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This was taken at 1625 hours EST and I was starting to think about
my approach procedures. I knew there would be lots of non-radio traffic of anything
from hotrod experimentals to paraplanes and didn't have a NOTAM nor approach procedures of
any kind. I figured I would get them on the radio but that didn't work out at all.
I heard a glider tow plane but nobody would respond to my requests. As I got
closer I saw a group of ultralights in formation on the downwind for 28 but that was all!
I dropped in a mile or so behind them and planned to follow them in.
When they executed a formation fly-by and started climbing out, I was puzzled and
debated to follow or go ahead and land in the grass where they flew over. I landed
as far down the grass on the approach end of 28 as I could and taxied up to a man with a
orange vest for futher instructions. He directed me across 3 grass runways and into
the tiedown area.
That formation flight I followed in? It was Nathaniel Halsmer's
missing man formation! God rest his soul.
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