Page 15 - Volume 21 Number 11
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November 2017
It is a short trip today: Seattle’s Boeing Field (KBFI) to Boise, Idaho KBOI) in a vintage 1983 Lear 35. Less than 30 seconds after our wheels leave the pavement of runway 13R we are doing 250 knots and climbing at 4,000 feet per minute. With the power rapidly
being reduced to 65 percent, we come whipping up to the Kent Seven departure procedure’s climb limit of 2,000 feet. The airplane really wants to keep going up, but Seattle Departure Control has their frequency clogged with airline traffic leaving from SEATAC, which is just off to our right, and we can’t get in a word edgewise. So, we roar along at 2,000 feet doing 250 knots, burning $8 worth of fuel every 15 seconds, and heading 90 degrees away from where we really want to go, with the little airplane champing at the bit like a racehorse held back at the track.
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PHOTO CREDIT: PAUL BOWEN PHOTOGRAPHY
