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Imperial Valley Airport

Stearmann4

Stearmann4

I'm here for the Jeeehawd!
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Any of you guys from NASNI or Camp Pendleton been to Imperial Valley airport lately? We're planning to stge out of the FBO there for a few days, and wondered about the facilities, service, etc. The information available on Airnav.com is scarce, and upon calling them, they of course said the service was great, etc, etc.

Any inputs would be appreciated.
 
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MasterBates

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As long as our short little legs can reach, anyways.

Lots of destinations (Read: any airport with contract fuel) rocks!

Only being able to go 300-350 a bag does put a restriciton on where we can get to in reasonable time. The man does not want us going over 800 miles away on a true X-C, so we are pretty much limited to Houston in the west, DC(winter) NYC (summer)in the north. Chicago is do-able, but you have to get an O-4 that wants to go that far to have enough juice to make the man say OK.
 
HH-60H

HH-60H

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MasterBates said:
The man does not want us going over 800 miles away on a true X-C, so we are pretty much limited to Houston in the west, DC(winter) NYC (summer)in the north.
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Do the distances from Jax to DC and NYC change from the summer to the winter?
 
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MasterBates

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Yep, its a WX thing. Had an OIC and the QAO get stuck in CT for somethign like a week becasue of it. (of course, the MRB/TRB de-ice was non-functional as always).

That and only "special" relativity applies in HSL.
 
HH-60H

HH-60H

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gregsivers said:
Fly- I know we can dump fuel in an emergency, but I don't remember if they can be dropped or not, I think if necessary they can. But that'd require looking in the NATOPS, which I don't do on Saturdays.
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Do you have an All Stores, Sono Jettison button? That cuts them for us.
 
HH-60H

HH-60H

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Fly Navy said:
Funny question: Do helos have a maximum landing weight? Sounds silly, but helos are foreign to me.
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Nope. We generally hit the flight deck a little more gently than you guys.
 
gregsivers

gregsivers

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Yeah we've got the all stores jettison button. I just couldn't remember, since I just started flying. Still trying to retain everything.
 
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