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Re: Pilot avoids collision with Venus
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2012 Apr 18, 10:25 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2012 Apr 18, 10:25 -0700
The first time I went to Europe, I took off from Newfoundland in the
middle of the night, taking the route to the Azores which is the popular
route when weather makes the shorter, northern route, iffy. About an
hour after takeoff I started seeing lights ahead of me and I immediately
thought, OMG, OMG OMG, I must be way off course, I'm heading towards a
large city, I must have gotten turned around somehow. I checked my DG,
still 145° and the compass too. The ADF needle was still five degrees
right of the tail (I had a crosswind from the right) and this heading
had kept me on the 139° radial of the Torbay VOR until I had lost its
signal. This was like something out of the Twilight Zone, it didn't make
any sense. As I got closer I could see the city spreading out almost
horizon to horizon, WHAT IS GOING ON? When I got very close I recognized
that I was looking at the the Grand Banks fishing fleet with their bright deck working lights (kinda like stadium lights.) gl --- On Wed, 4/18/12, Robert Eno <enoid@northwestel.net> wrote:
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