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2006
Dark Passages
California’s Most Perilous Air Routes
COLUMNS
Commander’s Comments 11
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Dark Passages
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weather up north tells pilots to
just stay put. Here they’ll start out
with visibility for ten miles and
end up in trouble.”
“The higher mountains are in
the central and northern parts of
the state,” reckons Maj. Jim
Porter, California Wing Vice
Commander and experienced
mission pilot. “Pilots up north get
socked in. They know they can’t
get 12,000 feet to cross the moun-
tains at 10,000. Down south you
can slide over 6,000 foot moun-
tains at 8,000.”
Dark Passages dangerous areas in nation,” says And that’s the deadly tempta-
Capt. Bob Keilholtz, California tion, pilots say. Lt. Col. Ron
Continued . . . Wing Director of Emergency Butts, a “Vietnam Black World”
weather moving west to east Services, who’s run countless jet-jock who now flies low and
backs up in the pass, kind of like a missing-aircraft missions as an slow as the Deputy Director of
funnel between San Gorgonio and Incident Commander. “Statisti- Operations for California Wing,
San Jacinto mountains, and you cally, there are a significant says Banning and Gorman Pass
see this curtain.” amount of accidents from planes “tend to attract airplanes like a
Two weeks later, Hofheinz icing up going over the Sierras.” magnet.” He, too, subscribes to
and Tullo retraced the path of the the risk-taking mindset theory.
fatal flight. “There was no terrain “‘I think I can make it.’
in front of them. Did they enter a That’s the opening line of the
stall spin?” Hofheinz speculates. disaster,” says Butts with weary
“They might have had cata- solemnity, just a few days after
strophic engine failure. Or had the crash that killed Voorhis and
they gotten so disoriented by the O’Neill. “I don’t understand
weather, they yanked the yoke pilots. They fly in low visibility
around in a sharp turn and But when they depart San and pick their way through the
induced an accelerated spin? We Diego, home of some the world’s clouds—VFR pilots flying in IFR
may never know.” best weather, everything seems conditions: That’s the report on
Morbid curiosity had nothing fine, Keilholtz figures, attributing 90 percent of accidents.”
to do with their flight reenact- the accidents as much to psychol- And on two recent ones, says
ment. Serious mission pilots both, ogy as topography. “Around San Maj. Chuck Frank, Wing Director
Hofheinz and Tullo had flown Diego, even suspecting bad of Counterdrug Operations and a
many a search-and-rescue in that weather, people will fly,” SAR mission pilot who flies out
area, and flying with Maj. Bruce Keilholtz says. “All the extreme Continued . . .
Marble last October, earned a
Distress Find for spotting a
Lancair crashed six miles north of
Warner Springs east-southeast of
Mount Palomar, a spoke off the
Julian VOR, a notorious radial.
“A San Diego-area news-
paper reported a few years ago
that Julian VOR, the main route
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Dark Passages OK, We Know Where They Crash.
Continued . . . Now Where Do We Put Our Planes?
of San Jose Senior Squadron 80. However predictable, the prevalence of crashes in sparsely popu-
“The pilots in each case were lated and remote areas of the state poses a challenge to search-and-
trying to get somewhere by skud- rescue efforts there, says Maj. Jim Porter, California Wing’s Deputy
running,” trying to find openings Commander, especially with respect to the deployment of CAP
in dense cloud cover to avoid IFR resources. “I think we’re in pretty good shape by situating the aircraft
conditions, Frank figures. “They both around the pilot base and somewhat geographically,” he says, “to
made poor judgment calls.” make sure we have aircrafts and crews in reasonable striking distance to
By FAA definition, Frank different parts of the state.”
says, it is all “mountainous ter- Porter acknowledges that even though pilot concentration drives
rain” in the high Sierras. And haz- deployment, the Wing benefits from lucky coincidence. “The greater
ards can include the sort of stulti- concentration of both mission pilots and mission activity is in southern
fying, disorienting darkness California,” he says. “For obvious reasons (more pilots means more
Florida pilots report flying over accidents) they mirror each other.”
the Everglades. Frank recalls a Still aircraft deployment can only be cheated so much to align with
crash on a mountain near historical precedence of fatal crashes, Porter says. “You need a unit at an
Stonyford when a plane was fly- airport that is capable of having an airplane, and pilots to fly it. That
ing from Chico to Ukiah “during leaves holes.”
moonless night flight operations,” These days, one hole bottoms out at Bishop. “There is no Civil Air
as the NTSB report put it. A Piper Patrol in Bishop anymore, so the center part of the Owens Valley is
Aerostar 601P pilot was descend- without coverage,” Porter says. CAP is also “pretty thin” far north,
ing from 6,700 feet and requested along the Oregon border to Lassen, but so is air traffic. The vast but by
flight following and a vector to no means un-traveled territory north of Central Valley Group 6, south of
the airport. Air Route Traffic NorCal Group 5, and west of Central Coast Group 4, remains worri-
Control Center recommended a some. And Palm Springs Composite Squadron 11, as the single unit
heading. “He thought he had a handling the eastern part of San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial
GPS direct situation,” Frank sur- counties, “leaves that whole part of the state uncovered,” Porter admits.
mises. “He programmed the “There are incidents in those areas. We don’t have the personnel to
direction and sat back, fat dumb support units there.”
and happy.” No low-altitude alert “All we can do,” Porter concludes, “is launch from a distance.”
was issued, even though the
maximum elevation in the area is
7,400 feet. The pilot was flying in
VFR conditions, yet completely
blind. He crashed at 6,700 feet,
missing the clearing of the crest
by 50.
Butts, Keilholtz, and Lt. Col.
Steve Asche, California Wing
Director of Operations, separately
recite a chilling litany of Califor-
nia crash sites. Banning Pass on
route to Phoenix. The splatter sur-
rounding Big Bear. Far south,
Keilholtz sketches a Pauma Val-
ley Triangle: Escondido to the
south and Pauma Valley to the
east, with the vertex stretching up
6,126 feet to the peak of Mount A CAPflight sights its ground team
Continued . . .
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The Tejon Pass via satellite
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pioneer legend. “Above Indepen-
dence, it is the lowest pass and the
most direct route over the Sier-
ras,” explains Keilholtz. “But it’s
a false pass.” Or, rather, it pre-
sents the illusion of a clear open-
ing that’s a literal dead end near a
suspiciously small pass that is in
fact the way through. The right
pass looks wrong; the wrong pass
looks right. The confusion is
often tragic.
