RC-12
F-16July 06
We flew again tonight and nothing was special until we came in for a landing. The weather was great and we did a visual approach. As we were about 4 miles out, ATC cleared two blackhawks to cross over the runway on their way out of Balad. At about 50 feet from landing at night, we flew into their dust cloud that they kicked up. We couldn't see anything. We didn't have time to go around and we couldn't see therunway. We just held the attitude we had in a couple of seconds we hitthe runway and taxied back to the hangar. I called ATC and told them there was a brown out at the approach end of the runway and they said,"sorry, we cleared those helicopters and I guess they kicked up the dust. Our bad". It is funny that even the most boring of flights can get very scary very quickly.
We flew again tonight and nothing was special until we came in for a landing. The weather was great and we did a visual approach. As we were about 4 miles out, ATC cleared two blackhawks to cross over the runway on their way out of Balad. At about 50 feet from landing at night, we flew into their dust cloud that they kicked up. We couldn't see anything. We didn't have time to go around and we couldn't see therunway. We just held the attitude we had in a couple of seconds we hitthe runway and taxied back to the hangar. I called ATC and told them there was a brown out at the approach end of the runway and they said,"sorry, we cleared those helicopters and I guess they kicked up the dust. Our bad". It is funny that even the most boring of flights can get very scary very quickly.
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