field where we would fly for bounce pattern work, to unload the Barber's Point controllers - get out of their hair - and the flight crew's rhythm was interrupted by traffic necessitating a go-around, ergo bringing the gear up where they had not been doing so in the pattern.

Could have been Waimea-Kohala. That's 5,200 feet which would have suited a P-3B.

I think it was VP-22, but that's been many, many moons...

64 posted on 11/21/2023 6:04:56 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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