Think you’re out of the woods
Dark Passages up and down drafts. Even in clear when flying around cities? Tough
Continued . . . weather you can hit a downdraft terrain meets tight traffic in areas
and can’t pull out. The plane just surrounding San Francisco and
Palomar. Moving north, the Tejon drops.” Pilots increase power and Los Angeles international air-
Pass and Gorman Pass, from the pitch to no avail. They run out of ports, for example. And the prob-
L.A. basin to the chronically airspeed, then altitude, end up lem of Class Bravo negotiation
foggy Grapevine and on to the stalling, and spiral to earth. relates as much to the air traffic
central Valley. The Cajon Pass, “Some of these pilots have a false itself as pilots’ attempts to avoid
often mistaken by pilots for a sense that a downdraft is tempo- it. “Class B airspace tends to con-
route farther west into Palmdale rary,” Asche theorizes. “They centrate general aviation traffic at
and Agua Dulce, slaps pilots with don’t want to climb to 7,000 or the [altitude] limits and edges,”
unexpected winds. Fresno to the 8,000 feet, so they have no alti- explains Capt. John Joyce, a pilot
Owens Valley over Kings Can- tude to work with. It can happen with Clover Field Composite
yon. Asche warns of a Tehachapi in seconds.” He would know—it Squadron 51, Santa Monica, who
Triangle from Frazier Park and happened to him: The draft flew for United Airlines for more
the Gorman Pass in the south- smacked the aircraft from 7,500 to than 35 years. “That’s a mid-air
west, Lake Isabella to the north, 2,000 feet in a matter of seconds. collision hazard.” The caution
and southwest to Mojave, with The Kearsarge Pass—just particularly applies to pilots prac-
lonely Highway 58 cutting north of the juncture of the Inyo, ticing radial intercepts and hold
through. Tulare and Fresno county lines, out of Seal Beach and Paradise,
“Back in the ’60s and ’70s I northeast of the Great Western he warns.
performed three to four searches a Divide—is the stuff of pilot- Continued on page 13 . . .
year out of Bakersfield alone,”
says Asche, a 30-year veteran
pilot. “I have documented around
80 crashes in this area alone, and
I’m only counting those that are
documented.” (And if a Stealth
F-117A Nighthawk was to have
crashed there on maneuvers—and
he’s not saying one did, mind
you—there’s a limited public
paper trail, and typically no CAP
search.)
Deadly wind shears and
storms have been the culprit,
Asche figures, some 80 percent of
the time. “The triangle is known
for extreme turbulence and strong
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Summer Comments
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Califo
Wing a
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As the Weather
By Colonel Virginia Nelson
Turns, Don’t Just
Burn: Learn
I am writing this column on security duties than typical
possibly the coldest weekend of search-and-rescue. For ex-
the winter. There is a storm raging ample, we expect to send off
outside, the temperature is near many planes to photograph tar-
freezing, and I am more than gets of interest.
ready for warm weather. You For twelve days in June (17-
should be receiving this Eagle 28), California Wing will host a
Call in late spring, so let’s think National Sailplane Flight Acad-
about summer. There’s a lot to emy at Los Alamitos. Twenty
look forward to. cadets are scheduled to attend for
The first summer activity will both ground school and flight
be an important one. The Air training. Cadets will have the
Force is scheduled to monitor our opportunity to experience both
Search-and-Rescue Exercise on aero- and winch tows. Col. Ed
June 2-4. During odd-numbered Lewis will be the director. Many
years the Air Force evaluates our tow pilots, CFIGs and cadet pro- Col. Virginia Nelson
performance during the SAREX. gram officers will work together Commander, California Wing
They watch and grade what we to make this a meaningful training
do. During even-numbered years activity for the cadets. Engineer Technologies Academy;
the SAREX is designed as a train- The Wing is also hosting the Aircraft Manufacturing &
ing vehicle for our members. The foreign cadets from Hong Kong, Maintenance Academy at the
Air Force monitors how we do Canada and the United Kingdom Cessna factory; Honor Guard
and offers helpful suggestions. as part of the International Air Academy; IACE; and both power
This year the main base will be Cadet Exchange this summer. and sailplane flight academies.
Cable Airport in Upland. There Captain Alan McGavin, the We also have members attending
will be subordinate bases in the project officer, is busy planning the Pacific Region GSAR School
central and north. The goal is to educational and fun activities. at Fort Lewis, Wash.
train, upgrade and renew Emer- Local cadets will be invited to All Wing cadets are invited to
gency Services specialty ratings. meet and mix with our visitors. at t e n d t h e C A W G s u m m e r
To that end, we will assign quali- Forty-six of our Wing’s cadets Encampment, August 5-12 at
fied ES personnel in all positions and about a dozen senior mem- Camp San Luis Obispo. The
available to mentor members bers applied for National Special encampment commander will be
seeking new ratings. This is a Activities over the summer. Sev- Lt. Col. Christine Lee and the
great opportunity for us to train eral cadets will attend Cadet CTG commander is Cadet Lt.
together - pilots, communicators, Officer School at Maxwell AFB. Col. Jeff Beuntgen. This rigorous
safety officers, planning section Blue Beret, held in conjunction but rewarding activity includes
chiefs, IC trainees, etc. The simu- with AOPA Oshkosh, will boast flying in a helicopter, shooting an
lated-emergency scenario - of CAWG cadets and seniors this M16 rifle, competing on an
though it is subject to change - year. CAWG members are also obstacle course as well as in drill
should be oriented more toward slated to attend: Air Force Space and volleyball tournaments.
disaster relief and homeland Command at Peterson AFB; the Continued . . .
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Suddenly, This Summer Dark Passages
Continued . . . Continued from page 9 . . .
Cadets will be instructed on mander, Maj. Gen. Pineda, has Joyce vividly recalls the 1986
everything from aerospace to lowered the cost this year to $95, mid-air collision between an
shoe-shining and barracks main- including the Saturday banquet. Aeromexico DC-9 on arrival
tenance. An advanced training Members may also attend and approach at LAX and a Piper
squadron accommodates cadets observe the business portion only, PA-28 that had departed Torrance
attending encampment for a held on Thursday, when CAP will on a VFR flight to Big Bear. The
second time. Senior members are elect a new national vice com- NTSB reports that the DC-9 pilot
encouraged to apply to help at mander. On Friday, seminars fol- had been instructed to descend
HQ, drive vans, and serve as low a general assembly. Last year from 7,000 to 6,000 feet.
tactical officers. The event ends over 60 different seminars were The grim-reaping, fictional
with a public graduation parade offered. Saturday begins with an Final Destiny demon took over
scheduled for 1000 hours on awards assembly, moves to semi- from here, at least as the investi-
Saturday, August 12. nars, and concludes with the gators and Joyce explain it. The
Senior members also have evening banquet. Piper pilot wasn’t communicating
training opportunities ahead, If you have not been to a with the tower. LAX didn’t have
north and south. A Check Pilot national conference I urge you to an automatic conflict-alert sys-
School and FIRC is scheduled for attend, as this is your chance to tem. The Piper’s analog-beacon
June 10-11 in Sacramento. A meet CAP’s leaders and ask ques- response from the transponder
Squadron Leadership School tions. Every year I come away wasn’t configured for display.
