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Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • A pre-flight briefer informed a pilot about a NOTAM for a local rocketry club near Schaumburg, IL, indicating they would be firing rockets.
  • The pilot made a humorous comparison, joking about Schaumburg "firing rockets" in a similar vein to international missile launches.
  • The briefer found the joke highly amusing, laughing for several minutes before continuing the briefing.
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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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