An accident waiting to happen!

Just curious why are so many of your posts are about dangerous events in aviation?

There are other interesting topics to talk about...
 
jhugz said:
We take off not knowing if we will make the destination a lot too. Depends on the actual winds, burns, time to climb, etc. It's really not that uncommon in our line of work. We always have outs though if we can't make it. I've landed with about 600 lbs in a metro before, which is legal with no alternates.
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What's the fuel burn on those? For me that's over an hour and a half of fuel in cruise. If I can't find an alternate within 300+nm, that's some crappy weather.
 
z987k said:
What's the fuel burn on those? For me that's over an hour and a half of fuel in cruise. If I can't find an alternate within 300+nm, that's some crappy weather.
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500-600/hr in the flight levels depending on power setting. about 800/hr below 10k.
 
FlyingPoke said:
Well, being over land, there's a whole host of options en route for him to put it down if he needs to. As far as getting there and there being a need to go to an alternate, you should already have the info on weather/operating hours/fuel reserves according to burn and calculated, to make a good decision on continuing or heading to plan B.

Just did my first trip to Hawaii, then Fiji and now Australia in the G200... I've learned a lot on planning and equal time points in this trip!
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Did you stopped anywhere between Fiji and Australia?
 
N519AT said:
Oh great, I can't wait till someone posts about my short approach in the Dash that was well within our SOPs being "an accident waiting to happen".

This thread right here is all the more reason to block tail numbers.
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If that's the case, I should be dead!
 
FlyingPoke said:
No, did have to stop between Hawaii and Fiji in Pagp Pago due to incredibly high ISA numbers. Wish we'd have stayed in Pago Pago, scenery was incredible.
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The "scenery" or scenery?


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N519AT said:
The "scenery" or scenery?


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Haha, the scenery. All I got to see was a bunch of Samoan rampers, unfortunately.
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A friend flying Int'l freight used to have several-day layovers in Pago Pago.

After the first time, he was bored. "I don't golf, I don't fish, I'm happily married, I'm flying so I can't drink, I'm not a big reader, and there's no wi-fi."

Poor baby! :rolleyes:
 
Stone Cold said:
Ugh...I'm not even going to get into this with you. Happy New Year.
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Indeed, some other time, happy 2013. My point more revolves around the fact that one only needs a radio and some binoculars to render BARR less useful--plus it isn't that hard to drive around under a call sign ("ONE PERCENT FLIGHT 264").

"Stop that, it's silly!"


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