(SLS) is slated for July 22-23 at better informed, encouraged “An atmospheric inversion,”
Cal State Dominguez Hills. This about CAP’s vital role, and according to the NTSB report,
summer, we are hoping to offer a refreshed from socializing with prevented the “primary target”
Training Leaders of Cadets other CAP members. CAP has from being displayed to the air-
(TLC) class at the SLS. This is a some of the very best people. I traffic controllers. “He inter-
new class developed by CAP’s admire what is accomplished cepted the tiniest corner of what
National Headquarters to train when we all work together. was then called a TCA [Terminal
senior members who want to As if that weren’t enough, Control Area],” Joyce recalls.
learn about working with cadets. there’s more. Group 6 is organiz- “The pilot was from Oregon. He
The premier training activity ing a trip to Catalina. First Aid may not have had the correct chart.
for senior members is the classes will be offered. Squadrons He may have misinterpreted
National Staff College, held this will hold bivouacs, and Groups what freeway he was over.”
year at Maxwell AFB. The school will hold SAREXs. There will be In the end, at the moment of
is limited to majors and above and air shows throughout California. his demise, the pilot may have
deals with upper-level manage- Expect a Basic Cadet School, sev- been looking down.
ment theory. Students get a eral Level 1 classes, and commu- Our sincerest gratitude to
chance to interact with our CAP nications courses. And all this Dale Masters and Great Western
senior leadership, NHQ staff, and opportunity happens against the Soaring School in Llano, Sam
some Air University faculty. The backdrop of CAP’s ongoing Seneviratne and Sequoia Devel-
director this year is Lt. Col. Peggy emergency services, from our opment, and 1st Lt. Shane
Myrick. This school provides a extraordinary work at Imperial to Terpstra for the photography
great opportunity to learn how routine ELT missions. used in this article.
CAP works at the national level, I don’t think anyone can com-
improve one’s leadership skills plain about having nothing to do
and meet CAP members from this summer. The problem is www.cawg.cap.gov, for the latest
every region. Besides that, it’s fun. rather having so much to choose information. It is frequently
All CAP members are invited from. All members should have a updated and squadrons are
to attend the summer National chance to participate in areas that encouraged to add events. Hope
Board meeting in Reno, Nev., interest them. Check the Califor- to see you at an activity. Or two.
August 10-12. Our national Com- nia Wing calendar on our website, Or three.
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of vehicles?
Signal-strength units call for a combination of
field techniques. In “Body Shielding” the ground
team member places his body between the source of
the transmission and the receiver. This is a practice
utilized frequently with the L-per receiver. Since the
body effectively absorbs radio waves, when it is
between the transmitter (ELT) and the receiver (your
DF unit) it partially blocks the signal, allowing the
ground-team member to narrow in on the direction.
At close range, the switched antenna array is then
disconnected and a rubber duck antenna (sometimes
no antenna at all) is attached.
The second method to reinforce the body-
shielding technique is “near field proximity,”
wherein the signal gets stronger as you get nearer the
transmitter and suddenly even stronger as you enter
the “near field” within one wavelength (with 121.5
signals, that’s about eight feet).
My design has three principal building blocks:
An RF receiver section, a signal strength section, and
an audio demodulator section. The RF section is a
narrow-band FM receiver module. Some hams may
have noted that ELT’s are amplitude modulated
BARGAIN HUNTER: Capt. Lord field tests his low-cost (AM), but fear not. FM receivers will hear them just fine.
design. FM receivers work a little differently than AM
receivers. AM receivers can hear weak signals with
Breathtaking Ingenuity lots of noise in the background. That’s good in a
direction finder for detecting an ELT on the fringe.
Continued . . .
FM receivers, in contrast, exhibit a phenomenon
Leggio’s http://home.att.net/~jleggio/projects/rdf/ called capture: They either pick up the transmis-
tdoa2.htm). But as I was trying to keep the size and sion perfectly or not at all. But since my design is
expense to a bare minimum, I decided to stick with a really intended for close-range detection, this is
basic signal-strength-based design, which usually not a problem.
functions in one of two ways. Most commonly, a The display in my design acts more like an AM
highly directional Yagi-type antenna is connected to receiver. You can detect a signal using the bar graph
a receiver and when pointed toward the source the LED display without actually hearing it. This is espe-
signal strength increases, indicating the direction of cially useful capability since a high percentage of
the signal’s origination. ELT failures result in a carrier-only signal, without
Unfortunately, directional antennae intended for the characteristic swept tone. In the absence of a sig-
Civil Air Patrol ELT missions (121.5 Mhz fre- nal, you will hear a hissing sound, atmospheric and
quency) require elements that are about four feet electronic noise. As a carrier-only signal becomes
long (see Saman Seneviratne’s “In Search of the Per- stronger, the receiver will become “quieter,” a phe-
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ungainly. Even first-generation L-per’s induce our given the urban direction finding task, it’s not
mothers’ worst fear (“You’ll put your eye out!”). uncommon to be on airfield, surrounded by moving
What ground team member hasn’t poked his team- propellers.
mates with his “sticks” while trying to get in and out Continued . . .
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The signal-strength display
section has a total of ten LEDs in
a bar graph array. The receiver
h a s a n 8 0 d B dynamic range
on its RSSI (Received Signal
Strength Indicator). In theory that
means an 8dB difference in signal
between segments, assuming
good linearity. (I’m sorry to have
subjected you to that, but I knew
someone would ask.) In practice,
the first or second LED will usu-
ally light up just from noise. The
last LED will not light until you
are almost touching the antenna—
unless of course someone is key-
ing up their radio on 121.5.
