THATS what makes it fun in my opinion!
It's about as fun as driving buzzed: you know you probably shouldn't do it, but you figure the odds are in your favor. Thrilling.
What? Do you have a point to make?
It's UPS, not the feeder company management that causes this. They pick the closest airport to their center, and tell the feeder to fly there.
Don't try to use logic when dealing with big brown, you'll just go crazy.
That's the 99, sir. The Navajo is not doing UPS work out of either of these stupid airports. The 99 could probably accelerate-go. The Navajo absolutely will not.
Agreed, then again I am wired a bit weird. I think we should fly cargo inverted...
For what? 25lbs of bank work out of some meth-town? Sorry, but my career and/or life are not worth that BS.
Of course, I'm a • so I'll just go up there and do it until I find a better job or die when I lose an engine at 80 knots on the the takeoff roll. And when someone does die or destroy an airplane in that scenario,
then the company will say "Oh, we shouldn't be operating out of these fields." I really like AMF, but I won't give them a pass on this stupidity.
Think about it: everything else in the company culture is more or less designed to minimize risk, as any operator worth its salt aims for these days. But completely disregarding the margins of accelerate-stop distances is mind boggling to me.
Not to mention that if you land at some of these places VFR (the only way in) and the weather drops before departure, you're effed. They'll send a truck to pick up the cargo, completely negating our usefulness to the customer.
Why would we put ourselves in such a stupid position???
Especially when there are IFR airports with longer runways a literal stone's throw away.
Sorry, just wanted to vent.
