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Where Trip 6 was was on the northwest leg of the Oakland range, not the northeast. Stead was headed for the sea, not Oakland, but for 35 minutes beyond the time he should have been over Oakland he had been convincing himself that his course was deflected by a side wind. At 4:16 he came...
Pilots have got on the wrong leg of a radio range before, but few have posed questions to their dispatchers like those that Pilot Stead now proceeded to ask. He wanted to know what was the engine's best manifold pressure to conserve...
Finally, at 3:03 a. m. Stead called Oakland, asked to be told where the north leg of the Fresno range intersected the northeast leg of the Oakland range...
Stead to Oakland: Definitely on northeast leg...
...seven radio ranges, their beams running in four quadrants, to guide him to Oakland. But at Medford, Stead had already made his first blunder. He failed to fill his gasoline tanks. From Medford, on instruments, against a heavy headwind and an hour behind schedule, he went down the south leg of the Fort Jones range, passed the Red Bluff localizer, reported that the Sacramento range was drowning out the Williams beam (which ground stations reported was operating without interference). Then, for almost an hour, Trip 6 was silent...