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Hmm, Jerry gets a week time out and Snow goes missing at the same time. Maybe Snow is Jerry's more informed alt??

He flew on the L1049's (Super Connie). Navy designation R7V-1. He was in Navy MATS VR-7, VR-21 and VRC-50, altho VRC-50 was a COD squardron with C-2 Greyhounds and he was not flight crew then.

Thanks Sluggo, That gage in on the upper part of the panel and fairly small, like Gregor said, they felt the pressure on their ears then the FE looked at the panel. I was on submarines, and when we popped the hatch you could definitly feel it on the ears. Not quite the same as what an aircraft would feel. As a side note, my dad was a FE on C-121's, C-118's and C-130's. He said that they would rais the cabin altitude and reduce the O2 bleed to put the passengers to sleep :-) Also Sluggo, Victor airways are not just for VFR, In a IFR 172, you will not be assigned to a Jet route, but assigned to a victor airway. But you knew that ;-)

Is there any indication of how much turbulence 305 encounterd? I was wondering if turbulence would cause the airstairs to bounce thus causing the pressure bump. Also, how big is the cabin altitude indicator on the flight engineers panel. Would the FE always be looking at the gage and would he notice any other jumps of the cabin pressure that would not noticy be felt by the ears? If not then cooper could be almost anywhere.

I have been lurking awhile and I see a common error in your view of the Seattle ARTCC (ZSE). You think there is one big radar antenna in Auburn Wa. In fact there is no radar antenna at Auburn. ZSE is broken up into many sectors, both high altitude and low altitude, I know there are many radar antennas that make up the ZSE coverage from the Canadian/Washington border to the north all the way down to northern California and east to Montana. They also cover the Northwestern corner of Nevada. I do not believe there is a one to one sector-to-radar. But one radar feeds many sectors. A long time ago I saw either a chart or document that had these radar locations. I did a quick/lame google search and did not find out any info, but I am sure it is out there. I also believe that both McChord and ZSE were tracking 305 and the Idents were just the controllers trying to verify which radar taget was 305, all an Ident does is cause the corosponding radar return to brighten, wheter or not the radar return has a data block or not. No I am not ATC, but have flow in the airspace.