Lame!

[EatSleepFly]

Been flying to Billings, MT all week. It was 75 degrees and sunny Monday, 64 degrees and decent yesterday, and now this today. 300' ceiling, 1/2sm in snow and freezing fog when I landed this morning. I thought (and hoped) that winter was gone- guess not. The TAF I had when I departed didn't call for anything less than 4sm. Of course it has since been updated to reflect the change (probably by looking outside).

 

[Hootie]

Woah!! I was there yesterday and it was nice!!

 

[Swen]

Good share. Really good share.

 

[ComplexHiAv8r]

Look, if you want I will call Denise and get you your old job back at AW!

 

[jtrain609]

I'd take freezing in the death pencil over spending 10 hours a day in the box.

 

[DE727UPS]

There is ice on your nose.

 

[tinman]

I think it was about 80 here in Orlando! But I'll be back up there Sat. for the cold weather .

 

[Seggy]

The engines are upside down

 

[jtrain609]

His engines are actually upside down APU's.

No joke.

 

[darrenf]

His engines are actually upside down APU's.

No joke.

Love those Garretts!!

 

[E_Dawg]

They're too louuudddddddd

 

[derg]

Glad it wasn't you today in SLC, there was a Metroliner flying over with the gear down.

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

His engines are actually upside down APU's.

No joke.

True, true!!!

 

[Maximilian_Jenius]

Love those Garretts!!

(cough) Honeywell (cough)

 

[jtrain609]

Glad it wasn't you today in SLC, there was a Metroliner flying over with the gear down.

That guy had it easy. We had a 99 lose an engine a few weeks ago at about 4,000' on his climb. The high pressure fuel pump took a crap and the damned thing was feathered before he even knew what had happened.

I think that's our second PT-6 failure in like 500,000 hours of operation, and they were both high pressure fuel pumps going out on us.

 

[derg]

PT6's are rock solid.

I still remember watching the Westair crews go out and spin the blades after landing to cool the driveshaft. DOH!

 

[Seggy]

That guy had it easy. We had a 99 lose an engine a few weeks ago at about 4,000' on his climb. The high pressure fuel pump took a crap and the damned thing was feathered before he even knew what had happened.

I think that's our second PT-6 failure in like 500,000 hours of operation, and they were both high pressure fuel pumps going out on us.

PT6's are rock solid.

I still remember watching the Westair crews go out and spin the blades after landing to cool the driveshaft. DOH!

UE Systems by Dan Boedigheimer

Covering all the major systems of the Beech 1900D Airliner


Chapter 2 Page 11 quote...


Over 40,000 PT6s have been delievered worldwide, and they have accumulated more than 275 million flight hours with an inflight shutdown rate of one per 333,333 hours.

 

[derg]

MAN TIES CLOSE, bro, MAN TIES CLOSE.

 

[Seggy]

MAN TIES CLOSE, bro, MAN TIES CLOSE.

I have a funny story about the MAN TIES and my first preflight off of IOE

Network JC '07 it will be told!

 

[falconvalley]