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    Icon12 2019 RACE screenshots and tall tales

    As is often the case when the clerical staff get tied up with other things, we never got a corner set aside for the non-essential stuff, so here we are.

    It's a cold day over the sea NE of Korea (but the sunshine is a pleasant change)...
    A very close 1:59 leg - hey, I had a minute to spare, huh? - fighting 65 knot winds. It's not a lot of fun staring at the fuel flow and clock for two hours.
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    On leg 7 I took off from Phu Quoc in the Sea Fury. It's the only airport on a Vietnamese island just off the Cambodian coast. Happy memories of a vacation I'd taken on the same beautiful island last November. The evening sunsets really were this good in real life, too.
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    Welcome to Australia!

    This was a memorable leg. I was wingman for Paul, and we'd had an uneventful trip across, but then the forecast from YBRM (Broome) looked pretty bad. It was. It was dark, raining, cloudy, and gusting 40 knots. It took us a couple of attempts to get the Tigercats down safely.

    If you look hard, you can just make out the runway lights.
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    Snow in Chicago

    I grabbed the baton for the Douglas C-47 leg into Midway. It would have been a great sightseeing trip, except the weather was bad.

    Here I am waiting to depart Dodge County. I can barely see the length of runway 20, so it was no surprise that it took incoming pilot Derry a couple of goes to find it and get down safely (with extra pressure, as he'd started as wingman but become baton pilot).

    I waved at Meigs Field as we passed, but no chance of seeing it.

    It was nice of them to close O'Hare airport so that we could fly right over.
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    Crazy dash for the finish

    It always looked like it was going to be a tight race, but I had no idea it would be this tight. AVSIM had got further ahead than I expected after we had to fight some strong headwinds on the KMDW to KMPR previous leg. I set off hoping to catch Eamonn (and his team) in a Bearcat, but without knowing whether I could.

    My aim was to fly about 1000 AGL all the way, to maximise the speed of the F-80 down low. That was fine until two big aerials popped up. I thought about flying between them, but decided the better option was to pop up over them!

    With 20 minutes to go, I was convinced we'd lost. Then I caught the back of the AVSIM flight, but Eamonn was still well ahead. Coming over the last mountains at 7000 I just decided I had to dive and fly straight at the airport, no approach, and just pull a hard right banked turn over the runway 30 threshold, throw out the airbrakes, and hope the wings didn't fall off. It worked! The wheels came down just in time, I screeched to a halt and I got my baton post in within a second or two of the Duenna message popping up.
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    Reach out and touch ya!

    When I was setting up for the flight from Taraz to Leh, Rob reminded me that K2, the second highest mountain in the world at 28,250 feet, lay astride the route. If you ain't careful, somethin' just might reach out and grab ya!
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