Stick and Rudder..

@UAL747400 : just spent some time researching the pilot. Got the DVDs on my Christmas Wish List

@Crop Duster : I'll be 43 when I stop aviating for Uncle Sam in 3 years. Then, it's back to GA full bore since I will have the time for proficiency then. Hoping to fill a niche in the KCOS Indepent CFI market that hasn't been filled yet. Not sure what that is yet, though.
 
TC_ABM said:
@UAL747400 : just spent some time researching the pilot. Got the DVDs on my Christmas Wish List

@Crop Duster : I'll be 43 when I stop aviating for Uncle Sam in 3 years. Then, it's back to GA full bore since I will have the time for proficiency then. Hoping to fill a niche in the KCOS Indepent CFI market that hasn't been filled yet. Not sure what that is yet, though.
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You should move... too bumpy in KCOS.
You might be aware that the academy came down to KCOS vs. SE Wisconsin. Lindbergh ultimately made the final decision when they sent him out to Springs to check it... He flew in on the one calm day of the year. Interesting to fly back to WI low level. You can fly over what should have been the academy site selection... The "Bong Recreation Area" (loaded name, right?). It's named after #1 US ace Richard Bong. What's wild is that you can see the outlines of a huge planned runway/taxiway complex in the middle of a marsh. Would make and awesome emergency divert for ORD arrivals via the Janesville 6.
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Well this thread got interesting fast. I love the flying up here.

I will say the amount of money put into the airplanes out here is astounding. The CAPSTONE program has really turned the safety record around. The other thing that I think has helped out the safety record out here in western Alaska is making new pilots sit right seat for a while before getting PIC time.
 
ASpilot2be said:
Well this thread got interesting fast. I love the flying up here.

I will say the amount of money put into the airplanes out here is astounding. The CAPSTONE program has really turned the safety record around. The other thing that I think has helped out the safety record out here in western Alaska is making new pilots sit right seat for a while before getting PIC time.
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When I was in AK, the number 1 FAA enforcement initiative was to ensure that the 135 bush pilots actually had pilots licenses. Not commercial licenses, mind you. Just any license.
Also, ded reckoning distances were measured in 6 packs.
Well, the first part is true. For most pilots anyway.
W&B calculation..."Does it fit in the plane?"
 
Crop Duster said:
When I was in AK, the number 1 FAA enforcement initiative was to ensure that the 135 bush pilots actually had pilots licenses. Not commercial licenses, mind you. Just any license.
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In some Alaska towns, the same guy that fixes snowmobiles will rebuild your Lycoming or Continental.
 
Crop Duster said:
When I was in AK, the number 1 FAA enforcement initiative was to ensure that the 135 bush pilots actually had pilots licenses. Not commercial licenses, mind you. Just any license.
Also, ded reckoning distances were measured in 6 packs.
Well, the first part is true. For most pilots anyway.
W&B calculation..."Does it fit in the plane?"
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Times have changed a lot since then.
Pilot Fighter said:
In some Alaska towns, the same guy that fixes snowmobiles will rebuild your Lycoming or Continental.
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Weeellll that guy might very well have an A&P and do both simply because he's found that someone who can fix machines of any type is invaluable out in the bush.
 
Roger Roger said:
Times have changed a lot since then.

Weeellll that guy might very well have an A&P and do both simply because he's found that someone who can fix machines of any type is invaluable out in the bush.
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Ja, That was my point.
 
ASpilot2be said:
Well this thread got interesting fast. I love the flying up here.

I will say the amount of money put into the airplanes out here is astounding. The CAPSTONE program has really turned the safety record around. The other thing that I think has helped out the safety record out here in western Alaska is making new pilots sit right seat for a while before getting PIC time.
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Capstone has been a big help for sure. Though there was a fatal CFIT in a Capstone phase 2 plane just last year. The NTSB final report was pretty...surfacey and there's a lot more that I have to say about it that I won't because I'm too closely involved there. The medallion foundation has some pretty good stuff too, as long as people are actually changing the way they operate not filling out a bunch of paperwork that makes them look safe.

Really the biggest change from talking to our resident Old Geezer (Jim W, the guy who lost a leg in a 206 wreck) is that now guys (at all the companies) are sitting out weather that they used to blast off into with no GPS, Capstone, often even without VORs in the plane (for all the good that would do around here).
 
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