The demodulator section
drives a speaker or headphone,
allowing you to hear the audio
information transmitted, which is
very helpful. Hearing the swept
tone of an ELT or EPIRB allows
you to confirm an actual distress- WAIT STATE: The circuit board replete with LED indicator.
device activation. Hearing a carrier only implies an nine-volt battery. The PC board has a built in volume
ELT failure, often the dying breaths of an ELT as control, and a pin-out section with connections for
the battery dies. Hearing a conversation means that ground, audio, power, and RSSI.
someone is sitting on his aircraft band push-to-talk I’m selling the device as a kit to keep the unit
switch. “Digital” sounds indicate a microprocessor affordable. A fully assembled DF device would
or other electronic device inadvertently emitting on require an FCC approval costing thousands of dollars
the distress frequency. (CD players, DVD players, and thwarting my objective to put a cheap, effective
and a number of computer peripherals have done receiver into the hands of search-and-rescuers. Sell-
this—and by now we’ve all heard about CAP’s non- ing the device as a kit eliminates that problem, since
distress Find of a big-screen television.) experimenters can build any kind of receiver they
I designed the circuit footprint with the idea of wish, so long as it does not cause interference. And
disguising it in an unpretentious Altoids tin, although as the RF modules were designed for sale in the U.S.
you can certainly put it in a nice metal project box and Great Britain, they already pass FCC muster. So
marked “TOP SECRET” if you wish. (In any case, sit back, enjoy a mint, and expect to see an “Altoids
always use a metal box for radio receivers to keep ELT Receiver” on E-bay soon.
them from picking up and generating noise.) Because As a ground team leader, Capt. Allen R. Lord
it uses a standard FM receiver, it can work with participated in such missions as the Space Shuttle
off-the-shelf radio direction finding kits such Columbia mission and recently returned from New
as the Ramsey Fox or Doppler kits (see Orleans where he worked for FEMA in disaster
ramseyelectronics.com). recovery. Capt. Lord holds an FCC commercial
I expect to sell my design as a finished and tested license with a RADAR endorsement and, as an elec-
printed circuit board. Buyers would provide the case, tronic security consultant, has extensive experience
an on-off switch, an antenna connector (BNC, RCA, in the design and use of radio tracking systems. He’s
etcetera), a small speaker or headphone jack, double- a licensed Private Investigator.
sided tape for mounting the PC board, and a
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and Other Cold Comforts
Scorch this Hot Quiz with feet elevated 10 to 12 inches, easing the work of
Continued . . . the heart. Take active cooling measures to cool them
down. Remove or loosen their tight clothing for
How to Treat for Heat them. Cover their body with wet sheets or cloth.
Heat-related illnesses usually progress through Douse them with water. Use a fan, magazine, clip-
stages. Dehydration can lead to heat cramps, which can board, or even a large piece of cardboard to fan
lead to heat exhaustion, which can lead to heat stroke them—anything to get the air moving. If you have
and death if not treated. If you recognize signs of a heat- ice packs, place them in the victim’s armpits, groin,
related illness, here is what you can do to help. and on the neck to help cool the large blood vessels
First comes the heat cramps. Treatment: Find a near the surface of the skin. Watch for signs of
cooler place. Rest comfortably. Sip small amounts of breathing difficulty. If victims begin to vomit, imme-
cool water. Stretch and massage cramped muscles. If diately turn them onto their side so they do not
the symptoms subside, they’re good to go. choke. Be prepared to perform CPR if necessary (see
If it’s gotten to heat exhaustion, take the addi- Maj. Carol Denise Edwards, “Keeping Your Head
tional steps of passive cooling measures by having During Mouth-to-Mouth,” Eagle Call, Winter 2005).
the victim remove or loosen tight clothing. Offer the Memorize the method of treating for heat and
cool water only if they are completely awake and remain alert to others around you who may be experi-
alert. If you have any doubts, give them nothing. Call encing a heat-related illness. By taking care of yourself,
9-1-1 if they refuse water (or are not alert enough to you are protecting California Wings greatest asset.
drink it themselves), or if they vomit, appear con- Capt. Storey is the Emergency Services Officer of
fused, or lose consciousness. the Fullerton Composite Squadron 56, and is active
Heat stroke is life threatening. Call 9-1-1 first. in CAP ES. A certified SARTECH II with the
The victim must be protected from direct sun, even if National Association of Search and Rescue
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THE CADET COSMOS
10 Tips
Continued . . .
look foreign (Value of Drill And excessive water loss. Dehydration Officer Miserable.
Ceremonies). Don’t worry. You can turn into a real medical emer- Have your uniform ready to go
will learn it all by the end of gency if left untreated. Some before you get there. Spend some
encampment. If you’re not moti- signs of dehydration include time ironing and prepping it
vated to do memory work, get fatigue and muscle weakness, before you leave home to make
with a friend and study. painful muscle cramps, upset sure you look your best. Cut the
Sub-Tip: Get your Chain of Com- stomach or nausea, feeling bomb cords. (“Boom?”) As I said,
mand down first. CTG Flight lightheaded or dizzy, a darker you won’t have much extra time
Sergeants love to quiz you on this than normal urine color (clear to so anything you can do before-
section. pale yellow is good), and disori- hand to make your uniform look
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Go for the 3-peat
Jody, Jody, Look and See,
Y ou’ve probably asked your- What Encampment Done to Me!
self, “Why would I want to get
yelled at for a week of my sum-
mer vacation?” I t began with a sense of forebod-
Because—call me crazy— ing. Every encampment horror
California Wing’s encampment is story I’d ever heard rushed to
the best cadet activity. Having mind as I stood in line to check
attended two consecutive camps my luggage (“processing in”),
(97th CTS, Fort Hunter-Liggett, studying my SOP. The sound of
Delta Flight; and last year at flight staff yelling at cadets
Camp SLO, with the ATS, echoed from every building, filling
Whiskey Flight), I’d like to con- the air. I had definitely arrived.
vince you that it is a worthwhile The first day consisted of
experience. learning the encampment stan-
dard for everything, from prop-
erly folding clothes to how to eat
at the chow hall. Cadets met their
flight staffs and fellow basics.
Before sunrise the next morn-
ing, we awoke to the sound of our
flight sergeant loudly ordering us using teamwork. We climbed
up and outside. Cold air slapped walls, swung across water, and
us as we began our first PT of the transported personnel and sup-
week. Today’s theme: teamwork. plies through an obstacle course
We learned that in order to perfect within a set time.
everything in our barracks, we It got better: Orientation
had to work together. In order to flights allowed us to experience
drill perfectly, we had to work Chinook helicopters and see the
together. spectacular scenery beyond Camp
By midweek, I’d discovered SLO. We all went to the range to
that encampment is not just get- shoot M16s— the highlight of the
ting yelled at. Each flight had run week for some cadets in my
the military obstacle course. flight. Marching flights sounded
Strained voices had reached their off jodies with pride. In the end, it
There’s a practical benefit: limits as cadets motivated one was the sound of high morale we
Finishing an encampment makes another. The Leadership Reaction could hear in the air.—Cadet
you eligible to take the exam for Course presented us with a chal- Tech. Sgt. Melanie Tunison,
the General Billy Mitchell lenge that could be met only by Travis Composite Squadron 22
Award and promote through the
cadet-officer ranks. Without an
encampment credit, forget about When you graduate encamp- Yes, there is a lot of yelling.
becoming a cadet officer. ment, you will have joined the Don’t worry about it, and don’t
But it’s not just about pro- elite corps of the Cadet Training take it personally. Your flight
moting. At encampment you’ll Group (CTG). Graduating encamp- staff wants to see you exceed the
experience what it’s like to be a ment earns the awesome feeling encampment standard and con-
member of a team, join a flight, of being on the parade deck with quer the challenges of this gruel-
and graduate with your fellow your flight for closing ceremo- ing week.—Cadet Senior Master
cadets. Without a team effort— nies. By this time you will have Sgt. Steve Dominguez, Travis
without your effort—the flight realized that it is not about you, Composite Squadron 22
will not succeed. but the team.
