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| At Memphis International just before the early-bird fly-in |
Engines running and flight plan ready, taxiing the 727 |
Arriving at runway 36C |
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| Engines spooling up |
Northwest Airlines 727 taking off from KMEM |
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| Climbing to 5000 feet, turning to follow the course to Tampa, Florida |
Climbing to FL350 |
Departing Memphis, thick cloud cover below |
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| Cruising at FL350 |
Passing Atlanta |
Getting closer to Tampa, descending to FL340 |
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| Around 100 nm to go, descending further (some sunlight already on the horizon) |
22000 feet |
Passing 20000 feet |
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| KBKV (Hernando County Airport) seen from 14000 feet |
Through some clouds at 10000 feet |
Airport in sight, maintaining 3000 feet |
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| Passing St Petersburg / Clearwater Intl |
Descending to 2600 feet, heading for LAGGO fix for the ILS approach to runway 36L and slowing to 200 |
Flaps down 2 notches, passing Macdill AFB |
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| Entering holding pattern for the runway 36L approach |
Turning around to start the approach |
Lowering landing gear |
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| Disconnecting the autopilot for final approach |
Flaps down 30 degrees - due to stall issues with the 727's tail configuration using full flaps is not allowed |
At the outer marker, intercepting localizer and glideslope |
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| The localizer doesn't seem to guide the plane down very accurately... disconnecting autopilot again |
...going to land the plane manually |
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