1: the coffee I drank on the ~30 minute hop from JNU to SIT to pick up a patient hit wrong about 15 mins after landing. FBO locked up. Thought I had struck gold when I spotted a porta john by the DOT office. After waddling over I discovered it was padlocked. Airplane has a lav, but we’ve never used it and don’t really have a way to service it. I head into a secluded stand of alder and my FO, god bless him, after a very well deserved laugh at my situation, rifles the unused lav of the airplane and finds most of a roll of toilet paper, thus saving my socks. The long and short of it is, you know the old saying about “does a bear • in the woods?” Well, I dunno about bears (IME they mostly • on the runway in Kake Alaska) but medevac pilots definitely • in the woods.
#2 (heh). I’m up in Anchorage for my medical (no local dude in juneau). I chow down on a pizza at silver gulch in the airport prior to hopping on the milk run home. Well, approximately the time we start engines in Cordova, my gut sounds a red alert that something in that pizza did not agree with it. I hold on with superhuman effort until the 10k chime, and then VFR direct to the aft lav. I’m back one more time on the what…40 minute flight? And again on the hop from Yakutat to Juneau.
