mrivc211
Well-Known Member
I've been doing trips into northern cali this month. On our second day we start in CIC and go to SFO then MFR etc etc. Well my leg going into MFR we start our decent from FL260 and make our way down to 10,000'. I look down and since we're about 97 miles away I don't use the VNAV to calculate our best rate of decent.
About 40 miles out, we have to cross one last peak that sits at about 7,800' and then cleared to decend into the valley. Since we were in a slow decent I had our IAS at about 250 and our GS was showing 340 or so. I think to myself........I should probably bring it back a little. I forget that the 120 is a whole different animal full (which we were that day) than empty. Eventually our 40nm distance from the airport evaporates to nothing and I find myself HIGH and too fast for a gear extension (200IAS or below) to slow the bird down. I now had a last minute choice. Pitch down steeply and bleed the speed off once level at a lower altitude or slow it up at 7500' drop the gear bring in some flaps and chop it and drop it.
I choice to point the nose down and get down ASAP then dirty it up. Wrong choice! Since we were heavy the thing just did not want to slow down. Finally, neil- the captain/ check airmen I'm flying with says your not gonna make it dumb***. He asks for a left 360 and while were doing it he goes off and makes fun of me to the best of his ability. (we're very good friends- I can call him any name in the book and he'd laugh at it) " you call yourself a professional pilot- this is embarrassing- etc etc. I'm laughing the whole time and turning red. So we finally land approx 1.5 minutes later than we would have and we depart without anything unusual.
Well all I gotta say is pay back's a motha! Finishing our trip today, on the south side of the san jacinto mountains at about 11,000' we get cleared for the visual- his leg. The usual PSP approach we drop the gear, push the props forward and drop like a rock. Well, instead of the usual left traffic for 31L he requests right traffic 13R. Doing so makes the approach much more difficult where as you really have to be on top of your game to get down ASAP. So we make our way down. On downwind still at 3500' he extends downwind slightly(10 seconds) to point out a nudist colony. The runway is on my side and he can't see it. Well he starts turning base and then final. I realize he's not gonna make it and before I say anything he keys the mic and asks for a left 360!
I really can't repeat the words I said to him. Let's just say his face was more red than mine. I told him thats what he gets for talkin smack!!!!!!!
Funny thing karma is.
About 40 miles out, we have to cross one last peak that sits at about 7,800' and then cleared to decend into the valley. Since we were in a slow decent I had our IAS at about 250 and our GS was showing 340 or so. I think to myself........I should probably bring it back a little. I forget that the 120 is a whole different animal full (which we were that day) than empty. Eventually our 40nm distance from the airport evaporates to nothing and I find myself HIGH and too fast for a gear extension (200IAS or below) to slow the bird down. I now had a last minute choice. Pitch down steeply and bleed the speed off once level at a lower altitude or slow it up at 7500' drop the gear bring in some flaps and chop it and drop it.
I choice to point the nose down and get down ASAP then dirty it up. Wrong choice! Since we were heavy the thing just did not want to slow down. Finally, neil- the captain/ check airmen I'm flying with says your not gonna make it dumb***. He asks for a left 360 and while were doing it he goes off and makes fun of me to the best of his ability. (we're very good friends- I can call him any name in the book and he'd laugh at it) " you call yourself a professional pilot- this is embarrassing- etc etc. I'm laughing the whole time and turning red. So we finally land approx 1.5 minutes later than we would have and we depart without anything unusual.
Well all I gotta say is pay back's a motha! Finishing our trip today, on the south side of the san jacinto mountains at about 11,000' we get cleared for the visual- his leg. The usual PSP approach we drop the gear, push the props forward and drop like a rock. Well, instead of the usual left traffic for 31L he requests right traffic 13R. Doing so makes the approach much more difficult where as you really have to be on top of your game to get down ASAP. So we make our way down. On downwind still at 3500' he extends downwind slightly(10 seconds) to point out a nudist colony. The runway is on my side and he can't see it. Well he starts turning base and then final. I realize he's not gonna make it and before I say anything he keys the mic and asks for a left 360!
I really can't repeat the words I said to him. Let's just say his face was more red than mine. I told him thats what he gets for talkin smack!!!!!!!
Funny thing karma is.
