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Originally Posted by Freightdog1  Anyone been to El Paso? It's been a long time for me but my first time there I thought I was seeing double. There's almost a duplicate airport a few miles to the north I believe. A military base from what I remember. It would be soooo easy to screw up and land there. |
ATP flight school uses El Paso as a gas up point for XC's. Before we start our cross countries they give us this huge packet with all the airports and all the little things we need to know, and El Paso's had a HUGE warning about not landing at the wrong airport. Good thing I had read it. My partner was the PF and was cleared for the traffic pattern since it was blue skies and not a cloud in sight. He insisted at first the base was the airport we where going to. I assured him that the northern airport was the base, and southern was the civilian. It took about 30 seconds of convincing before he agreed with me. Besides the fact that we could see commercial airline traffic going in as well.
-Rob