Hello Guys.

 

I am a pilot based out of a Commercial US airport. I have made friends with one of the tower controllers. He is a super nice guy and when I am in town, he texts me when any interesting or high profile flights come through. (USAF F15 Flight of 4: touch and go and approach practices last week!)

 

Anyway, for those of you who are unfamiliar with flight ops, in the US and most other countries, there is something called a Flight Progress Strip. This is sent to a special printer in the tower or enroute facility. There are strips for arrivals, departures, and enroute aircraft that pass through a certain facility. It contains information like AC Type, Routing, ALT, DEP & ARR Airports, etc.

 

On a couple occasions he has given me flight strips for a flight that I was operating. I see no problem with this because the info is publicly available online of you just look on somewhere like flightaware to track an aircraft that I am operating.

 

Well, he gave me a neat gift of an AF1 flight strip. The flight was already completed by the time he gave me the strip so it isn't like a had private information...at least i don't think. I would love to show this off to other pilots or on a forum like this. However, I don't want the controller to get in trouble and I don't want to get in trouble myself, especially since there is no malice intended. It is just very cool.

 

This strip was given to me a couple years ago, at the time, the day after AF1 passed through the airport.

 

What do you think?

 

I might post an edited picture on here so that you can see what it looks like without giving away any information.

 

 

Wow, great, that would be framed and displayed in my "cockpit" for sure. Are you taking bids..?

Haha - No i don't think so. Pretty unique so I think I'll hold onto it for now. ^_^

Yup, supercool, thanks for sharing!

He was saving fuel that day and taking the "little" 757

...Yep. Only cost taxpayers 1 billion dollars that time...**

 

**Disclaimer: Total Bull Hockey. I have no idea ho much it cost.

 

Speaking of great cost...before he flew in, three C-17s came with Marine One, the motorcade vehicles, and the support team inside. I have some really bad cell phone pictures of this. I will circle the helicopter so that you can kind of not see it.

 

 

 

 

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The Man Himself:

 

 

I prefer the 757 over the VC-25 so that is very cool. Even more valuable then if it was the VC-25 I would think because it is not used as often.

 

We use the 757s in New Zealand as well and it is a kick &@($* little plane, great power and performance for a tubeliner. Here is a shot of one of ours down in Antartica:

 

 

Cheers

The 727 is my favorite airplane the 757 is second after I had to ride the jumpseat breathing on the captain for 6 hours!

Very Cool Shot Matthew!

 

I have got quite a lot of friends there in NZ. One of my friends in Dunedin was visiting just a couple months ago and said how once he was on a domestic commercial flight and sat a couple rows behind the Governor General (Like the US President for those of you who don't know). He only had a couple of body guards, and that's it. How different it is between the US and most every where else!

He only had a couple of body guards, and that's it. How different it is between the US and most every where else!

 

This is true....Our Government Buildings are protected by closed circuit television and that is about it.

 

Our police still don't carry guns and laws won't allow them to. If the need a gun they have to call it in or get one from trunk of a police cruiser. Extremely rare does a police require a firearm here (unless your Kim Dotcom :lol: )

Our police still don't carry guns and laws won't allow them to. If the need a gun they have to call it in or get one from trunk of a police cruiser. Extremely rare does a police require a firearm here.

I'm not even going to start explaining how armed the Northern Irish police are.

I doubt it's authentic. Air Force One's callsign is A1 in the ATC system, not AF1.

I doubt it's authentic. Air Force One's callsign is A1 in the ATC system, not AF1.

 

Eh, I've been in the TRACON before and it was on the tube as AF1.

Speaking of great cost...before he flew in, three C-17s came with Marine One, the motorcade vehicles, and the support team inside.

 

I don't live very far from Obama and feel the house shaking from these things flying low and slow in formation. Still pretty cool to see them. Was actually surprised how often he comes home.

 

On the topic of great cost, did you guys hear about his 4 million dollar trip to Hawaii before the fiscal cliff talks and voting takes place? I'm not sure what that number includes, but I'm sure a majority of it is logistical expenses.

. Extremely rare does a police require a firearm here (unless your Kim Dotcom :lol: )

 

. . . . or when the US FBI is overhead managing your police raid. :blink: