Exciting Approach

Nark said:
I miss Alaska!
If its too low for IFR fo VFR!!!



I think you might be referring to the Juneau to Gustavus run they do in the summer months.
It's 25 or so miles straight shot, but you can't do that in a 737. Closer to 50 miles in order to go around Couverton Point.
I think Capt Chaos has raced, and beaten the Alaska on the same run using a Saratoga once or twice. At least that what he tells the girls...
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AS has that JNU-GST run on a company VFR plate, as well as the WRG-PSG run. Keeps the feds happy that they are still on a charted procedure, but being out of radar coverage I have seen more than one long long long down wind/tour up Glacier Bay.
 
Nark said:
I miss Alaska!
If its too low for IFR fo VFR!!!



I think you might be referring to the Juneau to Gustavus run they do in the summer months.
It's 25 or so miles straight shot, but you can't do that in a 737. Closer to 50 miles in order to go around Couverton Point.
I think Capt Chaos has raced, and beaten the Alaska on the same run using a Saratoga once or twice. At least that what he tells the girls...
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"S turns, 3,000. Oh, and 249 knots." :D
 
dasleben said:
Very cool, those look like a pod strike waiting to happen with the upgraded motors. :)

Actually flew with a guy last year who'd been on the 707 at ATA, old straight pipes. That guy could fly a washing machine. :D
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They totally are. IIRC, you are limited to a bank angle of 4 degrees in three point attitude or 7 degrees in a T/O/flare attitude before you could potentially drag a pod, and it would actually be the inboard that would strike. More amazingly, I think it happened only once to someone that I knew of in the several years I flew it.
 
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