Nellis Range

[popgoesbubble]

Got a Question for you AF guys I do alot of flying South and North of the Nellis range and On our Map page on our MFD We always show an Airport inside the range called XTA. Now I was told that civilian aircraft only pull up Civilian airports and that a few years ago the Pentagon had all Military bases removed from being published on civilian charts/Nav Data bases?

Now I've flown with the X- file type pilots and they all say its groom lake but is seems kind of funny for a base thats suppose to be so secret is in the Nav data base of Civilian aircraft.

Now during the weekends I have flown within 3 miles of the range to the North going from Utah to SFO around FL350 and have seen A base and was able to make out the long runway that goes into the dry lake bed and all the hangers again this was with the mark 1 eyeball. I plugged KXTA into the fms and the heading was about in the same place so do any of you guys care to settle this for some NJA pilots.

 

[AirBadger]

The wiki page says XTA is indeed it's indentifier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

Now I was told that civilian aircraft only pull up Civilian airports and that a few years ago the Pentagon had all Military bases removed from being published on civilian charts/Nav Data bases?
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Not true. We are a civilian operation and fly into Mil bases all the time. We have a full set of military Jepp charts. Just make sure you have (1) a PPR and (2) a DOD fuel card (the boss loves that $2/gal Jet-A...ooops...JP-4 I mean. We also have renew our DOD auth every year from the Pentagon, one from each branch of the service. All military bases are in our FMS database too.

 

[TheRaven]

XTA=eXtra Terrestrial Aerodrome

 

[BiffF15]

XTA=eXtra Terrestrial Aerodrome

DUDE! Shhhhhhhhhh....

 

[instructordude]

Would you be arrested if you flew a Cessna into area 51?

 

[NewmanF16]

No, they would flash a pen light at you and you would wake up in a crackhouse in Las Vegas...

 

[TXDanno]

Would you be arrested if you flew a Cessna into area 51?

Arrested isn't even the word for it. You cannot be trained to resist the Jedi mind tricks. It just can't be done.

And whoever you rented or borrowed the Cessna from would be after your a$$, or the a$$et$ of your estate/next of kin, to recover the COD charges of all the boxes shipped to him/her containing many small pieces formerly know as 'airplane'.

 

[Scrapdog]

Would you be arrested if you flew a Cessna into area 51?

What a d**chebag.

 

[Slice121]

Would you be arrested if you flew a Cessna into area 51?

You could always try it and let us know!

 

[instructordude]

You could always try it and let us know!

Best of luck with that. I'd probably get shot down by scrappydoo.

I wonder if they have a Burger King on the base. If they do I bet burgers are radiocatively broiled!:laugh:

 

[BiffF15]

Best of luck with that. I'd probably get shot down by scrappydoo.

You are assuming someone would waste the ammo by shooting? Just a high speed flyby is all it would take.

I wonder if they have a Burger King on the base. If they do I bet burgers are radiocatively broiled!:laugh:

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[Jmoney]

Radioactively broiled....

Best of luck with that. I'd probably get shot down by scrappydoo.

I wonder if they have a Burger King on the base. If they do I bet burgers are radiocatively broiled!:laugh:

Nice...

-"radioactively broiled?" I think we now know what happened to your gray matter.

-Instructor-nuke-tard!

 

[Jmoney]

Area 51.....

Would you be arrested if you flew a Cessna into area 51?

-Trying to find the ol' family, there- Instructor-E.T.-tard?

 

[instructordude]

-Trying to find the ol' family, there- Instructor-E.T.-tard?

No my family doens't live there my brother JMoneyman. I think it would be cool to get a base tour though. I wonder if the Army/Air Force offers these during the year, kinda like a civilian fly in. I think it would be neat.