upndsky
Freightdog 4 Life
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- Dec 18, 2001
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To bring this thread back to its original topic -- Riddle Momma's interview with Airnet -- I just read on Avweb that DOJ has finalized its process to allow non-citizens to begin initial training in aircraft over 12,500 lbs. I've searched around the web and haven't found any details. This jives with what a friend of mine at ACA has heard, that the airline was recently informed by DOJ that approval of the process was immenent. So, Riddle Momma, hang in there.
Now to take the thread back off track, in December I landed in a Seneca II in freezing rain. The ceilings were 1,000 MSL and the temp above 2000 MSL was above freezing. So that was a 1,000 feet of precip we had to fly through. While on the approach, the Part 121 carrriers were holding over the outer marker, trying to convice the controller to change the ATIS from freezing rain to light freezing rain. I suppose that their OpSpecs allows them to land in light freezing rain, but not freezing rain. I mention this because another poster wrote that Part 121 pilots were smart for not flying in freezing rain. So why then were these guys trying to convince the controller to change the ATIS? The message is that one must know the capabilities of the airplane and of one's own flying abilities. Think of a 300-hour instrument pilot with little or no actual time flying an approach to minimums. Legal? Yes. Safe? Doubtful. A freightdog who does this day in and day out, on the other hand, could do it with one eye closed and one hand tied behind his back. Don't judge a pilot for flying through freezing rain without being there to analyze all the facts.
Now to take the thread back off track, in December I landed in a Seneca II in freezing rain. The ceilings were 1,000 MSL and the temp above 2000 MSL was above freezing. So that was a 1,000 feet of precip we had to fly through. While on the approach, the Part 121 carrriers were holding over the outer marker, trying to convice the controller to change the ATIS from freezing rain to light freezing rain. I suppose that their OpSpecs allows them to land in light freezing rain, but not freezing rain. I mention this because another poster wrote that Part 121 pilots were smart for not flying in freezing rain. So why then were these guys trying to convince the controller to change the ATIS? The message is that one must know the capabilities of the airplane and of one's own flying abilities. Think of a 300-hour instrument pilot with little or no actual time flying an approach to minimums. Legal? Yes. Safe? Doubtful. A freightdog who does this day in and day out, on the other hand, could do it with one eye closed and one hand tied behind his back. Don't judge a pilot for flying through freezing rain without being there to analyze all the facts.
