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Key Takeaways:

  • During a pre-flight briefing, a NOTAM was issued about a rocketry club firing rockets near Schaumburg, IL.
  • A pilot humorously compared this local activity to North Korean missile launches, leading to two minutes of laughter from the briefer.
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The following was an exchange between a friend and a pre-flight briefer last weekend. The briefer got to the NOTAMS and there was one for a rocketry club near Schaumburg, IL…

Briefer : … and Schaumburg has a warning that they’ll be firing rockets.

My Friend: Man! First it’s North Korea, now Schaumburg!

It took the briefer about two minutes to stop laughing enough to continue the briefing.

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