Speaking of no APU's (To Seggy)

Doug Taylor said:
Except in Britain, I think. After all, it's their language!
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Those crazy Brits......sure do talk funny.....and spell funny too. Go figure it was their language first.

LOL

I sometimes forget this is, in fact, an international forum.
 
Cruise said:
Nothing personal but........tyres....is spelled "tires."

Sorry, I saw it once and thought it was a joke.....but then I continued to read and realized...NOPE...no joke.
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Sorry guys it's a bad habbit I got into a while back.

I watched waaaay too many F1 (and F3000, and touring car etc.) races for a few years. Oh yeah and its colour too.
 
OldTownPilot said:
BTW it was -20C this morning in BGR. Our Pinnacle RON airplane had TWO flat tyres this morning (same main gear). They think the beads broke because of the cold and the air contracting, and the tyres not able to support the weight. Plane did not leave until almost 4pm (8 hours late). They had to fly 2 tyres and mechanics from Memphis in a citation to get it fixed.
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Wow, I was up there and saw this airplane getting fixed. Were you working any CoEx flights at that time? We came in mid-afternoon, and commented on the tire change that Pinnacle was doing. I know we are serviced by Comair in BGR.
 
BGR? Hardly knew her!

Sorry, took a little comedic intermission, carry on...
 
BGR? You brought her!

Just carrying on the comedic intermission, you're now returned to your regularly scheduled thread.
 
blee256 said:
HAHA, how cool are we! we have our own citation II! a crappy contract, but the Emergency response citation is priceless. it makes it all worth it. ;)
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Funny story - The Citation came to the rescue of me one day and promptly broke upon arrival, my jet got fixed but they had to fly Citation parts out on the next revenue trip.....

What a goat rope :D

Jason
 
Hot turns are great when dispatch round-trips your fuel (assuming you're on a short enough trip to do it). It's even more fun when they over-round-trip your fuel and you have to bump pax for the return flight. :)

I miss the 1900. What an awesome plane.
 
MQAAord said:
BGR? You brought her!

Just carrying on the comedic intermission, you're now returned to your regularly scheduled thread.
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LOL I don't know why I'm thinking of Louie Anderson and his description of the Olympic games he took part in:

"Broad Jump? Killed her."
 
FlyChicaga said:
Wow, I was up there and saw this airplane getting fixed. Were you working any CoEx flights at that time? We came in mid-afternoon, and commented on the tire change that Pinnacle was doing. I know we are serviced by Comair in BGR.
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I left about 100 that day, you came in at 230. I was there at 400am, and only was scheduled to leave at 930. You guys only have one flight a day for the winter (the one you flew). The RON returns May 3. There were 3 CoEx flights last summer.

Matt, how did our crew do? That turn is when we are double staffed between the morning crew and the night crew, so there were probably plenty of people around.

How far are you guys on the conversion of the 145ers, to not be a total POS. (weight wise)

I am in CVG now (left monday morning) for a week of ticketing training, missing the cold and bleek maine weather...bummer...
 
Crews were fine. I was up there last year when it was warmer (we drank outside by the pool in shorts) and you had some whacko-ladies working the ramp though. :)

I dunno about the conversions. We flew ER's (ahem, EP's) the last two days of the trip and none were converted.
 
Doug Taylor said:
19 pax, load up the bins, spin the whiz-wheel and you're off!
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Ramper to pilot: "How many bags can you take?"
Pilot to ramper: "How many do you have?" wink wink
Ramper: "About 35."
Pilot: "30? Great! We can take 30 if that's what you write down."
Ramper (slowly getting it): "But, we have 35 ... "
Pilot: "30. Awesome. Any more than that and we couldn't 'legally' take it, even though the aircraft is good for another 1000 pounds. Thanks for letting me know ahead of time that you have 30 bags."
Ramper: "Right, 30. That's what we have. This lil bag only weighs 2 pounds. It doesn't really count..."
Note: nothing was ever "overloaded" in excess. Nothing unsafe was ever done by me or any crews I knew. None of us have deathwishes!

I want to buy one. Just for fun. Take it around the pattern a few times, do some mock strafing runs, fun stuff like that. I'd paint the whole thing flat black, add a few spotlights to it, then run along I-10 at night freaking people out. That'd be cool...
 
Or fly around at flaps 35, props forward, gear up, as slow and low as possible along I-40 near Gallup, NM at night and turn on the taxi light on cars below.

"Dag'gummit, Hoss! It's another one of dem UFO's with that tractor beam trying to appruh'HEND us!"
 
I flew a King Air 90 at 2500 AGL along I-70 one night with the radar tilted down all the way. Just watched the cars tap their brakes for an hour or so.
 
Jason said:
Funny story - The Citation came to the rescue of me one day and promptly broke upon arrival, my jet got fixed but they had to fly Citation parts out on the next revenue trip.....

What a goat rope :D

Jason
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You work for 9E? I thought only Peanucke and I were the only ones on this board.
 
ricecakecm said:
I flew a King Air 90 at 2500 AGL along I-70 one night with the radar tilted down all the way. Just watched the cars tap their brakes for an hour or so.
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how would they know?
 
ricecakecm said:
I flew a King Air 90 at 2500 AGL along I-70 one night with the radar tilted down all the way. Just watched the cars tap their brakes for an hour or so.
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Yeah what is the significance of the radar???
 
Does aircraft radar really operate on the same band(s) as police radar? What about ground based weather radar? Does that set off radar detectors?
 
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