Thunderstorm avoidance
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Maurus
The Great Gazoo
That is the problem with green-scale radar. It always paints green!
CzechAirman
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jhugz is the only one here with any balls. The rest of you should be condemned to flying RJs the rest of your careers so you can deviate around clouds and your coworkers won't think anything is wrong with your manhood, or lack thereof.
gotWXdagain
Polished Member
CPR becomes completely effortless in continuous moderate turbulence.
jhugz
Guppy gear swinger
You don't say.
dasleben
That's just, like, your opinion, man
You'll fly like a grandmother here. Enjoy your day VFR -8.
gotWXdagain
Polished Member
It really amazes me the lengths the freight pilots go through delivering the bull semen and sex toys (not necessarily used for the same thing, but I'm not judgin) on time, while Joe Medevac with a heart attack patient in the back flies around.
z987k
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The EMS guy is a reformed freight pilot.
Tommay85
Well-Known Member
Those guys are idiots. There's just no need what-so-ever to do most of the things you hear about or stereo-type about in the 135 freight world.
This deviation (135 miles off course added 18 minutes to the flight). No risk for popping rivets (or worse), no risk for lightning strikes, no spilled bull semen. Again, you're not going to run out of gas or really have any issues at all avoiding ALL of it in a turboprop or faster in the flight levels.
In a piston/99/Caravan, I would have taken even more gas, no Fs given.
Pistons are harder. Pressurized turbines have PLENTY of speed for all kinds of deviating without much impact to fuel burn. Unless you're taking minimum fuel for a direct flight, in which case, you're also an idiot.
Avalon781ML
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In a piston/99/Caravan, I would have taken even more gas, no Fs given.
Can you please come over and be my CP? We commonly get dispatched to FL330 when FL280 and below is forecast and reported smooth with min fuel. Some days my belly hurts from all the jiggling that occurs... and I hate it when my belly jiggles.
bkey79
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I have a new sig line!
A150K
Well-Known Member
I don't know man...Bull semen and sex toys are pretty critical cargo.
gotWXdagain
Polished Member
I've taken the long way around several storms and the only guff I get from the medics in back is none, because they appreciate the smoother ride
A150K
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According to some of the EMS guys I chat with from time to time, some of the medics are a bit more worried about weather than they are. As in they get concerned about weather that actually isn't a problem.
ppragman
FLIPY FLAPS!
That's how I ended up in EMS, well, more or less.
gotWXdagain
Polished Member
I'm ok with that. 3 to go, one to say no.
Tommay85
Well-Known Member
Bah, I can take a good trolling when trolling!
I am mostly serious though, at least when it comes to 135 freight hounding. Yes, I'm fully aware of traffic issues between 280 and 370 with diversions.
Most of us did mono-chromatic radar at some point. Go around all of it! Yar
Avalon781ML
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No... I was being serious. Don't we have some sort of flow program? You should just slide right in and turn the place on its head from an operational standpoint.Bah, I can take a good trolling when trolling!
I am mostly serious though, at least when it comes to 135 freight hounding. Yes, I'm fully aware of traffic issues between 280 and 370 with diversions.
Tommay85
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We do, but I'm pretty sure I've posted too much on the facetubes about that place...
Even if I delete it, it's been verbably expressed how dumb that "flow" is! Especially since UPS was drafting something up at the time and we gave them the finger... UGH! AAY would have to be desperate enough/short enough to tolerate my mouth to hire me and promote me. haha
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