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Unfair both to me and the FISO! First, the FISO doesn't have to look out of the window (though he was in a tower, actually). And I knew about the crosswind joiner, as he told me about him.
But, the crosswind joiner was nowhere near where he should have been: I was only in a PA28-181 and we were 3-up so we weren't rocketing skywards. I would say we were at least 1 mile upwind of the numbers when we 'encountered' each other.
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