Jeez, is this Capt insane?!?

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/columnist/getline/2004-09-27-ask-the-captain_x.htm

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What's the most terrifying thing that has ever happened to you in an airplane?

My most scary — and daring — feat occurred when a faulty door blew open in a pressurized light-twin plane I was flying in Alaska.

I was strapped in, of course. But everything else was sucked out of the plane, including a briefcase with my logbook in it. The briefcase was soft and wrapped itself around a wing strut (the metal bar attached from the body of the airplane to the outer part of the wing).

Because all the records of my flight time were in that log — and I had to have it if I ever was to get another flying job — I wasn't going to let it get away. So during flight, I crawled outside the aircraft and onto the strut to get it. I was alone and without an autopilot feature, but the airplane remained stable and mostly on course and altitude.

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Is it just me, or does anyone else think that was just a bit TOO risky?

 

[derg]

A pressurized light twin with wing struts?

 

[Kingairer]

Otter?? I dont think they are pressurized, but maybe it was our very own capt alaska.

 

[derg]

Google's saying the twin otters are all unpressurized. Then I was thinking one of the Shorts, but the Shorts are unpressurized as well.

Perhaps USAToday got punk'd?

 

[montanapilot]

Perhaps a SkyDisaster?

 

[MikeD]

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Perhaps a SkyDisaster?




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Do you dare make fun of the O-2?

 

[derg]

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Perhaps a SkyDisaster?

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MikeD's going to kick your butt!

 

[montanapilot]

Nah, actually if i had the money to buy a twin that would be the one.

But i have heard the rear prop seems to have a pretty heafty apetite for rocks.

My Dad flew them the (337P) for a financial company for few years and said they are absolute maintence hogs.

 

[derg]

I was just kidding man, MikeD's dream was to fly O-2's over Vietnam. You know, living out of a quonset hut, a few days of stubble on the face and eating beans out of a can with a spoon. Oh, and running moonshine on the side with the caoboys.

 

[jdflight]

Why does this not surprise me?

 

[bigbadboblittle]

alright, i'm gonna have to call bulls&!% on this one. "my bag with my logbook was wrapped around the wing strut, so I just decided to go get it." Funny that there wasn't anyone else onboard to witness this amazing feat. I can maybe see reaching out to the strut, but actually crawling out on it?! Sounds like she's watched one too many movies.

 

[Minnesota_Flyer]

The O-2 or the O-1 are two of my favorite military aircraft:

 

[FlyChicaga]

Whatever. She's a scab, who's looking for some recognition.

 

[derg]

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Whatever. She's a scab, who's looking for some recognition.

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GESH! She is.

She used to work for "Wien Air" but they don't have any high wing light twins with wing struts....

Unless, of course, she flew for someone else in Alaska prior to Wien Air.

Aww those USAToday boneheads could have at least asked me or Zlooka!

 

[flyover]

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Because all the records of my flight time were in that log — and I had to have it if I ever was to get another flying job — I wasn't going to let it get away.

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I always saw lost logbooks as an oportunity to "build" more time.

 

[derg]

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I always saw lost logbooks as an oportunity to "build" more time.

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[Minnesota_Flyer]

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GESH! She is.

She used to work for "Wien Air" but they don't have any high wing light twins with wing struts....

Unless, of course, she flew for someone else in Alaska prior to Wien Air.

Aww those USAToday boneheads could have at least asked me or Zlooka!

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Hmmm. Wonder if she scabbed into Wien Air too, or just United? If USAToday wasn't such a crappy newspaper anyway, I'd write a letter!

Anyway, I call bull$hit on her story. It don't make no sense. Maybe she had to reach out the door for her bag, but crawl out on the strut?? I don't think so. What a maroon!

MF

 

[montanapilot]

Well according to the Master Scab list:

Looks like she scabbed both Wien Air 1977 and UAL 1985.

 

[Minnesota_Flyer]

That's what I thought, but the list I'm looking at is a little vague. Grrr

 

[Alaskaairlines]

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http://www.usatoday.com/travel/columnist/getline/2004-09-27-ask-the-captain_x.htm

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What's the most terrifying thing that has ever happened to you in an airplane?

My most scary — and daring — feat occurred when a faulty door blew open in a pressurized light-twin plane I was flying in Alaska.

I was strapped in, of course. But everything else was sucked out of the plane, including a briefcase with my logbook in it. The briefcase was soft and wrapped itself around a wing strut (the metal bar attached from the body of the airplane to the outer part of the wing).

Because all the records of my flight time were in that log — and I had to have it if I ever was to get another flying job — I wasn't going to let it get away. So during flight, I crawled outside the aircraft and onto the strut to get it. I was alone and without an autopilot feature, but the airplane remained stable and mostly on course and altitude.

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Is it just me, or does anyone else think that was just a bit TOO risky?

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I would have to see it to believe it.