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Another TFR Story

by Mr. Flight on March 21st, 2006

Austin Meyer (the author of the fantastic X-Plane Flight Simulator) has posted a story about being intercepted by an F-18 on a recent flight.

I notice there is other traffic moving towards me on my moving map… my first thought is that it must be the “other” plane that I imagined had violated P-40. As the other plane rapidly approaches, I turn and descend hard to try to avoid a mid-air collision. It quickly becomes apparent that this guy is INTENT on getting close to me, though, and in a moment a pair of pulsing red lights is holding position off my left wing, 50 yards ahead and to the left. He holds there absolutely perfectly for a few moments and then suddenly pulls forward and cuts right across in front of me to the right. In the last little bit of sunset, I see the perfect silhouette of the F-18 against the clouds.

It is a good story with important lessons to all of us.

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