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leave it up or take it down
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Yesterday evening I heard alot of traffic out of FL, and many were talking about taking their higher profile antennas down. Others were leaving them up. They all have been coming in best in the evenings. Hope to hear many on this evening! That would at least mean they are well enough to shoot skip. That would be a good thing. I wish you all the best over there.
the eye is coming ashore at port charlote which is 90 miles due south of me, wind is starting to get very gusty and rain is heavy, we got it no problem,,,
My son lives in Orlando. He says they've had wind and rain but nothing too bad.
well it's 5.06 am here is poinciana which is part of Kissimmee closer to haine city it was mostly wind and rain squalls never lost power then again our power wires are underground but after all, thank god for minute damage my street is flooded
It's not that scary from the inside looking out and not nearly as rough as you might think. Roughest was when shaking the hung up landing gear out of the wheel wells. Scariest was crabbing in on landing, with two engines out on one side with near 30kt crosswind gusts. >2700 flt hrs over my years, 53rd WRS.
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There was one other scary occasion. History was nearly written; the first WC-130 lost in a storm.
When surface winds cannot be estimated at normal flight level due to cloud coverage below it was allowable to descend to as low as 700'MSL.
At such low levels my job was more or less limited to holding a coffee cup, scanning out the windows while standing next to flight engineer, on the flight deck; maybe with a foot up on the center console. I was seeing what appeared to be increasing wave heights and brought it to the crews attention, over intercom. Some quick looks and all returned to their normal modes. A few moments later I tapped the engineer and hollered in his ear, the waves are getting bigger! He looked out the windows then around the pilot's shoulder and booted the pilot's arm off the arm-rest while shouting over the IC, "take us up, take us up"!
It was 1st storm mission, in the left seat, for recently promoted Captain who maintained pressure altimeter flight instead of switching to radar altimeter. You can guess the moral of the story; it's opposite of compliance with flight regulations.
The pilot was politically connected, thus history was never recorded; though he was transferred shortly thereafter .
There was another occasion, unauthorized flight into Cuban Airspace; but, that's for another time.
When surface winds cannot be estimated at normal flight level due to cloud coverage below it was allowable to descend to as low as 700'MSL.
At such low levels my job was more or less limited to holding a coffee cup, scanning out the windows while standing next to flight engineer, on the flight deck; maybe with a foot up on the center console. I was seeing what appeared to be increasing wave heights and brought it to the crews attention, over intercom. Some quick looks and all returned to their normal modes. A few moments later I tapped the engineer and hollered in his ear, the waves are getting bigger! He looked out the windows then around the pilot's shoulder and booted the pilot's arm off the arm-rest while shouting over the IC, "take us up, take us up"!
It was 1st storm mission, in the left seat, for recently promoted Captain who maintained pressure altimeter flight instead of switching to radar altimeter. You can guess the moral of the story; it's opposite of compliance with flight regulations.
The pilot was politically connected, thus history was never recorded; though he was transferred shortly thereafter .
There was another occasion, unauthorized flight into Cuban Airspace; but, that's for another time.
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