Ed

Your right. The Climb Corridors were only for ADC Interceptor
Fighters. I negotiated several of them with FAA.

With an unknown, the Interceptors on 5 minute alert could be scrambled
and climb through commercial traffic altitudes without stopping to get
FAA clearance. The Air Force (radar) assumed responsibility for
clearance on scrambled aircraft and also training missions.

Been out of ADC for a long time but believe the corridors would be
eliminated when the base lost it's Air Defense Mission and Aircraft.
Couldn't justify them then to FAA.

Big John


On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:49:32 -0700, Ed Rasimus
wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:38:18 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote:


I believe military climb corridors ceased being charted in the sixties as
well.

And, even then they were almost exclusively related to active air
defense scrambles. I entered military aviation in 1964 and operated
until 1987 and never, not even once flew a tactical jet in a "military
climb corridor."

We flew published departure routes, later we flew SIDs, we flew
published approaches, we operated in special use airspace including
restricted areas and MOAs, we operated along low level routes, etc.

We went fast a lot, too.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8