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Winter Reading Suggestion

Do you use a Bluetooth device?

Then read about the inventor: "The most beautiful woman in the world."

With help from her composer, George Antheil.

 

 

A biography of Hedwig Kiesler (Hedy Lamarr).

Doubleday New York November 29, 2011

ISBN 978-0385534383

272 pages

$26.95 list ($0.099/page) $16.47 Amazon ($0.060/page)

 


 

Potomac TRACON Tour

Wednesday Afternoon, February 15.

Maximum of 20 guests

Must be US citizen

 
   

Tail

Number

Confirmed

Attendance

for 2/15

Method of

travel from

39N

Park at

 

Travel

from

KHEF

to TRACON

via

1

2

3

Bennett, Michael

Hasan, Nadeem

Taylor, Stephen

N4757T

Skylane 182R

Yes Fly

Dulles

Aviation

 

Crew van

arranged

by FBO

 

4

5

6

Chen, James

Denny, Donald

Schirmer, Ernest

N817VR

Bonanza V35

7

8

Gazdowicz, Benjamin

Stephens, Paul

N96943

Skylane 182Q

9            
10      

 

   
11            
12            
13            
14            
15            

 

Click on this link to register for the tour: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BQMD8GC

 

Manassas Airport AirNav

http://www.airnav.com/airport/KHEF

 

Dulles Aviation

http://www.dullesaviation.com/

 

TRACON suggested routing (if available)

Altitude 2,500 feet, east side of KIAD

(have west side of KIAD ready as alternate)

Contact Potomac APC on 132.775

Enter via Wooly Gate

HUSEL intersection

TRING intersection

POJDA intersection

 

 

 

Potomac Consolidated TRACON ("Vint Hill")

3699 MacIntosh Drive

Warrenton, VA  20187

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/tracon/pct/directions/

 

Located off Virginia State Route 215

1.5 miles southeast of U.S. Route 29

(40 miles southwest of Washington, DC)

230 Miles from 39N

4 hours drive time without allowance for rush-hour traffic

 

Nearest airport is Manassas, VA (KHEF)

166 NM straight-line miles from 39N

 

 

 

Links

http://www.paft-nj.org/PAFT_PHOTOS_AUG_3_2009_TRACON_TOUR.htm

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/tracon/pct/mapsFrequency/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Control_Center


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