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Crop Duster said:
So the "Eskimo NDB" is when you're scudding it 20 feet off the deck, loaded up with ice searching for the airstrip and seeing nothing but frozen willows. You've got no idea where you are when all of a sudden all the heads in the back turn slowly 180 degrees fore to aft looking at a spot on the ground that you just overflew. That was the airport. They all knew where you were...now you do, too.
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You got my mad respect, but I'm so, so glad those days are gone.
 
Roger Roger said:
Nice thing is its right down the runway. Not nice thing is, well, it's Skagway so turbulence and windshear and cold as balls while turning the airplane.
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I landed in 40 last shift. That was fine and dandy. Then came the taxiing. It really feels like it wants to tip over. When I was in Bethel last it was 0 and gusting over 30. That was cold!
 
Crop Duster said:
So the "Eskimo NDB" is when you're scudding it 20 feet off the deck, loaded up with ice searching for the airstrip and seeing nothing but frozen willows. You've got no idea where you are when all of a sudden all the heads in the back turn slowly 180 degrees fore to aft looking at a spot on the ground that you just overflew. That was the airport. They all knew where you were...now you do, too.
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Hahaha. The boxes dont make good NDBs.
 
z987k said:
Are they?
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Well, around here they are anyway...and even where aircraft aren't as well equipped as southeast guys can now can get a handheld GPS or a tablet with some sort of moving map on it for a couple hundred bucks. So at least you know when you passed the airport without watching the passengers.
 
Capt. Chaos said:
A mechanic I talked to agrees.. According to him the Tinkerbell the gremlins started after they did some touch up painting and gave her a breast reduction.
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I never thought I would ever see 'tinker bell' and 'breast reduction' in the same sentence. Was the reduction to reduce drag?
 
Roger Ditto said:
Usually when I work on a car, it involves lots of mechanics words, big hammers, and cheater bars. And multiple trips to the parts store for stuff I didn't realize I would need. I think my record is 3 parts store runs for one project.
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Hammers: The technical term is "Impact Maintenance."

The trick is knowing where to hit it. A&Ps know.
 
Swapped airplanes before going to Yuma one afternoon over the summer. The outgoing crew pre-programmed the FMS for us.
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The sunset was phenomenal last night.
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z987k said:
Are they?
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For the most part they are. Out West anyways. On low weather days in Nome there are very few specials, and pretty much everybody is going IFR. Even out of Bethel with all the Caravans and most airports have approaches so everybody is going IFR. Talking with the Oddball pilot he was mentioning that companies are really not wanting to hire old timers because they are more likely to push limits.
 
ASpilot2be said:
For the most part they are. Out West anyways. On low weather days in Nome there are very few specials, and pretty much everybody is going IFR. Even out of Bethel with all the Caravans and most airports have approaches so everybody is going IFR. Talking with the Oddball pilot he was mentioning that companies are really not wanting to hire old timers because they are more likely to push limits.
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Besides even if you are pounding it out in the crap VFR these days youre nuts if you don't have some sort of moving map GPS with you.
 
ASpilot2be said:
Exactly. Our entire fleet has GMX200s, our CASAs have that plus dual Garmin 530s.
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We have 600s driven by a 530/430 stack and the 600 has the synthetic vision but its still not good enough to go flying around under terrain while imc.
 
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