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Yellow Lights on Electric Avenue
Continued . . .
10 Tips
to do it. It is for their safety too. components could be exposed Continued from page 28 . . .
The potentially lethal voltage after a particularly severe colli-
stored in the batteries of hybrids sion. First responders across the hard but it only gets harder if you
presents another safety hazard— country are being trained to locate are perceived as lazy. If you are
up to 500 volts in the Toyota the emergency high-voltage told to do something, make sure
Prius. Safety experts say 60 volts, disconnects on the current pro- you do it to standards. If you see
and even lower in some cases, can duction model HEVs, but that’s something needs doing, take the
be lethal. As a Good Samaritan at above our pay-grade in CAP. initiative and do it to standards. If
the scene of an automobile colli- You’re probably asking, you don’t know what the stan-
sion, you will not be cutting open “What about spilled gasoline and dards are, find out—and quick.
doors, roofs, or side pillars— high-voltage sparks? Won’t Sub-Tip: Never cheat or take
that’s for the fire department. these cars explode into flames?” short cuts. You’ve heard stories
Although your risk of contacting Good question, Good Samaritan! about cadets putting pens in their
high-voltage wiring is less than Hybrids are actually very safe. rolled shirts to make them stiffer,
professional rescuers, exercise Collisions severe enough to rup- or other inventive ways to cut cor-
extra caution. “For electricity to ture the fuel tank most likely have ners. Don’t do it. You have an
be transferred from the battery to activated the safety features honor code for a reason—to make
the motor, the car has to be accel- designed to disconnect the high- you a better cadet.
erating or decelerating,” explains
Sage Marie, Honda spokesman.
“Unless the car is moving, there is
voltage at the source. Fire is always
a possibility at any automobile
collision. The best advice: Keep
10 This is No Time to
Emulate Dirty Harry.
no high-voltage current moving your eyes open and prepare to “Teamwork!” This is what every-
through the wires. Even so, move out of harm’s way. one was screaming at me before
there’s no reason any rescue Hybrids are not everywhere my first encampment. Believe
worker should be anywhere near yet, but they’re not exactly novel- me, you’d better learn it from day
the wires, and where the wires are ties, either. In 2005 alone, Torrance- one. Encampment is not just
located, they won’t be.” based Toyota sold 107,897 Prius about teaching you how to drill,
Automakers have gone to models and Honda put more than how to make your rack, or even
great lengths to reduce dangers 26,000 Civic Hybrids and Insights how to eat like a robot. Yes, those
from the high-voltage compo- on the road—and the eco-conscious are important, but the true pur-
nents in their hybrids. They’ve Golden State dominates HEV pose of encampment is to teach
color-coded the high-voltage wir- sales, according to Car Concepts, you teamwork. You will learn
ing and components in our SAR- Thousand Oaks. By the end of the how to operate under pressure,
standard attention-grabbing blaze year, Toyota will likely have sold using your teammates (your
orange. These wires are routed 30,000 units of the new hybrid Flight) to overcome! You are
along the midline of the vehicle Camry—the most popular vehicle going to rely on your team for
frame wherever possible for in America. By 2008, nine almost everything. And the les-
increased protection. Automatic automakers will produce 15 mod- sons you learn here will be
interlocks disconnect the high- els of hybrids, including two full- invaluable now and throughout
voltage circuits if the air bags size trucks, four sport utility your entire life.
deploy. The high-voltage batter- vehicles, and three new hybrid Sub-Tip: Remember T.E.A.M.—
ies are not grounded to the frame versions of current model passen- Together Everybody Accom-
of the vehicle, so there is little ger cars. There will be accidents. plishes More!
danger of being electrocuted by Don’t be afraid to help if you are C/2nd Lt. Jordan Petree is
merely touching a wrecked in a position to do so. the Cadet Commander at
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Committed to the
Another “Class of 9/11” Success Story CORE
RIVERSIDE—Capt. Jon Stokes, column of the Riverside Press-
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San Bernardino Senior Squad- newspaper that he’d joined Civil of Amelia Earhart Senior Squad-
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Meyer, right, at the change of September 11th because, never relief in the Federal Emergency
command) was recognized in having joined the military, he Management Agency program
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Achievers and Volunteers” the country. The publication of Responding to Emergencies. The
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spective The curriculum for the three-
members, part program, conducted over
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San Diego
Cadets Steal a
Glimpse of a
Night Hawk
‘Neath the shadow of a
Stratofortress: Cadets,
Seniors, and Air Force
tour guides gather.
SAN DIEGO—Members of Billing and Dee O’Sargent, both bomber—highlighting the various
three Civil Air Patrol squadrons of SQ47, conducted walking tours defensive systems such as chaff,
got the catbird’s view of an with Capt. Dennis Ammann of flares, and electronic counter-
F-117A Night Hawk Stealth SQ144. measures. Cadets saw the carou-
Fighter during the Miramar Air Highlights of the tour sel bomb rack and learned how
Show at the Marine Corps Air included a Boeing B-52H cruise missiles could be rotated
Station here last October. Stratofortress out of Minot AFB, and ejected.
San Diego Cadet Squadron N.D. Capt. Ryan McGough, Staff Sgt. Brandon Wannarka
144 and South San Diego Cadet radar navigator from the 23rd and Senior Airmen James Ray,
Squadron 201, Chula Vista, typi- Bombing Squadron, thoroughly Bryan Perrine and Shawn Moore,
cally join forces at Miramar to explained the mission, history, systems specialist, all of the 49th
recruit prospects, setting up right and operation of this huge, eight- Air Maintenance Squadron,
next the U.S. Air Force booth. engine aircraft. A young “H” ver- Holloman AFB, N.M., hosted the
Skyhawk Composite Squadron sion with 45-years of service, the tour of an F-117A Night Hawk,
47, Camp Pendleton, was invited B-52 is expected to be in the Air one of two on display. Cadets
to represent the northern portion Force inventory 15 more years. were permitted in pairs to climb
of San Diego County. Master Sgt. Steven Henderson, the hard stand and view the cock-
The show is also Aerospace crew chief, and Staff Sgt. Barry pit. Some cadets viewed the open
Education paradise, with every Heuyard, systems specialist, both bomb rack and learned how the
type of military and civilian plane from the 28th Bombing Squad- two 2,000 pound bombs eject
imaginable on display, from mili- ron, Dyess AFB, Tex showed the during a bombing run. The tour
tary replica WWI aircraft to the B-1B Lancer—a swing-wing, guides explained the infrared
latest fighters. Majors Brian supersonic, four-engine heavy camera, laser-guidance and
exhaust dissi-
pation systems,
engines, land-
ing gear, and
recounted the
F-117’s com-
bat history.
