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Old 9th Oct 2020, 21:54
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Way back in the day, the USN’s Approach Safety magazine had a great story about an uncoordinated hurricane evac where every USN base in southeast decided beddown base would be NAS Memphis. Suddenly, a couple hundred planes are inbound. At one point, an F-8 declared “minimum fuel”; ATCO said, “you’re number 10 (or something large) in min fuel GCA pattern”. F-8 pilots responds with, were now flamed out, “you’re number 3 in flame-out pattern”. The whole story was hilarious if not so serious. About five or six ejections and lots of saves.
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