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Old 6th Jun 2021, 12:21
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esscee, it it helps....I once landed at a place called Lai Khe thinking I was at Dau Tieng which were no where close and were both airstrips in the middle of rubber plantations and the weather was really bad and our destination had no instrument procedure.

That was in the days of maps, eyeballs, and old fashioned map reading if you could see enough to properly navigate.

We were following the dirt trace left by armored columns traversing the area...and must have missed a junction or two during our journey done by looking down through the Chin bubble to maintain contact with the surface.

We cleared by the Tower (One guy with a PRC-25 back pack radio) at Dab Tieng as he confirmed he had us in sight as he cleared us to land.

Pretty good eyesight....as we were probably 20 miles away right down in the treetops.

Our call for departure after refueling....went unanswered until we tweaked to being at the wrong airstrip.

Ah....fond memories of US Army Aviation in Vietnam!
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