Canyon Twin Otter Flying.

vheissu

vheissu

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Figured I would post some pics from a day in the life of the Canyon. These are some pictures I've taken over the past year here. During the summer we have long flying days, with lots of bumps and lots of full sick sacks. The winter is slow flying wise, but beautiful and smooth.

The Twin Otter is a great aircraft to fly and I couldn't say more about how great the pilot group here is.


Cockpit in flight. In the middle of the Yoke is our Ref speeds

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North Rim of the Canyon with snow

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Here's another cockpit shot from the ground. These planes are OLD. Most have around 60,000 hours on them.

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Summer Day

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Seeing the sunrise and sunset over the Canyon is really nice, but seeing them both in one day sure isn't

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Our ramp is an ice rink sometimes

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During the summer most of our days are spent dodging T-Storms, but we get some pretty good IMC during the wintertime.

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Lots of noise in the cockpit with your head close to this thing.

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Lake Mead is drying up as we speak. Pretty scary stuff.

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Our Twin Otters are modded through an aftermarket company to give them the large windows. The "Vistaliner".

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Some light ground fog. Was taken on the timer in case we have some sterile cockpit Nazis here.

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Thanks for viewing.

-Jason
 
Great pictures thanks for taking the time to upload them.

Is that really snow I am seeing on the ground or salt flats? Seems counter-intuitive to a laymen like myself to see snow on the canyon rim in Nevada I guess.

Is GCAC now merged with scenics' green machines? I seem to remember hearing this earlier. What kind of time doers one need to fly the Twotter these days?
 
Nice pics!... I love the Twin otter.. although the closest I've ever been to one was me taxiing by as it sat on the ramp.. It was on floats.. super-cool to see
 
It"s not a freaking otter if it has two engines, arghhhh!!!!

Let me introduce you folks to my friend, the: dHC-3 OTTER
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DHC-6 TWIN OTTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks for all the responses! Yes that is snow. It snows quite a bit up there in the winter. The elevation at the North rim is almost 9,000 ft. Airport elevation at the South rim is 6,600 ft. Good for snow in the winter, and 10,000+ ft. density altitude during the summer.

We are all one company now, Scenic Airlines and Grand Canyon Airlines. I was a Scenic guy, but now we can fly GCA planes, but still using our procedures. As for hiring, if we do hire this year, it will be sometime in the Spring. The last group of new hires had wet commercials, but now I'm not really sure what our mins are. A wild guess would be somewhere around 600/50, IF we even hire this year.
 
I have a hard time believing that is a real posting. All the pilots have been taking a mandatory week off without pay since January. Things are still slow around here.
 
CRJDriver said:
Grand Canyon Airlines is advertising for Captain positions on USpilot.com.
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Correction: uspilot.com is reposting an old ad for captains at Grand Canyon Airlines. A cursory check of most jobs advertised on uspilot.com shows their listings to be bogus.
 
I was flying on one of your planes this winter.
After the flight, one of the instructors/pilots pulled me up into the cockpit and talked to me about working in the industry, finishing my A&P license, and other awesome stuff.

Anyways, all your pilots seem like stand up guys (That wasn't my first flight with you, and also not my first time in the cockpit :P )

Anyways, if you know who I might be talking about, tell him I say Thanks Again!
 
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