From: lumpy@digitalcartography.com   
      
   miso@sushi.com wrote:   
   > Wouldn't seeing the airport be a matter of visually clearing the   
   > Papoose Rnage? I'd have to do the math, but at 15k for the plane, 8k   
   > for the mountain and 4.5k for the airport, I think it would be visible   
   > from near 95.   
      
   About 45 air miles from Mercury to Dreamland.   
   And with the base tucked up against the east   
   foothills of Papoose, I can't imagine being   
   able to see the runway(s) until you got   
   up pretty close.   
      
   The guys over at DLresort were guestimating   
   PLANET to be about 4-5 miles south of RWY 32,   
   inline with the runway(s). That really confuses   
   me too. The typical arrival is PLANET to PYRAMID.   
      
   If PLANET is only 4-5 mi south of the base, they   
   PYRAMID would have to be essentially at the base,   
   or maybe that other PYD that the DF guys found   
   northwest of the base.   
      
   You certainly wouldn't fly TO groom via a point   
   5 mi s/o the base, back to mercury.   
      
   Logical would be that Merc is Planet. Pyramid is   
   BTY060030.   
      
   Then that still leaves me confused about "field in sight".   
      
   I would say that ABBIE is the point that is 4-5 mi south   
   of the base.   
      
   PLANET = Mercury   
   PYRAMID = BTY060030   
   ABBIE = 36 51 20.08n,115 10 04.78w   
      
      
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