You have no idea, 2 hours before plan departure go over the plan route and some caution spots. Now get on your pressure suit, to waiting bread truck go to the barn, climb the stand get in stand in front of seat hook you up, then you sit down, give signal going west start #1 inject TEB in gives green glow move throttle to idle position, same set up for # 2 pretty easy for starting. Now double check everything over closed your canopy, blink taxi light slowly come out of the barn, once out doesn't matter Astro Navigation Immediately comes on doesn't matter if daylight or night will track the stars withing 20 seconds or quicker. Now move to your run-up area spool both engines to 1.245, look at egt and fuel flow, looks good bring engines back to idle, move to your departure runway. Now look at the clock want on time out of here, move both throttles forward, lift throttles in to after burner mode, one burner lights first usually # 2 acft moves rights then # 1 lights your at about 150 to 160 knots and started to really smoke. Gently pull nose up you are feel gear has left the pavement, put the gear handle up. Now start you climb out take up to mach 1.6 skin is heat up, flip position switch where is my older KC 135Q as I call old smokey I slow down and meet up with my buddy, you know the drill I am low on fuel so I want full deal, once hooked up tells Homer only 1/2 tank available, next tank 5 m off to the right! Eeek So off to next tank another older KC 135Q go thru the same drill, done with that I come up on his port side drop down couple thousand feet both engines in full ab mode climb to 85K the faster I go the less fuel I use roughly 35 m a minute. Remember I am driving the "A" model!
