Alice

If this is already flight 19 of the day and the other flight only took 45 minutes, this is like kind of a nuisance.

It's a short exercise.

We're not talking about some training exercise that takes hours.

This is a training exercise that you can get done and then you're off to go drink or do anything else.

Right.

This is not an all day affair.

Which is really interesting, right?

Because it's only the second leg of this triangle.

So we're not talking about fatigue, you know, an hour in when they're flying out in the Pacific.

It is many more hours.

And so we're not talking about necessarily fatigue.

It's still good weather.

This may change soon, but it's still daylight.

And all they're doing is doing the next leg.

This is a math problem.

This is the Pythagorean theorem right here in action.

You always asked, didn't you?

What am I going to do with the Pythagorean theorem when I learned it?

This dead reckoning and not becoming, you know, flight 19 dead, not reckoning, not dead, not reckoning dead.

So around 345, Lieutenant Robert F. Cox, another flight instructor preparing to complete the same flight training, received an unidentified transmission.