UPS MD-11 crash at SDF

Autothrust Blue said:
@Boris Badenov is hereby junior-assigned, even!
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Had this conversation with a C/A of a similar background a couple of days ago while we were watching Turkmenistan roll by. We agreed that we now suck and would probably crash if tasked with what seemed like an average day, back then.

If you caught me at the right time and place (say, getting ready to go to Shenzhen at 3:30 am), I might be willing to try it anyway, though...
 
Boris Badenov said:
Had this conversation with a C/A of a similar background a couple of days ago while we were watching Turkmenistan roll by. We agreed that we now suck and would probably crash if tasked with what seemed like an average day, back then.

If you caught me at the right time and place (say, getting ready to go to Shenzhen at 3:30 am), I might be willing to try it anyway, though...
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I could almost certainly get *that* turboprop from my background into the air, but I can’t promise I would do all the switchology exactly correct.

Oddly enough I rode on a CRJ-900 the other day and had a brief but nice chat about the thing with the captain after, who related that a lot of us forlorn-looking double-breasted blazer types commented they missed the airplane and the flying which, in the case of that one, is actually true.

Everything else that came with it I do not miss at all, however.
 
Richman said:
While I love all things from the shop of Olive Ann, a plane that has “accelerate-slow” charts vs stop left me scratching my head.
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Over beers, nothing is more my favorite conversation than the 99 problems that Beech gave me….
Out of 26 unique models (i had to check the log for this), that Ive flown thus far, it is, and likely will remain, the only abomination that I never want to touch again. I loathed every minute of the 504.4 I spent in that airplane…but I am damn glad I had them *shrug* Im a masochist
 
I once flew my “destination” aircraft for quite a few years, so I get it. I hope you guys (and gals) get to fly her again.
 
Sculprit said:
The straight wing 737-900. Come on everyone knows this.
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Damn you’re good! Haha

No, it was the original/legacy Hornet. The plane that i had posters on my bedroom wall of, as a kid. It was new and exciting back then, born just a couple years before me, and initially operational during my birth year. And there is probably a decent likelihood i actually flew the exact aircraft in one of my posters, decades later. I’ve enjoyed everything since, even *gasp* the 737 (mostly the MAXXX), but you never forget your first date to the dance. She was an old cougar by the time i flew her, but those of us who did in my timeframe were somewhat small in number and we took a lot of pride in it. She was less user-friendly than the fancy new Super Hornet, and certainly involved a lot of in-flight emergencies comparatively. But she was well-built and a workhorse, if maybe a bit short on gas, which taught a young single-seat guy a lot about fuel conservation, having a plan B and plan C, and all that sort of stuff. Not all of that applies to the MD guys, as that airplane sounds a lot more elegant from your descriptions, but i imagine there are parallels in the pride all our guys here had flying her.
 
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///AMG said:
Damn you’re good! Haha

No, it was the original/legacy Hornet.
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You had posters of a Hudson Hornet as a kid?

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Skåning said:
Hopefully you have dreams about boobies or something more normal and it’s not just about airplanes all the time
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Oh yeah. Actually I do not regularly dream about work or flying.

This one happened in the middle of my last charter trip that was in the process of disintegrating, and ran into a whole additional day off, jointly due to some irresponsible planning and the U.S. ATC system being on its ass because this season of Road Rules is sheer misery.
 
Skåning said:
Eww yuck
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I'm probably headed that way at some point, just because it's the airplane I haven't flown yet and it really does have the best flying up where I live. I'll go grind up and down the coast and go to Juneau and Mexico seasonally, thanks. I'm not dying to do more Hawaii 2.5-days, as much as I like being out there.
 
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