113 is a POS. Our wing had a nice set of commercial Motorolla units - never had any problems.
Brett
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The Proverbial Blind Hog and the Acorn....
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113 is a POS. Our wing had a nice set of commercial Motorolla units - never had any problems.
Brett
Our keys to success on this were the following (which map well to the suggestions already made):
-On the way out on Friday, we overflew both our hold point and our route into the field. This was invaluable in terms of giving us a sense of the terrain and what we would be looking for the next day.
-We pre-briefed the night prior with the TV production folks. Included in this was a Navy O-5 helo bubba who was up at CGSC at Leavenworth; bribed with free pit passes, he was our radio man at the track, and would give us the timing calls. This was key since there would always be some slop in when the anthem started.
-We used a 112B, and it was lima charlie from 10 miles.
-The TV production folks knew that the singer in question typically completed the anthem in 1:35, so we did the time/motion analysis of what speed we had to be at where if we pushed at the start of the anthem.
-Once the anthem started, our radio man gave us the "Oh jeez, she's going faster than normal!", which caused us to gun things a bit. Then she started dragging things out, which caused us to slow down a bit. We were a bit fast as a result, but the NASCAR crowd loves loud things, and two Prowlers at MRT put out the decibels.
-One other:
-Time reference: Everyone should agree on Zulu, and then everything should be referenced to the agreed on ToT. We tried to do some math in public on the fly and it got ugly. Amazing how much basic arithmetic you can forget under pressure.
By the way, did I mention we were rock stars?
Good times Spy! Yep, standard judgment of a Prowler flyover is how many car alarms you set off........ Did the one for Plebe swearing in maybe five years ago at the Academy. Two Prowlers, 500 knots and 500 feet over Annapolis, made a little noise
Hrm... did the whole Plebe Summer thing in 2001... (why I was asking). I don't remember seeing a couple Prowlers fly over, but then I really don't remember much of the last 2 weeks of the summer, so me not remembering doesn't necessarily mean anything.
Ahh.... That would explain why I don't remember it... Was almost a full year before I was at Ye Merry Olde Boat Skool.
If you are the Rooks then you make your own rules and fly whatever altitude you want......
I was listening to the radio and the announcer was in shock when they fly over, "that was not a fly-over, that was a fly right-by!!!"
Best fly-by I saw was at a '99 USC football game. VFA-125 did it with a three ship, two went screaming over right on time flying nice and level.....followed about 2 seconds later by the third who promptly went vertical right over the stadium doing slow aleiron rolls as he climbed to about 5k and leveled off. Pretty good show 
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If you are the Rooks then you make your own rules and fly whatever altitude you want......
Yeah, way to fvck it up for everyone else.
Brett
What is up, Bubba? Overhead, four-ship? You've been hanging around the USAF too much. It's break and division (3 is a light division). Consider yourself counseled.
Brett