wrote:
"In the old days" I used to
regularly fly near an MOA and it was not at all uncommon to have a
pair of f-16s pass me (one on either side) about 200 yards out.



In another time and place, while flying along the shore of Lake
Michigan, I had a similar experience with A-10s. I noticed one creeping
up along side me on the left less than 50 yards away. Knowing that where
there is one, there's another, I looked off to the right to see his
wingman. It was a pleasure to see them. Of course the situation with the
OP F-16 encounter was different. (To MX: no wake turbulence; look up
what conditions and aircraft cause WT)