The day’s
excitement
later peaked
when the Blue
Angels, the
Navy Flight
Demonstra-
tion Team,
performed.—
Capt. Dennis
Ammann,
The B-1B Lancer above Edwards AFB during the CAP-supported 2003 Open House and PAO
Air Show, when it unofficially set and broke almost 50 new world speed records and
later released a payload of inert weapon. USAF photo by Steve Zapka.
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42
A Predator Puts Down: The advanced UAV lands at Gray Buttes-El Mirage test
facility about 20 miles southeast of Edwards AFB. Two Predator weapons systems
are undergoing developmental test and evaluation by the newly-formed
Detachment 1 of the 452nd Flight Test Squadron. Photo courtesy USAF.
Iraqi Freedom Flag
Finds Home at SQ5
RIVERSIDE—San Bernardino
Senior Squadron 5 was honored
in February with the surprise pre-
sentation of an American flag
flown in a combat mission over
Iraq. 1 st Lt. Kevin Strange, a
member of the squadron, returned
from working in Iraq and pre-
sented the flag to the unit com-
mander Capt. Jon Stokes. A
plaque bearing the following
inscription accompanied the folded and encased flag:
1st Military Intelligence Battalion
Mosul Air Base, Iraq
“To all who read this: Let it be known that this American Flag was flown on a combat mission over
the skies of Iraq on 31 December 2005 to 1 January 2006 aboard an IGNAT-ER, Aircraft #002,
Callsign T-Bone 31, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom to aid in maintaining stability and the
reconstruction of Iraq as we prosecute the war on terrorism and is hereby presented to CAP Squadron
5 for your outstanding support and sacrifice to our nation and our brothers and sisters in arms.”
Lt. Strange had been stationed personal comfort supplies to our extensive use by U.S. government
at LSA Diamondback in Mosul wounded soldiers recovering in agencies, including the Air Force,
on an Army contract supporting Germany. Army, Navy, NASA, and Depart-
the troops in northern Iraq. Other The I-GNAT Aircraft, which ment of Energy. Other models are
members of Squadron 5 have carried the flag and its sister craft, being used to patrol the skies over
flown supplies and troops in sup- the Predator, are remote control the U.S. /Mexico border. These
port of U.S. operations in aircraft, UAVs (unmanned aerial remote control aircraft are con-
Afghanistan and Iraq. The unit vehicles). UAVs deploy state-of- trolled from mobile ground con-
has also collected and delivered the-art reconnaissance systems in trol stations that can be installed
in the back of a Hummer. This
technology provides a cheaper
and safer alternative to manned
reconnaissance.
Several southern California
locations are being used for UAV
development, testing and training.
These locations include flight
operations facilities in El Mirage
and Gray Butte in the Mojave
Desert east of Los Angeles and a
Research and Development facil-
ity in Adelanto, Calif.—Capt.
James Daley
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44
Lancer Crew Cuts It
with Cadets
SAN DIEGO—Staff Sgt.
Angelic Atkins and her fiancée,
Staff Sgt. Kurtis Payne, both on
active duty with the USAF’s 28th
Maintenance Squadron, Ellsworth
AFB, South Dakota, took their
leave time to speak to San Diego
Cadet Squadron 144 here last
December. Sgt. Atkins is a struc-
tural mechanic and Sgt. Payne
maintains ground support equip-
ment for the B-1B Lancer, 28th
Bomb Wing, Air Combat Com-
mand. The two staff sergeants
explained their respective jobs
and outlined the challenges facing
the USAF to provide parts for an Members of Squadron 144 enjoy a photo op with Staff Sgt. Kurtis Payne, USAF
1980s-vintage aircraft that is no (left) in civilian clothes, Staff Sgt. Angelic Atkins, USAF (center), and Lance Cpl.
longer made. Sgt. Atkins stated Chris Houcom, USMC (right). Photo by Capt. Dennis Ammann
Continued . . .
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RE:CAP
“Attention all Units…Make That All Groups…
Ah, Heck, Everybody in the Wing
Look for a Boob Hauling a Boat!”
FRESNO—At the end of a 103 to head it off and launched
freezing, all-night search of the CAPflight 404 from Fresno Com-
Grapevine for an emergency loca- posite Squadron 112.
tor transmitter in February, a Unable to correlate the read
CF404 could do nothing but take
ground team from Bakersfield out of the Cessna 206’s direction pictures of the oblivious offender.
Composite Squadron 121 felt it finder with its barely audible
had finally closed in for the kill. report, Maj. Mark Lambie, Pilot could hear the ELT, confirming
That’s when the signal started in Charge, and Mission Observer that it was moving north, appar-
moving—from Group 6 to Group Jennifer Waite resourcefully ently on Interstate 5.
4 territory. About-to-be-seasoned swapped out the bad DF unit with CF404 caught up to the signal
Incident Commander trainee a handheld model and continued west of Sacramento Metro (Group
Theresa Longley dispatched a the chase. 5). A ground team, Lt. Col.
second ground team from San Almost two hours later, the William Correll and Capt. Art
Luis Obispo Composite Squadron Air Force Rescue Coordination King, Sierra Composite Squadron
Center satellites 72, from CAP’s French Camp
located the signal outpost, were hopelessly behind
near Manteca—so out the signal, outside Stockton.
came a third ground Maj. Lambie applied gastric
team, this one from intel: He knew of a good restau-
Merced County Com- rant at Willows where California
posite Squadron 147, Highway Patrol might be informed
Group 6. That team of their dilemma (and they might
could only hear a use the facilities). But as they
weak signal, so Maj. descended to 1,000 feet, they
Lambie radioed the locked onto the ELT—a Dodge
NorCal Approach pickup with camper hauling a
controller working boat. Ill equipped to do anything
the Stockton area, but pretty S-turns above the
who requested the unwitting ELT-tripping scofflaw,
assistance of any they took pictures (see above).
