What's your Worst/Scariest experience flying cargo?

I had to deuce er up one night 30 minutes out of the ol' banana, BNA that is, and was seriously worried I was not goin to make it. Talk about SCARY!
 
the Van needs to be a strutless wing with retractable gear. That would improve the plane greatly. I don't think the plane has a problem with ice the pilots do.
 
Bandit_Driver said:
the Van needs to be a strutless wing with retractable gear. That would improve the plane greatly. I don't think the plane has a problem with ice the pilots do.
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you mean not be a caravan and then it would be a great plane?
 
Bandit_Driver said:
the Van needs to be a strutless wing with retractable gear. That would improve the plane greatly. I don't think the plane has a problem with ice the pilots do.
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I'll take the struts, the fixed gear and the slow speeds, just as long as I don't have to put up with the gear design of Cessna High wings. Any plane you have to bring a cane with you as part of you e. checklist to pull the dang gear forward is retawded.
 
I agree with you that Cessna has had some bad gear designs. But there has to be a logical way to get it out of the way. That plane is a freakin' ice magnet with all the crap it has hanging out.

One easy solution would be to give it some more SHP, then it could carry more ice. Or put a bigger engine and give it a heated leading edge with the excess bleed air....

just my .02. worth
 
The problem with that is there isn't enough excess bleed air and there's too much wing. Now, put a Garrett engine on there, and we may have something, but for now, it's not a solution.

I agree most of the problem is pilot's getting in over their heads. The FAA's latest AD is just a band-aid and will not fix that problem. All I know is there are some companies out there that are going to have some major problems if/when the FAA gets their knee-jerk reactions pushed too far.
 
i am not a freight dog and i hate to clutter your forum but i figured i would put in my one not so scary...but uncomfortable moment in my limited flying career.

it was a basic flight in socal headed from San Diego to Big Bear (something like 6700' airport elevation) i was in a small cessna cardinal and flying at around 8500' i had just hit the mountains and hit a real stiff 40+ knot wind sheer. The airplane was doing around 70 knots at full power pitched up the best i could get it without losing any more speed and i was still losing around 800 fpm with some sharp drops of 50 or so feet that sent everything in the cockpit sticking to the ceiling numerous times. I managed to turn it around 180 and head out of the mountains but not without losing close to 1000' in a little over a minute.

I know this isnt too scary of stuff but i had about 100 hours at the time and it was my first what i consider to be severe turbulance experience at the time that made me realize exactly what happens when people start losing that kind of altitude and feel the only thing they can do is pitch up for altitude which of course drops airspeed and causes potential immintent stall and a more drastic loss in alt. Many pilots get into those situations and end up spinning out or stalling to their doom. i guess i remembered some training and got lucky at the same time.

Looking back on it it was a great experience gainer and the thing that made me the most mad was not that i was totally worried, i was more concentrating at the time on the task, but that i heard talk of downdrafts over the FSS and i continued to test the waters and i had my wife with me and it scared her more than i ever want to see her scared, she doesnt understand flying all that well and i put her in a really bad position, stupid stuff like that will cause you to lose your flying partner and enduce an uneeded fear of the air.

anyway sorry i typed so much to talk about so little, its just my two cents.
 
USMC-SGT said:
i am not a freight dog and i hate to clutter your forum but i figured i would put in my one not so scary...but uncomfortable moment in my limited flying career.

it was a basic flight in socal headed from San Diego to Big Bear (something like 6700' airport elevation) i was in a small cessna cardinal and flying at around 8500' i had just hit the mountains and hit a real stiff 40+ knot wind sheer. The airplane was doing around 70 knots at full power pitched up the best i could get it without losing any more speed and i was still losing around 800 fpm with some sharp drops of 50 or so feet that sent everything in the cockpit sticking to the ceiling numerous times. I managed to turn it around 180 and head out of the mountains but not without losing close to 1000' in a little over a minute.

I know this isnt too scary of stuff but i had about 100 hours at the time and it was my first what i consider to be severe turbulance experience at the time that made me realize exactly what happens when people start losing that kind of altitude and feel the only thing they can do is pitch up for altitude which of course drops airspeed and causes potential immintent stall and a more drastic loss in alt. Many pilots get into those situations and end up spinning out or stalling to their doom. i guess i remembered some training and got lucky at the same time.

Looking back on it it was a great experience gainer and the thing that made me the most mad was not that i was totally worried, i was more concentrating at the time on the task, but that i heard talk of downdrafts over the FSS and i continued to test the waters and i had my wife with me and it scared her more than i ever want to see her scared, she doesnt understand flying all that well and i put her in a really bad position, stupid stuff like that will cause you to lose your flying partner and enduce an uneeded fear of the air.

anyway sorry i typed so much to talk about so little, its just my two cents.
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Thanks for sharing. I would've been mad too. I hope you were able to give a PIREP so the next guy wouldn't have to go through that.

HS
 
I definately did give a pirep...(those FSS people are so friendly to talk to anyway) and i had them upgrade the basic downdraft to severe turb. and basically unpassable for small aircraft below 10k'
 
part of the fun of trying to cross the rocky's in a small aircraft. Glad you made it through and learned from it. Those Mts can funnel winds like crazy!

Anyone else out there had a rough week?

3 alternator failures, 1 heater smoking up the cockpit, gear not staying locked, nose baggage door popping open, and 1 engine overheat. I'm really glad its friday. If i can make it thorugh the last 1.5 tonight I promise I will only drink keystone this weekend.
 
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