The Aviation Magazine No 57 Special Edition 2018 Volume 9 Issue 4 | Page 36

We had plenty of opportunity to ask questions and clarifications during the brief-
ing, but we will not go into those.
After the briefing we met Christian, who helped our access to the base and he men-
tioned that he will take over the hosting in the afternoon, as Tango would have to
leave for an important officer's meeting. Shortly after that we were taken by a
minibus to another building close to the control tower, where the pilots change into
their flight suit and gear, and where aircraft are assigned to the pilots for their
missions. Here Tango picked up his helmet, flight gear and the available aircraft
for our photo-shoot with him. He drove us out to the hardened shelter and apron
where that F-16 was parked. Each F-16 is housed in it is own shelter quite a dis-
tance from each other.
After our photo-shoot, we drove back to the change facility, and it was approaching
noon, time for lunch. In order not to miss the take offs of several F-16s, we just
grabbed our ham and cheese sandwiches and we ate them on the way to a space
between the runways, for our photography. Our spot was between the two parallel
runways 08R/26L and 08L/26R (the main runway).