C-17 Dirt Airstrip Landing & Takeoff, Unloads AH-64.

Thanks. That's what 3 C-17 chalks looks like - without fuel stopping to get across either.

I flew one from Yokota to McChord and it was the quickest flight and best ride ever. Only 30 of the 70 odd seats were filled, so I raised a couple of armrests and stretched out. Woke up near CONUS. The boxed flight lunch was good too. USAF has global reach and does it right.

SSG Robert Webster Ya, really not all that uncommon. Runways are oriented based on prevailing winds so it's not at all strange for runways in the same general area to have the same orientation. When I was going through FB-111 training a crew from the operational squadron landed at the wrong airfield in Plattsburg NY. Difference was they had to disassemble the aircraft and truck it back to its intended base.

Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - Wasn't the FB-111 about the same size as an F-14 except in fuselage length?

SSG Robert Webster Yes, pretty much, we often got parked next to each other during air shows because of that. We always joked that it was the only aircraft that leaked more hydraulic fluid than us.

Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - Thinking of possible FEB or other bad stuff, those "wrong field" incidents must be awful for everyone. So the botched approach to KMCF was a day arrival and they visually mistook Peter O' Knight regional for McDill - even though the latter looks nothing like an AFB. Cessnas all over the place, no brown buildings or big hangers. Having flown into the sunrise on long legs myself, I know that's a fatigue situation. Would you not therefore, back yourself up with the ILS - considering the proximity of KMCF to other airports? I cringe thinking about McDill approach giving them "clear to land" as they line up on that regional airport. And it's a crew airplane; somebody could literally have said, right up to to the last minute, "hey guys, that's not McDill..." Anyway, I hope the consequences were not unrecoverable for those guys.