Re: Great Tailed Grackles, Mourning Doves, and Me

On May 14, 2:14 pm, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)"
<reunite.gondw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> That's the base leg.  The racetrack parts are upwind (parallel to the
> runway), crosswind, downwind, base, and final.  These make more sense
> if you remember that they land upwind, against the wind.

I used to know this.   In my primary years, I had thoughts of being a
pilot, but not strongly enough to create op****tunities where
op****tunities were scarce.  By the time I had money and access, other
things were competing for the time.

> Mary "I like F/A-18s, but I hope night operations are rare"

The hot rods only come around in daytime, and usually on weekends.
But the choppers sometimes come back from a drop long after sunset,
and a big egg beater can make plenty of racket.

A sailplane and vector control are most of the other traffic at Los
Al, but I've seen AF1 there a couple of times.

/dps "maybe AF2, too, though not at the same time"