According to the schedule, we would arrive in Atlanta at 2:26 pm Atlanta
\n time, or about an hour from now. We’ve got a tailwind and should arrive
\n about 20 minutes early. I like early!<\/p>\n
Someone near me has their cell phone turned on as my Bose noise cancelling
\n headset picks up the phone trying to find service. I’m always a good boy
\n and turn off the cell phone radio on my Blackberry when I’m supposed to and
\n turn it back on when it’s allowed. So far as I know, there really isn’t any
\n risk to the flight instruments, it’s just that the ground-based cell phone
\n system isn’t geared for the speed at which jet travel goes past cell towers
\n and the number of towers visible at the same time.<\/p>\n
Got an interesting comment posted last night to a weblog entry from about
\n 18 months ago. Dave had been stationed at Johnson AFB in Japan during the
\n Korean War (some 50 years ago) and is once again living in Japan near
\n Hiroshima. He was searching the Internet looking for references to Johnson
\n AFB and found my blog entry featuring a picture of James and Momo (the dog)
\n outside our rented house when we were living off base at Johnson AFB in the
\n late 1960’s. Dave posted a comment wanting to know how to get there and if
\n the base was still in existance. I sent him back as much info as I had. The
\n base is now a Japanese Self Defense Forces facility and is named Iruma Air
\n Base after the nearby city. I hope he gets back there and shares some
\n pictures! It’ll be many years before I get back there, if ever. Good luck,
\n Dave.<\/p>\n
The flight has been very uneventful. I’m in an aisle seat on the inside of
\n this 767 airplane. In 1st class the seats are arranged 2 on the left, an
\n aisle, 2 in the middle, an aisle, and 2 on the right. The woman sitting on
\n my right is flying in 1st class for the first time. She’s going with her
\n husband (who gave up his upgrade to sit in the back so his wife could be up
\n front — what a guy!) On a business trip to Ft. Meyers, Florida. She’s
\n sound asleep — perhaps because she’s completely undisturbed because her
\n two children are at home staying with grandparents.<\/p>\n
Speaking of grandkids in a round-about way, Peter and Maurene called to let
\n us know that they are expecting twins! At least one of them is a boy. The
\n other fetus was playing hide and go seek thus making determination of the
\n sex indeterminate. Very exciting news!<\/p>\n
We’ve started our serious descent into the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport so we
\n should be on the ground in 20 minutes or so. We must not have made as good
\n time as forecast from the cockpit at the beginning of the flight as that
\n puts us pretty close to on time. No early this leg.<\/p>\n
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According to the schedule, we would arrive in Atlanta at 2:26 pm Atlanta time, or about an hour from now. We’ve got a tailwind and should arrive about 20 minutes early. I like early! Someone near me has their cell phone turned on as my Bose noise cancelling headset picks up the phone trying to … Continue reading Enroute to Atlanta<\/span>