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headquarters for approval and subsequent
publication with the FAA, however, the
two routes required a flight check that
would be flown as a practice tactical sortie, to confirm their perameters.
Once again, I was handed the keys to
an aircraft, with no questions being asked,
for the purpose of making it all happen.
Shortly after takeoff, I cancelled IFR and
proceeded by pilotage to the start point of
the first route, at the northern tip of the
thumb of Michigan. Shortly thereafter, I
glanced over the canopy rail and observed
an entire section of fenced land where
more than 500 head of cattle were grazing.
I decided to put to the test the possibility of animals stampeding because of jet
noise. Yanking the jet around for alignment, I dropped down to 200 feet agl and
pushed up the power to pass over the field
at more than 400 knots-while engaging
the afterburner for added affect. As the
ground streaked by in a blur, I pulled up
into a barrel roll at the far end of the fence
line and tilted my head back over my left

YANKING THE JET AROUND, I DROPPED DOWN
TO 200 FEET AGL AND PUSHED UP THE POWER
TO PASS OVER THE FIELD AT MORE THAN 400
KNOTS.
shoulder to look at where I had just been.
The sight reminded me of an old-time
Western movie with a large number of
buffaloes charging across an open plain.
Already a small trail of dust was distinguishable behind what appeared to be the
entire herd, hell-bent on going someplace-anyplace-en masse. The initial
thought of this entire horde breaching a
barbed-wire fence left me with the vision
of having to eat hamburger for the rest of
my life as the result of damages incurred.
Throughout the remainder of the flight
I dreaded the thought of what might await
me upon landing. The camouflaged paint
scheme of the airplane lacked sufficient
stealth to hide the perpetrator, and being
the sole aircraft flying from the squadron
that afternoon, it left no chance for claiming innocence. I fully expected the wing

commander to meet me at the aircraft and
strip me of my wings.
After stop-cocking the throttle in the
chocks and sheepishly entering flight
operations, I waited for the hammer to
fall, but it mysteriously never occurred.
Apparently the cattle were not so dumb as
to impale themselves upon a barbed-wire
fence, no matter what the fright-whether
it was caused by predators, lightning
strikes, helicopters, or even F-100s. And
the low-level military training routes that
were the reason for the cattle-herding
flight? They ultimately were approved and
charted-and appear to survive today, in
part if not in their entirety, as VR1628 and
VR1648.
Roland D. Schultz is a former airline pilot with
more than 30,000 flight hours in 51 years of flying.

WATCH OUT!
Military training routes
Ever notice those graphite
lines that create a spider
web as they crisscross a
sectional? These are military
training routes, or MTRs.
Similar to Victor airways,
the military uses MTRs as a
way to get from point A to
point B. But they can double
as high-speed training corridors. The routes are classified
by either VR, for visual route,
or IR for instrument route;
there's also a three- or fourdigit code. Four digits means
the route is entirely below
1,500 feet above the ground,
while three-digit routes
include at least one segment
above 1,500 feet. Regardless
of the designation, pilots
should think of crossing an
MTR like jaywalking across a
busy street.

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