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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (92561)	4/16/2011 5:26:55 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 149317

I actually have some relevant experience here! As a young pot dealer in Texas, I occasionally would help bring in loads of pot smuggled up from Mexico in light planes, or rig the planes for the trip down. We'd run a double line of "lantern" type battery lanterns to mark the "strip" (usually a farm field, sometimes a rural road) when we heard the plane's engine at about 3-4 am. The pilot would land the plane, no control tower needed. We'd transfer the load to pickups with campers, take the extra fuel drums out, vaccumn up all the loose weed, put the seats back in, and get the pilot back airborne and on his flight plan before dawn! I'd get about 10 lbs. for my work, and a tremendously GREAT feeling of getting one past the man! I'll just bet the controllers caught sleeping were depending on having the radio turned up to wake them whenever a plane squawked at them. I used to do a similar thing when I had a graveyard shift job as a hotel engineer. I'd sleep in an unturned room, with my voice pager turned up to wake me if the desk needed me for anything. My watch alarm would wake me before the day shift.