PA-28-140 down in Heflin, AL

Giggity said:
Flying threw texas that day in a PA-28... The weather was crazy! The ground speed topped out at 220kts "indicating 125". Freezing rain/snow...horrible wind ect...I and I cant see why any CFI would sign off a student pilot to fly in similar weather :dunno:
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And you were flying in a non known ice approved airplane because?
My only we're reading news articles about you is because of shear luck.
 
TXaviator said:
but also cool to know these aircraft can take a substantial beating and still fly... i know i wouldnt wanna be the first one to find out!!
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You know, some can take a real beating, but it only takes a quick search to find the break ups.
 
Boris Badenov said:
His? One can only imagine. Mine was maybe a 7/10 on the FreightTerror scale. Past "ugh, bad night" and short of "God, if you get me out of this one, I'll stop drinking and start giving to Save The Children". It IS disconcerting when water gets in the flexed-out frame and the "door open" light starts setting off the master caution. ;)
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I learned something from that B.B. , thx

If that ever happens to me, I can say to myself that Boris Badenov worked through this.

Cordially,

b.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Brother, that's not bad ass. Bad ass is all the Airnet/FLX/Ramair/Quest/whatever guys who went through the same dirty stuff (probably direct) in non-radar singles or maybe twin pistons and didn't even see fit to talk about it. I'm a shadow of my former self. I just posted the track for informational purposes. That said, if you want to see Stupid Pilot Tricks volume 1874, look up the old FRB runs over the last 20 years. I was lucky enough to get in on the back side on the shoulders of giants. Flying through level 3s is a joke to the real hardasses. I was an apprentice at best. They're still out there, somewhere, doing what they do all the time, getting the dog doo where it's supposed to go. Bottoms up to the real dogs. Better them than me, because I scared myself enough just trying to live up to their myth.

I met a guy at FLX who was famous for going direct through anything. Tornadoes, waterspouts, whatever. He went. I used to watch his flightware track and bite my fingernails. Not much of a talker, but a damn fine pilot. Probably had too few teeth to impress an interview board, but tougher than any hair-gelled homo I've ever seen. I'm just a guy hitching his coat-tails to that kind of bad-assery. It takes a special kind to do it, and I'm not that kind, I just hope to sneak in under the radar and get counted with them for posterity. "They were called test pilots...and no one knew their names". Look out below!
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Now that is neat. Unless you are ting us.

Cordially,

b.
 
MikeD said:
Have gone through more inadverent embedded T-storms than I've wanted to back in the freight dog days. Get into IMC, and things start getting progressively worse and darker. Then you get the static over the headsets which is never a good thing. Iced up so bad one time going into ABQ one night, with the ice constantly being slung into the ice shields on the nose with the resultant "slam!" noise, that after landing and taxiing in; the lineman signals me to stop and goes forward and under the nose. I figure he's just chocking the front wheel as I shutdown, and he comes popping up in my view again holding this @2-3 inch thick bowl-shaped piece of ice that had been formed/adhered to the nosecone. Had ice on the gear struts and over many of the wing/stab surfaces still. Not fun, but definitely a learning experience. Have a pic of that ice-bowl somewhere in my stuff.
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:picsplease:

Cordially,

b
 
It's all fun and games until you end up in the drink.

I'm a self-admitted weenie. I don't understand the guys who push through this kind of weather (referring to the FLX 210 above), thinking they're badass for doing it just to get the freight there. I have a friend flying a BE99 for an unnamed cargo carrier, and he honestly gets off on the idea that he'll go in any kind of weather, regardless of what's out there.

No thanks. I'll be inside drinking my coffee. Freight, passenger connections, etc. Not important enough to risk my life for. My friend tells me I'd make a terrible freight dog, and he's probably right.
 
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