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...then forget it?
I was in the middle of doing a pre-approach plate briefing (initial set up) for a 14 mile DME Arc to a BC, when all the sudden one of the fixes or something that popped into my head as I was working the knobs caused me to come up with a totally funny joke.
I was in a good mood for a change, departed the hub and climbed through some pretty good icing from 4,000 to 9,000 feet to get on top for the whole two hour trip up north. Not much of feat, unless you are in something underpowered and too slow to get out of its own way, even in a descent.
But anywhoo, with weather and runway conditions taken into consideration and ground contact all the way down from 9,000 feet through the snow, my mind must have been in a happy place as I dialed things in, did the descent, approach and pre-landing checks and occasionally thought of this joke. I double tuned everything in, set the ADF/RMI for the front course as a back up, put the FAF into the gps and displayed the final approach course as a back up using the OBS feature, got every thing I could ID'd and joined the arc, then ID'd everything else before the lead in. Best dang arc and BC approach I ever flew. Did all the turn anticipation by looking at the DME, relationship of the BC set on the HSI and the GPS depiction of where the VOR was.
Got on the ground and called the chick up at the hotel to get a ride and that's when I figured out I forgot this joke I made up. That ever happen to you?
Dang, I'll have to fly that approach again and see if I can find something funny about it.
I was in the middle of doing a pre-approach plate briefing (initial set up) for a 14 mile DME Arc to a BC, when all the sudden one of the fixes or something that popped into my head as I was working the knobs caused me to come up with a totally funny joke.
I was in a good mood for a change, departed the hub and climbed through some pretty good icing from 4,000 to 9,000 feet to get on top for the whole two hour trip up north. Not much of feat, unless you are in something underpowered and too slow to get out of its own way, even in a descent.
But anywhoo, with weather and runway conditions taken into consideration and ground contact all the way down from 9,000 feet through the snow, my mind must have been in a happy place as I dialed things in, did the descent, approach and pre-landing checks and occasionally thought of this joke. I double tuned everything in, set the ADF/RMI for the front course as a back up, put the FAF into the gps and displayed the final approach course as a back up using the OBS feature, got every thing I could ID'd and joined the arc, then ID'd everything else before the lead in. Best dang arc and BC approach I ever flew. Did all the turn anticipation by looking at the DME, relationship of the BC set on the HSI and the GPS depiction of where the VOR was.
Got on the ground and called the chick up at the hotel to get a ride and that's when I figured out I forgot this joke I made up. That ever happen to you?
Dang, I'll have to fly that approach again and see if I can find something funny about it.
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