Air Cargo Carriers Sim training...

[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

 

[Lostdog65]

You can email me the picture and I can host it on my photobucket account.

[email protected]

Eric

 

[shortbus driver]

The pictures are enroute

Lostdog has been sent the pictures to post because I am computer illiterate.

 

[Lostdog65]

Here they are!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/Leadfiveone/MiscPics/shortbus1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/Leadfiveone/MiscPics/shortbus2.jpg

Eric

 

[shortbus driver]

Picture commentary

Thanks so much for posting those. Now you guys can see how dumb I really am. Everywhere else things that are a bad idea...here its just SOP. Today we got all that mud on the plane landing there. We had to get off the ground in about 1800ft in order to not abort... Oh heres another thing at air cargo ref +10 is standard...here ref+7 is go around and so is ref-5 so our approach needs to be very stable...even if there is 2 miles vis. I can't wait to get my time and come back to the lower 48. Anyone know who will be hiring this winter...i will have over 1200...heck i flew 47 hours this week...i am looking at a 160 hour month.

 

[Wankel7]

Thanks so much for posting those. Now you guys can see how dumb I really am. Everywhere else things that are a bad idea...here its just SOP. Today we got all that mud on the plane landing there. We had to get off the ground in about 1800ft in order to not abort... Oh heres another thing at air cargo ref +10 is standard...here ref+7 is go around and so is ref-5 so our approach needs to be very stable...even if there is 2 miles vis. I can't wait to get my time and come back to the lower 48. Anyone know who will be hiring this winter...i will have over 1200...heck i flew 47 hours this week...i am looking at a 160 hour month.

Mudding in the Shorts! That is great man glad to see your getting some amazing experience up there

Fly safe!

Wankel

 

[mpflies2]

Thanks so much for posting those. Now you guys can see how dumb I really am. Everywhere else things that are a bad idea...here its just SOP. Today we got all that mud on the plane landing there. We had to get off the ground in about 1800ft in order to not abort... Oh heres another thing at air cargo ref +10 is standard...here ref+7 is go around and so is ref-5 so our approach needs to be very stable...even if there is 2 miles vis. I can't wait to get my time and come back to the lower 48. Anyone know who will be hiring this winter...i will have over 1200...heck i flew 47 hours this week...i am looking at a 160 hour month.

sweet thanks for those pics....u2 lostdog haha

 

[jobear]

You need the naked chick trucker mudflaps on that thing!

 

[mcjohn]

I'm right there with you mpflies2. Ever since they've been doing a little work in the Shorts out of AVL I've wanted to fly for them. I met an ACC pilot at our FBO one day and he was a extremely nice and said good things about the company. I just passed 500 tt and my resume etc. has been sent. I know it's a little early and all but I might as well get started. Wish I knew someone on the inside. Hint Hint I'm watching the ramp like a hawk. I'm all over the next 360 I see out there.

Sweet pics you took there shortbus driver. That would be some fun flying.

 

[mcjohn]

Hey, while your up there in Alaska you need to get hold of a cub and try some of this. Four videos on the bottom of the page:
http://cubdriver749er.com/gallery.html

 

[mpflies2]

I'm right there with you mpflies2. Ever since they've been doing a little work in the Shorts out of AVL I've wanted to fly for them. I met an ACC pilot at our FBO one day and he was a extremely nice and said good things about the company. I just passed 500 tt and my resume etc. has been sent. I know it's a little early and all but I might as well get started. Wish I knew someone on the inside. Hint Hint I'm watching the ramp like a hawk. I'm all over the next 360 I see out there.

Sweet pics you took there shortbus driver. That would be some fun flying.

Will keep ya in mind when i get my chance. Until then...I'm going to try to enjoy flight instructing...gotta find a FI job first though.

Marc