David Brodbeck wrote:

>Not to mention jet fuel.  Pilots don't call turbine-powered aircraft "oil
>burners" for nothing. :)
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Interesting you mention this.

In my aviation days one of the things that would show up on aeronautical
navigation charts was the location of patterns supper-imposed over a
geographical area that were known as "Oil burner routes". One stayed out
of those areas when they were "hot" or active, and there were ways to
find out . Oil burner routes were practice run areas that allowed the
military to conduct flight excersises in so that in the even of war or
other need, the pilots and aircraft trained in those areas could just
pick themselves up and super-impose their route exactly in another
geographical location in the world. There was no learning curve. This
process allowed pilots to train at home, yet be ready for instant
deployment elsewhere without training delays.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL driver