This California Highway Patrolman left breakfast
other aircrafts flying CF404 taxied to the ramp at
behind to help CAP complete a neverending story.
over the area. A jet Willows. As Maj. Lambie had
predicted, a patrol car was parked
by the CHP’s C206, and an
Lancer Crew Cuts It with Cadets officer was enjoying a hearty late
Continued . . . breakfast. Informed of CF404’s
that although the Lancer is old, stationing in Ellsworth, where dilemma, the officers dispatched
“stealth” technology incorporated he’s from. Marine Lance Cpl. their highway units to pull over
into the airframe gives it the radar Chris Houcom also spoke. The the Dodge and tell the driver to
cross-section of a small bird. Sgt. former CAP Cadet inspired turn off his ELT.
Atkins spoke of her deployments Cadets with tales of his combat CF404 returned with 6.3
to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and experience in Iraq. He sustained hours on the Hobbs, a non-
Oman during the past six years. shrapnel wounds and hearing loss distress find, and lots of pictures
Sgt. Payne said he’d joined the Air after a suicide bomber attacked to prove it.—Reported by
Force to see the world and laughed his observation post.—Capt. Maj. Mark Lambie, Fresno
at the irony of his subsequent Dennis Ammann, PAO Composite Squadron 112
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Huu g h e s FFaa r m s Re Com Development Company
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West Point 209-293-3184 Gridley 530-846-3936 760-873-3301
Compliments of . . .
ACCO Cable Splicing Wilson’s Feed & Supply
Joey 661-323-0461 707-252-0316
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Selsor Construction Charles e. Miller Bob’s Tire Center
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is proud to salute the lifesaving
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247 Cataract Rd.
Aspendell • 760-873-4785
Hale Aviation, Inc. Thanks Civil Air Patrol! S H N Consulting
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Turbulence in the Empire
Continued from page 35 . . .
49
Stan Leach Timber, Inc. Cruiseair Aviation, Inc. Sierra German Auto
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530-359-2249 French Gulch 2428 Montecito Rd., Ramona 2035 N. Sierra Hwy., Bishop
Shasta Nursery, Inc. 2655 Robert Fowler Way
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Anderson • 530-365-8507 530-842-1612 258-9462
Sunshine Village Condominiums Truman Harris Cheshire Books
2251 Meridian Blvd. is proud to salute the men and 345 N. Franklin, Fort Bragg
(760) women of Civil Air Patrol.
Mammoth Lakes 934-3340 Keep up the good work! 707-964-5918
Bogie’s Auto Parts Midland Tractor Co. Andrew Griffith Construction
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Jim O’Mally Plumbing Edelweiss Lodge Mid-Field Aviation
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California Civil Air Patrol! (707) 426-3436 707-445-5823
Air Carriage LLC hillside aviation Valley Air Service
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51
Oakland International Airport
salutes the efforts of the dedicated men and
women of the California Civil Air Patrol.
TM
NEW STANDARDS FOR LIVING
We are proud to salute and support the
men & women of our Civil Air Patrol
for their dedication and courage
in flying their lifesaving missions.
Thanks and good luck!
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IN MEMORIAM
Air Devil!
Having Known Few Fears in 80
Years, Col. Towse Tells Us How He
Took a Flying Leap of Faith from a
Perfectly Good Airplane
Editor’s note: As fate
would have it, Col. Towse
By Lt. Col. Don Towse, San Jose Senior Squadron 80 sent me this piece for
publication in Eagle Call
SAN JOSE—It’s a warm sunny early December day in the Santa Clara just weeks before his
Valley, and I’m driving down Highway 101 for an appointment to passing in April. I had
celebrate my 80th birthday at Hollister Airport. They are expecting me
about noon, and we will be all finished by three o’clock.
already determined to
I’ve been thinking of doing this since I heard that former President feature it essentially intact
George Bush jumped to celebrate his 80th birthday. I tell my family; when I learned from
they think I’m joking, but I keep it up, and word gets around. So now Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Paul
I’m really going to have to do it. “You can still change your mind,” I tell Ward that Col. Towse had
myself as I turn into the airport, but pride and curiosity urge me on, and I died. In a sense this piece,
park next to the skydiving school.
There is a small office, a rack of jump suits, and a large barn-like
his voice, bears witness
room where parachutes are carefully folded and packed for use. Not the and fitting tribute to his
old-style round parachutes that go where the wind blows them, these are spirit. I hope all of us who
colorful rectangles with thick straps connected to the four corners. The served with Col. Towse,
straps at the rear have handles so that the jumper can steer by moving whether or not we had the
the trailing edge of the parachute. honor of knowing him, will
I watch a video, accept liability for everything the lawyers can think cherish in this wry, folksy
of, and acknowledge that I know that this is a dangerous activity that has
no useful purpose. (Okay, a lot of people do nutty things. At least this
memoir what I admire: His
promises to be a real adventure.) joie de vivre. Requiescant
I meet my instructor, jumpmaster Steve Rafferty. He’s a solidly in pace.
built man in his late thirties, a
little less than six feet tall with
short-cropped graying hair and a
slightly weathered face. He loves
to jump out of airplanes and it
shows. He’s done it almost ten
thousand times. During our flight
he will be my PIC—Parachutist-
in-Command. We share one para-
chute. Both of our harnesses are
attached to it. Students don’t solo
first jump. He finds a jumpsuit
that will fit me, straps me into the
almost too-tight harness, and
Continued . . .
and I admit that I’m a little bit
uneasy looking straight down to
the ground 10,000 below. Pilots
don’t normally have this kind of
view—normal pilots, anyway. So
I take a deep breath, having
finally decided it’s too late to
change my mind anyway. We
adjust our goggles and gloves.
We don’t “jump,” just sort of
step off into the slip stream, and
go into free-fall, heading for
4,500 feet altitude. This is where
we put out our arms like wings
Air Devil and I, a para-photographer to and pretend we’re birds, soaring
Continued . . . document my adventure, and with the hawks and eagles. It
explains everything. another jumper along just for the looks pretty in the movies—but
It’s too late to back out now, fun of it, sit on the floor padding. it’s cold and really breezy up
so off we go. Steve is grinning The pilot and I have seat belts but here, going about 120 miles per
widely from the time we start out everyone else is free to bounce hour. Not good for the complex-
for the plane until long after we’re around. ion or hairdo. From 10,000 feet
safely back on the ground. You The run-up sounds good and the earth seems distant. I can
can see he just loves this. They the plane quickly climbs to actually see the curve of the
load four of us into a six-place 10,000 feet, full throttle all the horizon and all the way from
Cessna airplane. We say this is a way. We slow to about 90 knots the Sierra Nevada on the east
“perfectly good” airplane, but in and someone opens the door. The t o t h e P a cific Ocean and
reality it’s old and only “good photographer gets out first and is Monterey Bay to the west. We
enough.” This model has no cargo standing on the wing strut out- continue to turn; the world looks
door; the co-pilot seat on the right side, waiting for us. like it’s slowly spinning under us,
side has been removed and the It’s windy! What’s more, it but the ground doesn’t seem to be
modified door with hinges on top feels unnatural to sit on the door- coming up as fast as I had imag-
has an easy-release catch. The sill with my legs outside. I’m sup- ined. My PIC has an altimeter
door swings up so we can get out posed to put my foot on a step on strapped to his wrist so we can see
when the time comes. The outside the wing strut, but my legs are too how we’re doing.
looks good but the interior is short to reach it. Steve says not to The photographer comes
well-worn. Only the pilot has a worry, the slipstream will help us close to take a picture, we smile
seat; the rest of us, the instructor out! It’s cold out here, and noisy, Continued . . .
