{"id":6765,"date":"2022-05-31T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=6765"},"modified":"2022-05-30T11:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T18:00:50","slug":"flying-into-santa-rosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2022\/05\/flying-into-santa-rosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying into Santa Rosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6767\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-2-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-2-768x1158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-2.jpg 1019w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re taking a flight to go visit lovely Santa Rosa, California, you will likely be going to the former Santa Rosa Army Airfield, which has long since been rebranded the Charles M. Schulz -Sonoma County Airport. My brother (recently retired as Congress&#8217;s expert on military aviation &#8211; yes, I come from an interesting family) shared with me the image that you see here: a Federal Aviation Administration approach plate for the airport. It contains a wide variety of information that could be useful in flight navigation, including reporting points used to identify when an aircraft is getting close to the field. While you may be familiar with the unique three-letter code that each airport has, you may be less familiar with the five-digit codes assigned to these reporting points.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at these points:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PIGPN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6768\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PIGPN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s PIGPN!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/LUSEE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6769\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/LUSEE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks like you can go into a holding pattern around LUSEE.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/WDSTC-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6770\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/WDSTC-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s an intersection at WDSTC! (I&#8217;m not sure that I&#8217;d rely on WDSTC when one is seeking a stable flight path.)<\/p>\n<p>Someone, obviously, was having a bit of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re taking a flight to go visit lovely Santa Rosa, California, you will likely be going to the former Santa Rosa Army Airfield, which has long since been rebranded the Charles M. Schulz -Sonoma County Airport. My brother (recently retired as Congress&#8217;s expert on military aviation &#8211; yes, I &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}