pilot141
Professional Cynic
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- Nov 26, 2001
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Answer to the OP
To (finally) answer the OP, the Tweets you saw and heard at CLL were Laughlin jets. Rasta is a DLF X-C call-sign, but to make sure check out the tails of the jets on the ramp:
XL=Laughlin
RA=Randolph
CB=Columbus
VN=Vance
EN=Sheppard (I think - I usually can't see the tails because the IPs are blocking it as they talk with their hands!)
Freebirds is THE place in CLL. I had a policy that any student that ate an entire Super Monster burrito in one sitting could not only sleep on the way home (it's a T-1), he also got an automatic E for the ride. I had many attempts and many miserable, pale students but no winners. The closest was a kid who actually got down to scooping out the filling of the burrito with a spoon at the bottom of his Super Monster...only to lean over and puke out most of it onto the floor of Freebirds during lunchtime. Not a good way for a single Lt to pick up any chicks.....
The best "free lunch" scam I saw was some of our guys who got sent to pick up a T-1 at CWF (Chennault - the $1 lunch miracle). They got squired into CWF by another T-1 and strolled into the FBO to order thier $1 po-boys. They were informed that the $1 lunch was only for people who bought gas, and since the airplane they were flying back had not bought gas, lunch was $5 each.
In record time they returned with the fuel card to the suspect T-1, and simply said "Fill 'er up, and I'll take the $1 special".
Pay your taxes on time, because otherwise this buffoonery could not take place!
To (finally) answer the OP, the Tweets you saw and heard at CLL were Laughlin jets. Rasta is a DLF X-C call-sign, but to make sure check out the tails of the jets on the ramp:
XL=Laughlin
RA=Randolph
CB=Columbus
VN=Vance
EN=Sheppard (I think - I usually can't see the tails because the IPs are blocking it as they talk with their hands!)
Freebirds is THE place in CLL. I had a policy that any student that ate an entire Super Monster burrito in one sitting could not only sleep on the way home (it's a T-1), he also got an automatic E for the ride. I had many attempts and many miserable, pale students but no winners. The closest was a kid who actually got down to scooping out the filling of the burrito with a spoon at the bottom of his Super Monster...only to lean over and puke out most of it onto the floor of Freebirds during lunchtime. Not a good way for a single Lt to pick up any chicks.....
The best "free lunch" scam I saw was some of our guys who got sent to pick up a T-1 at CWF (Chennault - the $1 lunch miracle). They got squired into CWF by another T-1 and strolled into the FBO to order thier $1 po-boys. They were informed that the $1 lunch was only for people who bought gas, and since the airplane they were flying back had not bought gas, lunch was $5 each.
In record time they returned with the fuel card to the suspect T-1, and simply said "Fill 'er up, and I'll take the $1 special".
Pay your taxes on time, because otherwise this buffoonery could not take place!
I go (when runway length allows) into civilian fields for the " quality training" my student wouldn't get at a mil field. 
