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From: Howard G
Date: 2024 Aug 9, 15:17 -0700
Hi David
Working with any ship, you got to be in radio contact 1st, or, have a pre-arranged schedule.
In all books I have read no mention of smoke.
However, having said that if it is done on a scheduled time, as I pressume "produce smoke" uses fuel oil and like after burner gobbles fuel, notwithstanding they were late getting airborne and there was big confusion over timing of radio schedule.
Again, just extraordinary poor planning. Seems more appropriate to approach at early dawn and 2 hrs before sunrise, twilight being very short in the tropics, fire flares every 5 mins and stay high until you ident the island. Uses less fuel.
Again lack of planning, or just pure dumb ignorance of trying to find a speck of and island in the pacific using astro in a poorly setup, eqipped platform.
Howard G