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GEARED UP / IN MEMORIAM
Hearts of Glass
Welcoming the
Wing’s New 182 Has
NorCal Pilots Bidding
Fond Adieux
By 1st Lt. Steve Taylor,
Group 5 PAO
NORTH HIGHLANDS—Nos-
talgic sentiment met welling
excitement as pilots of NorCal
Group 5 bid farewell to their
PAINT THE SKY: Awaiting a mission at Sacramento Composite Squadron 15.
faithful old plane and received the
new Cessna 182T with the We love flying that bird. For switch would play games now
Garmin “glass cockpit.” many of us, it was our introduc- and then. The radio toggled
Group 5 had been on notice tion to the 182. If you happened to between left and right seats—and
for nearly a year that one of its be transitioning from a Cessna alternated between functioning
units might be the next to take 172, the 182 felt like a wild horse and not. Sometimes the CAP
possession of one of those high- you’d been tasked to break. But radio worked. Sometimes, we just
tech airplanes with all the bells after a short time it felt as tame as did our best without it.
and whistles. So when the first a kitten, requiring as little care The aircraft itself always per-
aircraft assignment fell to another and feeding as fresh oil, a light formed exceptionally well. This
group, we were disappointed to buff of the leading edge, and an was due in no small part to the
say the least. Thankfully, we were annual checkup. exceptional aircraft managers
not left empty-handed and indeed Like a favorite old car or we’ve had over the years. Our
happy to carry on with our trust- truck, this plane had given us guys take ownership of a plane
worthy bird of many years, a 1981 flawless performance for many and baby it as if it was their own.
Cessna 182R. years. Oh, sure, the push-to-talk Continued . . .
Air Devil
points out a field far below and attesting to my 10,000-foot dive
Continued . . .
ahead of us. There are two para- and a bumper sticker for my
and wave, and he’s off. We see chutes already there, and a van on pickup truck: “I JUMPED
his ‘chute open far below us and the road next to them. That will be FROM A PERFECTLY GOOD
will meet him again on the our landing zone. Steve pulls on AIRPLANE.”
ground. Our parachute opens with the parachute straps to steer us Back home about 4 o’clock, I
little jerk. We take off our goggles toward it. We are taught to land find my wife waiting, just a little
to drift silently down. This part is with our legs straight out in front, anxiously. She asks me, “Are you
pretty nice. After flying along, using our butts for landing gear. It going to do it again?”
belly down, it’s good to be nearly turns out pretty well for us. We’re “I don’t feel any need to
vertical, enjoying the view. Down sitting on a wide strap that cush- repeat it,” I reply. “Once is
there, on a warm Friday after- ions the landing nicely. enough for now.”
noon, I can see the hills and fields On the ground we shake Then to myself: It really was
and the new subdivisions in a hands, hug, and pose for pictures. fun. Maybe, again, on my 90th
more normal perspective. Steve I get an official certificate birthday.
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Hearts of Glass
Continued . . .
(By the way, have you thanked
your aircraft manager lately?)
That being said, we really
like the new aircraft. Who
wouldn’t? This baby is loaded! In
2004 Cessna debuted the G-1000
in their Skylanes. It replaces
many tradition cockpit instru-
ments with twin 10.4-inch high-
definition liquid crystal displays
(thus the nickname “glass cock-
pit”). The displays of this inte-
grated avionics system function
interchangeably as primary or
multi-function. Redundancy is
built-in with automatic fault GARMIN GLAMOR: An inside look at NorCal’s new 182T.
monitoring and reversionary foresaw the need to get started approach charts?). With all this
mode (meaning flight-critical early, so in January about 50 on display, as well as moving map
data can be seamlessly transferred members of NorCal units GPS, if you get lost or empty your
to a single display). attended half-day of ground train- tanks, well, you’ve got some
The engine gauge cluster pro- ing taught by a local flight school. ‘splainin’ to do!
vides all the standard gauges, and This gave us a detailed introduc- The flight home gave Capt.
includes engine trend data, lean tion to the inner workings of the Slavensky and Lt. Scanlon a
assist, and more. A centrally unit, tips, tricks, and good hands- chance to test some of the new
located digital audio panel on experience. The instructor also features. Due to bad weather over
includes automatic squelch con- made available the flight school’s the Rockies and the Sierras, the
trol and audio recording/playback G1000 simulator so that CAP team traveled only from Indepen-
for capturing ATC clearances. members get in practice over the dence, Kan., to Albuquerque,
There’s also a Mode-S transpon- next few months. N.M., the first day, then touched
der with Traffic Information Ser- NorCal sent two of its very down in Apple Valley and made it
vice (TIS), weather display, and best check pilots to 5 ½ days of home to Sacramento the next. The
satellite phone for those missions intense training at Cessna head- crew flew 134 knots ground speed
requiring digital imaging. quarters in Wichita, Kansas. Capt. most of the way.
The new plane is SAR mis- Bill Slavensky, Sacramento Com- Many of us came out to wel-
sion-ready. Brand new CAP posite Squadron 15, and 1st Lt. come the crew home from their
radios and Becker direction-find- Patrick Scanlon, Marin Air Res- long flight—and to get our first
ing equipment are built-in. And cue Squadron 23, Novato, report peek at our new bird. But as we
we even like the colors: A beauti- receiving very professional train- welcome our 182T and look for-
ful factory CAP-insignia paint ing focused on the basic concepts, ward to many years of performing
job. Then there’s that “new the line-replaceable unit, and the missions together, we bid a fond
plane” smell. heading and altitude reference set. farewell to our dependable 182R.
Piloting one of these will They were also familiarized with Though other squadrons might
require a lot of training. It’s still the new terminology, with an envy our new plane, we have just
essentially a 182, but working the emphasis on using the checklist. a touch of our own for the folks
electronics and getting used to the They were encouraged to take a that will be flying our old friend.
new display scan does take a little “hands-off” approach (did I men- We hope it brings them as much
time. Instrument checkout is even tion the 3-axis autopilot—affec- enjoyment as it did us.
more complex. tionately referred to as George—
Fortunately, our leadership and the built-in Jeppesen
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