12 legs a day!

[timetoclimb]

etc.

Part 121 Supplemental International is tough duty. 24 hours and still flying. How about single pilot merlin flying in ice and tstms 5 nights a week and 11 hours a night on duty? Hey...no wonder I wear a small watch. Phuq that. Flying is better left for Sunday afternoons in a convertible Steen Skybolt listening to the Doobie Brothers in Class G.

 

[Marko Ramius]

5. During a single engine taxi:

Passenger: (worried) "Uh, excuse me, but do you guys know that your left engine isn't running?"

Captain: "Yes ma'am, we were just discussing that. See, we're trying to settle a bet. I say we can take off on one engine but my counterpart here doesn't believe me, so I'm just gonna prove it to him once and for all and he's gonna owe me a steak dinner! Now if you'll just return to your seat we'll be underway shortly."

Might not sound that funny here but the look on the passenger face was priceless!

Does Commutair have power steering on their 1900's to allow SE taxi? We were always prohibited from doing so at the carrier I worked for.

 

[Colonel Cairo]

This was from when CommutAir still had some old 1900s with the power steering option. There aren't any in the fleet today but single engine taxis are still done (and allowed). Just takes more muscle and a little planning.

 

[Acestick]

Tired...?

I don't know about anyone else, but I would kill to have a job and flying commuters 6 days a week...

If your looking for a replacement don't hesitate to call me


hehehe

 

[chperplt]

Hey Colonel Cairo

Got to love walking the isle of that 1900... At least you're in a "D". I have to find two open seats to turn my fat as@ around in the "C". God help me when two really fat people sit next to each other. Uhm.. Excuse me please.. need to squeeze through here..
When I do get the pleasure of flying our one and only D, I always seem to rip my fu@king balls apart trying to get in the **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** seat. Only good thing about the C.. Easy to get in and out of.. sorta


What a great plane it is otherwise. I love shooting the visual to 4L in Boston and screaming by the jets on final, slowing down 3 miles out..

Ever try and steer that thing with the nose gear steering disconnected? What a joy!

 

[jackofdiamonds]

turboprops

yeah i was a 1900 capt myself and loved to blow by the jets on final. But I got to tell you- once you move to a "jet" it will be a move you will ever regret. Good luck to all out there pounding the pavement!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[PBRstreetgang]

Super Duper J-32

We called it the dungbeetle in Ca.
Dirty, noisy, smelly(19 toilets), truly a pilots plane-handled like a dream.
250kts to Limma(Lax), no sweat.
Sexy-no way, gotta be some mighty thick beer goggles.

"Pissing off the world 19 seats at a time"

 

[Humty72]

will never forget it thanks to the Mighty J-32 [/B]

Nor will I.

Man .. this one time I was on my way to ALO from STL and the wx was forcast ok but was 1/4 in snow, of course, when we got there. Ops. had us filled full of fuel when we left so that when we got there, holding for an hour wouldn't be a problem. Well, as the hold went on I made the appropriate 15 minute updates to the pax over the wonderful PA that the 32 has. The wx never improved, so we headed to MLI and I made another announcement letting the pax know about the diversion and that we would accomidate them (hopefully) when we got there... We landed in MLI after 3 hours of flight time (first dibs on the bathroom) ... and I made another PA while taxiing in giving the usual explination of why these people are not in the STATE that they wanted to go to. Then I got a tap on my shoulder from an elderly lady sitting in 1B, so I took my headset.. and earplugs out to listen to what she was saying.. She said " I'm sorry for bothering you but we haven't been able to understand what you have been saying over the speaker.." OMFG..... .... I thought to myself.. Man I wish I was the FO right now..

 

[TurboS7]

Lucky you, I count myself lucky if I get more than 5 landings a month. Sure sound like fun to me.

 

[TurboS7]

A Squared, that discription of that day sounded awful familiar to me, AKN-ANC or DLG-ANC, which one was it. Better yet out of Goodnews, or Togiak with the Ball Bros.

 

[A Squared]

TurboS7

Actually, it was OTZ-UNK-OTZ-UNK.......ad naseum then eventually back to ANC. The Ball Bros. don't operate here anymore.

Regards

 

[TurboS7]

I worked with NPT a long time ago 81,82,83 and am good friends with Gerry, Burt, and Newt. I havn't talked to them in a couple of years though.