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pest · 06-27-2003, 03:38 PM

I've been on Eglin, Hurlbert and Tyndall. I even got to fly into eglin's main field in my dads small private plane for an open house they had. Pretty cool.

Eglin is the largest military base in the country. They keep very tight control on the airspace around the Ft Walton/Destin area that they are located in. Civilian traffic can only fly into those cities by flying thru one of two corridors. One goes east/west along the beach, and the other goes north/south out of the area. I was flying with my dad in his cessna 182, while being routed by eglin control on the beach flyway. They tell us we have traffic on our 6 at 10 miles at our altitude, but they have us painted on their radar. Shortly after they say they have us on visual. Less than a minute later 2 pairs of f-15s roar past less than 100 yards off our wing. We we doing something close to 130mph and they pass us laike we are standing still and they were probably already throttled way back. Impressive to say the least.

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pest is Offline Senior Member Posts: 2,828 Join Date: May 2002 Location: Buzzin around the dung pile...	06-27-2003, 03:38 PM I've been on Eglin, Hurlbert and Tyndall. I even got to fly into eglin's main field in my dads small private plane for an open house they had. Pretty cool. Eglin is the largest military base in the country. They keep very tight control on the airspace around the Ft Walton/Destin area that they are located in. Civilian traffic can only fly into those cities by flying thru one of two corridors. One goes east/west along the beach, and the other goes north/south out of the area. I was flying with my dad in his cessna 182, while being routed by eglin control on the beach flyway. They tell us we have traffic on our 6 at 10 miles at our altitude, but they have us painted on their radar. Shortly after they say they have us on visual. Less than a minute later 2 pairs of f-15s roar past less than 100 yards off our wing. We we doing something close to 130mph and they pass us laike we are standing still and they were probably already throttled way back. Impressive to say the least.