DE727UPS
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Wow, that's a lot of 72 F/E time. I sat sideways for 4 years but bet I didn't have that much. We just didn't fly long legs back in those days.
Ameriflight Beechcraft 99 crash
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ahw01
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How much BE 99 time did John Moktadier have?
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It was the workhorse of the fleet at the time. Short ones, long ones, Space Ghost Coast to Coast ones. Everything.
mightynimbus
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and AVIS,
they must have a 300,000 sq ft warehouse just outside Council Bluff Iowa,
that is still 2/3rds full of tractor feed continuous form duplicate receipt paper
Skåning
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At ExpressJet one of us would have to get “the paperwork” and it was usually at a gate printer. Dot matrix, super loud, you know the kind. I always did find it oddly satisfying folding it hot dog style and ripping off the sides in one clean go. Kinda like when the scissors slide on wrapping paper.
You’d always try to do it fast before a passenger came along to ask where baggage claim or the toilets were.
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Kingairer
'Tiger Team' Member
Very interesting. OP said this was Ameriflight, is that somehow connected to Wiggins?
Inverted
mmmmmm wine
Ameriflight bought Wiggins (and I think Alpine) at around he same time, several years ago. Maybe 2015ish? It is an AMF 99 and it was operated as Wiggins.
That 72 plumbing time though. (I was born too late)
GroundPilot
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ahw01
Well-Known Member
Not in that report :-/
Itchy
Well-Known Member
The first 5 seconds. Not too much to see, however it is interesting. I could detect zero PT6 sounds.
Boots2Wings
Just happy to be here.
Boots2Wings
Just happy to be here.
Looks like the hatch peeled back, very similar where I've seen it go when in flight. Ironically enough, the hatch in the video appears to be one of the ones they install AFTER it’s already been ripped open in flight once. That specific one iirc tends to not depart the plane entirely, but rather flip up and wedge in the position the footage shows.
Any update on the pilot?
Murdoughnut
Well sized member
Airport Director at :55 is my client
ZapBrannigan
If it ain’t a Boeing, I’m not going. No choice.
Tell me you leave the autopilot on until 500 feet on every single landing without saying you leave the autopilot on until 500 feet on every single landing.
Wiggins was always straight freight, but in the before times, they at least were managed (Mx & Crews) pretty well. You can kinda suss that simply by looking at how long Wiggins was a successful thing (whatever that means in aviation) before they got bought for their capital equipment.
Every good thing always seems to get bought by some Turd Sandwich who only wants to exploit the thing for its income or assets; No thought whatsoever for how that thing supports its local community/economy.
Six or so years before Wiggins was started, a great American poet from Wiggins' home state wrote a poem about that: "NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY".
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scooter2525
Very well Member
“The aircraft did not explode on impact”
That producer needs to layoff the Michael Bay movies.
That producer needs to layoff the Michael Bay movies.
Skåning
Well-Known Member
I turn it on way earlier than all the FOs that enjoy watching the PM (me) load up with ATC, alt changes, speeds, directs, etc. leaving the busy terminal environment so they can feel super cool modulating pitch and chasing the magenta line while the thrust levers are in the detent.Tell me you leave the autopilot on until 500 feet on every single landing without saying you leave the autopilot on until 500 feet on every single landing.
BUT they all get very uncomfortable when I tell them I’m turning the FD off on approach in VMC. Two years on the plane and I’ve had zero FOs do that. Just me I guess trying to be proficient on a real visual?
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
It’s a fine plane to fly.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
Oh no. The dreaded “I have to turn a knob and respond to ATC while you’re handflying.”
I guess only “The Real Stuff” can pull that off.
