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Frax pilot’s aviating life finally comes full circle

It had been a routine flight, right up to the moment that the captain dialed 24,000 into the altitude preselect controller and we began our descent.

May 16, 2008

It had been a routine flight, right up to the moment that the captain dialed 24,000 into the altitude preselect controller and we began our descent. As I rolled the vertical-speed wheel into a nose-down command, the Citation VII responded slowly, but eventually began a healthy 2,500-fpm descent as we left FL 350 for 240.

Those bright little white, incandescent puff clouds that mark a typical early morning in southern Florida speckled the sky just enough to characterize the place. The sky was clear enough though, so we’d soon be able to cancel our IFR flight plan as we got Jack Graves Field in sight, there in the deep, hospitable south of Gulf Shores, Ala.

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