as we were airborne, then mark safaville and dan raisin worked with the air traffic controllers. this is such a testament to the professionalism and abilities of the air traffic controllers there in potomac, because their job is to keep airplanes separated and keep them on routes which are kind of like roads in the sky and sequence them certain miles or minutes apart from each other. and in less than five minutes, they learned how to speak military fighter pilot to us as if they were a combat controller. because saf and raisin said, all right, there is a navigation aid on the airport called a vortac. if you can imagine 1600 radials coming out of t you take those radials and then you take the mileage off those radials. so let's just call it bull's eye, all right? follow me on this, just call it bull's eye, and if there is someone who happened to be on that vortac, you call bull's eye and if you're 30 miles away, call 0930 for 30 and 9,000 feet. instantaneously, these guys got it. they adapted and changed how they had been trained to operate in sequencing airplanes and separating t