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![]() For security reasons, Air Force One filed a flight plan identifying itself as a a Gulfstream 5, a much smaller airplane. Not only is this illegal - period - it is also unsafe to that aircraft and others sharing the sky. If a developing situation required the air controller to order the "Gulfstream 5" to make radical flight manuevers to avoid someone else, the controller would be wrongly assuming that the a/c could react as a small, agile GS 5 and not a frickin Jumbo Jet. And what about separation considerations, wingtip vortexes, jet wash, and a host of other reasons why claiming to be a different aircraft is just plain ignorant? When you are in a light a/c and a "heavy" is in nearby, the controller warns you of the potential hazard. But here, the President's staff decided that such safeties were unnecessary and could be waived, because they said so. How many other laws does does the administration consider "Optional"? Gordon ====(A+C==== USN SAR Aircrew "Got anything on your radar, SENSO?" "Nothing but my forehead, sir." |
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