The weather was so cloudy today, we could have transported the entire fight one continent over to Europe and I couldn’t have felt more at home flying a training SEAD mission. That said, this flight was replete with air-to-air action (I got two of the ‘bad guys’), and had plenty of air-to-ground hurdles as well. The extra stuff on the jet (IFF interrogator, LINK-16, HMCS) just continues to make life easier!
The only thing that happened today that was really different was we took off and landed on Runway 10. There’s always a first time for everything! The approach coming home was interesting. There’s nothing like getting a descent to 2000′ when there are mountains just 12 miles away from you. Thank the good Lord for a radar with ground mapping capability!