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| Early dawn at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, the sky is overcast | Night vision view of the E-2 Hawkeye AWACS plane | Engines running - ready to taxi |
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| Heading for runway 07 as the horizon starts to brighten up | Arriving at the runway | |
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| Rolling | Takeoff from Whidbey Island NAS | Climbing through the rain |
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| Spotted some mountains ahead - time to turn north towards Canada | The coastline is barely visible below... if you look closely | |
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| Now heading for Abbotsford | All of a sudden the visibility drops to zero! | Climbing out of the soup in order to avoid the surrounding mountains |
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| The sun is just rising | Abbotsford (CYXX) is already visible on the scope | Time to head for lower ground and descend for the approach |
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| Back inside the clouds | Got visual on the ground again | |
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| Cleared for the visual approach | On final for runway 07 | |
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| Reverse thrust engaged after touchdown | Despite the wet runway surface, the plane stopped in no time! | |