On Tuesday morning I arrived to the control center with the normal spring in my step ready to take on whatever the day has to bring. After my arrival Jeff informed me that I would get to play camera man for some practice runway approaches he and Martina would be making later on in the day. Great I thought, Ill get out of the office for a few hours and get to enjoy a nice flight around So Cal. I had no idea what I was in for…..

As Jeff piloted the plane North, over the San Andreas fault line and into the Mohave where the cross winds were gusting at 30mph+ I began thinking to myself “man we are really Rocking.” We cleared landing with the tower at Fox and proceeded to “buzz” the runway five feet over the asphalt never actually touching down. After a few passes over the runway we headed back into open air and headed towards the Mohave desert airport/airplane graveyard. Passing over the remnants of planes can be quite unsettling, its rather sad to see these huge Jets lined up in the hot sand rotting in place.

As a commercial passenger the last thing on your mind is what happened to planes that are grounded. We buzzed the the runway a few times at Mohave, the last time being runway 30 where the crosswinds were exceedingly powerful, nudging Miss Behavin’ to and fro as we flew lower and lower. After several practice runs we headed back to Fox and had a great lunch at the little diner in the terminal.

All in all it was an intense but most exciting experience, I took some great footage with the Canon Gl-2 of our approaches which I will edit together and upload here to the site very soon.Jeff has about 3 days and a wake up before he departs on his adventure. Everyone here at the control center is confident that he will have the time of his life and be back with stories and pictures unscathed and happy as ever ……

Confidently’

Kenny