Jonathan Howard
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So they were like, you can't fly in there.
I'm like, well, look, I'm here, State Guard.
I'm also here with aerial recovery.
I need to get in there because we're pushing in.
Plus, we already had an aerial recovery ground team there on the ground who was actually meeting with the mayor of Lake Lure.
So Charlie asked him, he goes, well, what altitude can we fly at?
He goes, I don't know.
And we're like, what do you mean?
You put the TFR up, like, can we fly over it?
Like, what can we do?
He's just like, I don't know.
And then he really started pushing them hard.
And he was like, okay, you guys can fly in there.
I'll give you like a squat code that'll allow you, but you can't land in there.
And I'm like, well, yeah, I know I'm in a fixed-wing airplane.
I can't land.
It's not a rotor.
And he's just like, okay, just don't land there.
But you could just tell he didn't know what was going on.
We didn't do the helicopter ride that day, but right after that, we drove in.