A day at work:

[ppragman]

Here's some pictures from the daily grind I love my job.

Here's Fire Island, where we carry over people for the windfarm project. Also Fire Island is the Strip just east of ANC VOR

Departing Tyonek

Just a cool picture of the sled.

 

[ASpilot2be]

Awesome pictures Pat:rawk:

A smidgen bit large though.

 

[ppragman]

Awesome pictures Pat:rawk:

A smidgen bit large though.

My camera is actually really tiny, so they appear large. (read: I don't know how to format.)

 

[ASpilot2be]

My camera is actually really tiny, so they appear large. (read: I don't know how to format.)

Ah, if you upload to photobucket.com, then they are automatically resized to a viewable size.

 

[OhioStatePilot]

Holy picture size batman! I still had a good bit of scrolling to do on my widescreen monitor!

 

[mavsfan31]

What exactly do you do?

 

[ppragman]

What exactly do you do?

VFR Part 135 in Alaska / College student.

 

[SFCC/UND]

someone like big things I don't know how you like landing on gravel. Did that one time and it wasn't a pleasurable experience.

 

[ppragman]

someone like big things I don't know how you like landing on gravel. Did that one time and it wasn't a pleasurable experience.

Do it everyday, in fact, I like it better than landing on pavement.

 

[mavsfan31]

VFR Part 135 in Alaska / College student.

Gotcha.

That looks like a lot of fun actually.

 

[Swen]

Good share, just alot of scrolling.anic:

 

[c172captain]

I hope to one day say that I got to land on gravel

 

[coa787]

Why are those photos so tiny? I can barely see them!

In the future, make sure you enlarge your pics so that I can see them better, okay?





























Hehe, nice photos, man.

 

[PA-44typed]

Any way to make them bigger? kinda hard to see

 

[esa17]

I'm filled with a mix of emotions ranging from envy....to...well....envy.

 

[JA Yawd Bwoy]

Great pics! bit to big though, better bigger than hard to see small haha

 

[PICPaul]

Making me really homesick....

 

[t-cart]

Nice pictures Pat. Thanks for posting them.

 

[Xcaliber]

I'm just curious, why (or how, rather) does your prop look so good if you're going off of gravel all the time? Our Caravan's props gets chewed up just doing line patrol. I was kind of surprised to see yours in such good condition, lol

 

[ppragman]

I'm just curious, why (or how, rather) does your prop look so good if you're going off of gravel all the time? Our Caravan's props gets chewed up just doing line patrol. I was kind of surprised to see yours in such good condition, lol

You've gotta hold the nose off, taxi slowly with stick all the way back, and make incredibly gentle power adjustments. Ohh, and btw, no runups on gravel if you can help it, and park into the wind. As soon as you park tailed into the wind when you start up you'll put rocks through the prop continuously after startup. Also, every takeoff of gravel is an extra soft field (e.g. as soon as you have the power too, pull the nose wheel a couple of inches off of the ground), and with every landing you hold the nose off as long as possible.

In my opinion, however, the leading factor doesn't have that much to do with technique, the vast majority of debris going through the prop is caused by rocks thrown forward by the tires, now if you look at our tires, we've got mudflaps. It cuts down on a lot of the debris being kicked around. I still try to be pretty gentle on the gravel though.

Btw, what is line patrol?