Texasair

Sadly, you have been misinformed. The highest peak in North America is Mt. McKinley at 20,320'. Unless the Canadians have invaded Alaska and claimed this mountain for themselves, I think it's still in the United States. Sorry, I forgot about that tall mountain in Alaska.

The airplane is probably displaying Knots MPH and your GPS is probably showing Statute MPH. Knots are slower because a nautical miles is slightly longer than a statute mile. Your altitude differs because once an airplane gets above 18,000 feet they switch to what is called Flight Levels. They reset the altimeter to 29.92 inches of mercury. Since the all airplanes up here are using the same altimeter setting they can still maintain altitude separation but this does not show altitude above sea level. Since there are no mountains in the US above 18,000 feet this does not cause any problems. Another interesting note. Above Flight level 290 (approx. 29,000 feet) speeds change to Mach number for air traffic control purposes. An airplane will report or be assigned a speed of mach .76 for example. Hope this helps. Your friendly air traffic control geocacher.

Check out this guy's rant about a non-find. So the place has a no dog rule. Big deal. I have been to this cache and the people are very friendly. I've had a couple of no finds and I usually blame it on me having a bad day. Anyone else seen a ranting no find log? http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...2d-3e0e44bed525 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...6d-a0c3b23085c3

The first cache that I found did not have a pen or pencil. I did not have one with me either. I did have my digital camera and my wife took a picture in front of the cache location. I logged it as a find anyway (with the picture posted). To me a picture is as good as a log book entry.

I have seen a couple of neat virtual caches in cemtaries. Usually has you finding the grave of an interesting historic figure. In Colorado there is one that leads you to the grave of Alfred Packer. The only american convicted of cannibalism. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...65-ff0873741e2e

I'm glad I asked this question. I have learned quite a bit about caching. I had no idea that caches have actually been blown up by bomb squads. I have yet to hide my first one but I am leaning toward the clear plastic container. Unless I hide one up in the hills then I will probably us a tin or and ammo can. Thanks all Scott

A local cacher had an unpleasant (my opinion) experience with the local police department concerning their cache. The cache was hidden under a tree in a local park near an elementary school. It was an excellent cache by the way with lots of cool stuff and a couple of travel bugs. Someone saw a geocacher find the ammo box (with geocache stickers on the outside) cache, rummage through it and then replace it under the tree. This person called the police to report suspicious activity. The police responded to the location and luckily the cache owner saw the police arrive and went to speak to them. They did not really like the explaination of what geocaching is and one officer really did not like the ammo box hidden near a school. They even mentioned that they were about to call the bomb squad. I can see both sides to this issue, but it is too bad that the cache had to be removed. Anyone else heard of this type of problem?

Thanks, I was just curious about the guidlines. Scott

Just did a little more looking at "Electric Shavers" and he does have logged cache finds on the same days from different states. Logged finds in New York and Utah on the same day, Idaho and Massachusettss same day etc... Is this a reason for getting banned? Just curious. I know there is certain amount of honesty that has to be taken for granted here. I visited a cache in Oregon but did not get to sign the log. but I did send a photo of me at the location to the cache creator.

I was looking at this cache the other day (near Clarendon Texas, Saint's Roost N 34° 59.670 W 100° 54.623) and noticed that a user named "ELECTRIC SHAVERS" had logged 600 finds. I clicked to see his profile and noticed that has status is "banned user". He mentions that a member of his "crew" found this cache. Someone questioned his benchmark hunting claims in those forums. They noticed the he was claiming finds in multiple states on the same day. Is it dishonest to have a "team" logging finds under one users name? If not is should be. To me caching should be an individual or family effort. I don't see how you can claim finds that your friends locate for you. Sorry for the long rant. Thanks Scott

I finally found a link to make my FAA Benchmark picture viewable. Sorry for the trouble.

I found this benchmark at our local airport. I cannot find it in the NGS database and don't know where to look in the FAA website to find out what it is. location is: N35 13.903 W101 42.372 Can anyone help. If the photo does not work try typing http://briefcase.yahoo.com/atcvector click on the photo album and then look at the file called FAAbenchmark. Thanks for the help [This message was edited by Texasair on September 08, 2003 at 02:24 PM.] [This message was edited by Texasair on September 08, 2003 at 02:26 PM.] [This message was edited by Texasair on September 08, 2003 at 02:27 PM.] [This message was edited by Texasair on September 08, 2003 at 04:17 PM.]

Try typing this link. http://briefcase.yahoo.com/atcvector Look in the Yahoo Photo album for a file named FAA Benchmark. Sorry, I thought that the link would work.

Here is a picture of the FAA Benchmark I found. It is dated 12/27/60.FAA Benchmark

Seeing as I work at the airport and have an airport and FAA ID I don't think I will have any problem taking pictures. The location of this marker will make it very difficult for anybody else to get to. Sorry I cannot escort people onto airport property. The benchmark is visible from a nearby parking lot.

I found a FAA Benchmark at our local airport. It is inside the airport fence and therefore not available to the public. It has the installation date (1960) and it's altitude above sea level. Does this count as a found benchmark? It looks just like the NGS mark but says Federal Aviation Agency (before agency was changed to Administration). Thanks