On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 02:21:02 GMT, (Badwater
Bill) wrote:
I live here and flew today. I took off at 8 a.m. and landed at 9
a.m. The bumps were busting ass by then, the cockpit was hot and I had
"Had it."

Bill, I flew in commercial on the evening of 11 may this year.. don't
know if you remember that evening but apparantly, a pretty nasty wind
had kicked up. We were a United 737 following an RJ that center kept
telling us we were overtaking and to slow down... (listening on
United's neat earphone thing) long story short, there were some dry
mouths on the freq that evening. I can't remember exactly what the
wind was but in excess of 45 kts directly across the runway coming
from around the hotels on the strip.. we were plenty fast and used a
lot of runway stopping.. One of those times that I was glad for the
double Tequla that I'd had while on layover in LA just prior.. neat
flight and I loved the landing... not so the RJ pilots I was listening
to tho...

Wayne Sagar
All Aviation FlightLine OnLine
http://aafo.com/