Air Cargo Carriers Sim training...

[flymeach]

I know where you sleep at night Tex.....

 

[shortbus driver]

The Short bus

Lost Dog which aircraft did u fly? We fly a c-23 sherpa from the forest service or land management...N168LM Its my baby, but I do miss air cargo carriers. Those guys and gals are some of the greatest I have ever met. Sean is the director of training and is incredibly nice guy. He was in the left seat for my checkride and their training was so good that when I accepted my job here in Alaska they just looked at the paperwork for a few days and signed off my training. All I had to do was a little indoc for the company and I was ready to fly within a week. Air Cargo is one of the best part 135 companies I have ever seen or heard of. I have talked to a lot of people and I would say most agree. The shorts is a very simple, slow, and forgiving airplane that is seriously build like a skyhawk...how many transport category aircraft have wing struts? To all those who fly for air cargo I do have to make u a little jeleous...we have autopilot and gps up here....and its IFR certified...its sweet.

Shortbus

 

[flymeach]

What? Our GPS is not IFR Cert??

Check Mate!

What company do you fly for in Alaska?

 

[JetSpeed219]

I love womens curling! (thats for you Jetspeed!)

I miss the good ol days of watching womens curling in the Crowne Plaza while I was puking my guts out!

 

[shortbus driver]

I fly for a local cargo/pax carrier

I work for Arctic Circle Air. We do things that the sherpa was not made for...and we do it with style. To my knowledge we have the only sherpa in Alaska other than the military and we ship vehicles, 4 wheelers, snowmobiles...etc
As of recent we are shipping 100,000lbs of outboard boat motors and lumber out to some fishing lodge. The runway is 4000ft long but 1500ft into it turns 30 degrees...i am not exagerating...if you dont believe me i will send a picture. Another thing that happens that I have never had before in my life. We got the plane stuck when turning around. The capt used the brake too much and it duck a 15 inch hole so we had to unload the plane and dig it out and taxi it...this is sooo different. It is neat to fly into dirt/gravel/grass. The runways are more forgiving and make for good stopping. Check out our website at www.arcticcircleair.com

 

[JumpCaptain]

...The runway is 4000ft long but 1500ft into it, it turns 30 degrees...i am not exagerating...if you dont believe me i will send a picture....

Wow! Post a link. I'd like to see that.

 

[OzBushWhacker]

Shortbus,

Glad to hear your doing some 'real' flying now..... always thought the Shorts would be a mad bushplane. I'll look through my photo's and see if i can better your curvy runway. Do remember flying freight in Oz to this one strip that had a creek that went through half of it during the monsoon season, and landed on a road with cars stopped at each end more than once.

So take it you guys use reverse up there? Hehe.


Cheers

 

[Lostdog65]

Lost Dog which aircraft did u fly? We fly a c-23 sherpa from the forest service or land management...N168LM Its my baby, but I do miss air cargo carriers. Those guys and gals are some of the greatest I have ever met. Sean is the director of training and is incredibly nice guy. He was in the left seat for my checkride and their training was so good that when I accepted my job here in Alaska they just looked at the paperwork for a few days and signed off my training. All I had to do was a little indoc for the company and I was ready to fly within a week. Air Cargo is one of the best part 135 companies I have ever seen or heard of. I have talked to a lot of people and I would say most agree. The shorts is a very simple, slow, and forgiving airplane that is seriously build like a skyhawk...how many transport category aircraft have wing struts? To all those who fly for air cargo I do have to make u a little jeleous...we have autopilot and gps up here....and its IFR certified...its sweet.

Shortbus

Shortbus....I think I have some 68LeakyMike time in my logbook...mostly I flew N175Z out of Redding. Also flew the two out of Redmond, Or. or occasion when ours was in maint.

The BLM and the USFS embarked on the certification process many years and many millions of dollars ago. I'm glad to see that LeakyMike is still being flown and not hacked up for parts as we were told it would be. In Redmond, you can see her sister ship out back of the jump base. They're gonna put it on a pole and do jump training out of it.

Does 8LM still have that diamond plate floor in it??? Is your GPS still the Garmin 430 the BLM put in it? It used to have an INS system that was sweet in it's time.

Have fun in Alaska...I did ten days there and in 03' and had a ball flying the Sherpa around. Fairbanks to Galena to McGrath to points inbetween. Dirt strips in Huslia and up to the Arctic Circle.

Eric

 

[mpflies2]

Wow! Post a link. I'd like to see that.

I second that...i gotta see it

wonder if its like that in ole Microsoft flight sim?

 

[shortbus driver]

I will post it...tommorow

Sorry guys...i have a couple good pictures of it, but i do not have time tonight to do it...i will try to upload the picture...otherwise the only place i know how to post online is using facebook