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CAF Airsho Dawn Patrol Maps

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:46 pm
by sam
Any of you ever participated in this?

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:29 pm
by skymstr02
Not in Midland, but in Harlingen and other shows.

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:04 pm
by RyanShort1
Yes...

Image

Ryan

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:50 am
by sam
What year was that pic taken?

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:49 am
by RyanShort1
I think 2006.

Ryan

Dawn Patrol

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:25 pm
by sam
anyone planning on doing it this year?

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:35 pm
by RyanShort1
I probably won't be making Airsho this year. Taylor?

Ryan

Dawn Patrol

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:38 am
by sam
We are thinking about changing it up a lil' this year. Instead of flying in loose trail and circling the cities we are considering something else. We are thinking about sending the Dawn Patrol aircraft out to designated targets used back when Midland was a bomber training base. The planning is still in it's infancy so I don't have any details. However, the idea is to use maps, gps, etc., to go and and find these targets. We've managed to find a few and had a good time doing it.

Dawn Patrol

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:57 pm
by sam
Please join us Ryan.

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:28 pm
by RyanShort1
Sam,

I'm not against the idea, and I'd really love to go, but I'm trying to work on a CFI rating right now, and have a goal of mid-November for finishing. I'm already committed to Wings Over Houston, and frankly, I'm not sure I can spare the time for that with my hoped-for deadline. If you're involved I would VERY much like to get a report on how things go, and if you wouldn't mind, I'd like to get some promotional information to put up on the Lbirds.com website. I'm especially interested in the details of how this "mission" might work!

Ryan

Dawn Patrol

Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:47 pm
by sam
Old Shep is coming up with some great ideas for dawn patrol. More coming soon......

Dawn Patrol

Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:53 am
by sam
We had a good time at Dawn Patrol. Some guys found their targets while some of us didn't. My passenger was an A10 driver, which made me think this would be a slam dunk. It wasn't that easy.

Our targets consisted of tank farms, private strips, and vairous targets used while Midland was a bomber training base. Even with the aid of sectionals, and google earth we still didn't find our last target. The tank farms, and runways were easy, but the old targets were really hard to find.

We tried hard! We flew 1.9 hours and never left our area. I finally had to call it off and get back to the barn before waivered airspace started.

Maybe next time!

Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:36 am
by RyanShort1
Sam,

Would you email me at ryan at lbirds dot com? I'd like to get more details about how it was done...

Ryan

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:37 pm
by sam
Hey Ryan what do ya think of our dawn patrol maps?

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:24 pm
by RyanShort1
I don't know. I either never got them, or... I'm going to check my spam filter.

Ryan