What's 3/4 of a billion dollars among friends? It's really enormous.... It's not long like and shiplike like the USS Missouri but it's HUGE out of the water presence. It looms overhead.....
Cool pic. But, gotta note, as something of a "local" these days, "San Fran" is very definitely frowned upon..... Call it by it's name, or even "SF" is acceptable, to locals, it's "The City". For reasons unknown to me, never, ever, "San Fran" though. You're just having way too much fun! That solar plant pic is *awesome*. Never want yer terrain alarm going at 32K feet! Cheers, Ian
Guess so! I think 'we' may have touched on this previously, but are we now raising pilots pretty much dependent on "the glass". [No offense intended there of course Mark!] I know when I was boating I became pretty much totally dependent on my autopilot, & it worked well, but I always kept the relevant charts and a handheld GPS close by "just in case". Cheers, Ian
As a West coast person who has been reluctantly transplanted at a variety of locations around the rural conservative southern US over the last decade I could give a **** what San Fransisco cares to be referred to. In the scheme of things it's a foggy has been which has been surpassed on the freak-o-zoid scale by my own home town of Portlandia on the national stage. They have a nice bridge, Alcatraz and whatever the transamerica building is called now but apart from that I could give a **** about San Fransisco. It's an interesting situation I find myself in..... I grew up in the C-130E/H world and traveled around the world on much more rudimentary instrumentation than is standard in aircraft of the last few decades. Now I find myself as the "new guy" learning a new aircraft (C-130j) and all its idiosyncrasies. The new avionics are awesome in what they offer but I'm also a bit freaked out by how dependent all these new folks are. We had an issue with both INS systems and one GPS dropped out about 1k miles north of Hawaii in the middle of nowhere halfway to Alaska.... Everybody else gets 100% saturated trying to figure out what's happening with the boxes and is dead to the world. I pulled out ye olde whiz wheel and dividers and start plotting some dead reckoning positions and am happy as a pig in ****. While I would just as rather go off the box it's scary how depended some folks are on having it work 100%.
Fair enough! Thankyou for writing "San Francisco" rather than "San Fran" though. May have to visit Portlandia at some point..... Totally agree re the fog - Sucks! One of my earliest memories after moving here was Candlestick Park for a Giants game - I swear I've never been so cold. +1 Exactly my point above. At least you had the charts with you! Cheers, Ian
I would like to have visited San Fransisco but was forced by my the onerous requirements of my bosses to spend the last two weeks in Hawaii where I was inflicted by a painful sunburn acquired on one of my many days off..... In 14 days I'm a bit over 60 hours flying time during the course of five days of actual flying. I'm annoyed with myself at how much I suck with this new aircraft.... I was pretty much at the pinnacle of things in the E/H model but the avionics in the J have given me a lot to learn. There isn't anything particularly difficult but it's the breaking of well entrenched habits and procedures that is just killing me. Checklist routines which have worn a path in my head for a decade are now changed significantly. There are four different ways to program some damn thing into the box that I'm used to just figuring out in my head. I'm picking it up quick but it's annoying the hell out of me. These young MF'ers annoy the **** out of me because they are so dependent on the computers and can't figure out **** but I'm only six flights into this new plane and I don't have the competence level in this platform to start ripping into them. I sat down with the avionics guys in the maintenance section today for a few hours and got smart on some stuff. These young MF'ers better watch out because I'm learning this thing and am gonna be coming in hot and fast here soon.....
I know the business jets get up here all the time, but 43,000 isn't seen much by 747s. Max altitude fur the 400 is 45100, -8 is 43100. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Skimming the overcast at 8,000 feet between Houston and Dallas yesterday. Apparently there was a giant iPhone in the sky watching me (I guess the window had more reflection than I realized!). Image Unavailable, Please Login
Not sure where i was at this point. Somewhere over Manitoba in an a321. Toronto to Calgary. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Good to know. The boss is toying with the idea of a bigger jet but poo -pooed the idea of a BBJ because he likes to fly 43-450 for smother air. I guess I will sell him on a 74 haha. We stepped up to FL430 yesterday over the North Atlantic. Tracks were way up north due to really bad turbulance to the south.
Is this what they call a tail dragger? Lou, you mentioned at 10 deg it flies and at 12 deg. she hits. From the 767-200 to all up to and including the 777-300, I calculated and did the drawings to graphically show those angles. We also had to do the roll angles and pitch angles in all axis relative to the ground. I always think of the JAL 747 that suffered the bulkhead blowout that blew the vertical tail off. That airplane was in a tail strike that damaged the lower half of the pressure bulkhead. The airline elected to repair the bulkhead in place instead of removing and replacing it as requested by Boeing. Tail strikes can be more than a bump.
Yes, it's my trusty Baron. I have quite a bit of time in the Beech royalty model line (Bonanzas, Barons, Dukes, King Airs) and just love the way they fly.
Ok I wasn't flying directly but this just was! Apologies for bad iPhone pics, was pretty awesome, never have seen it before. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
A batch from the prettiest airport I've been at to date. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Tom, It is the Canadian Rockies international airport in Cranbrook British Columbia. Now a days only little guys fly there with the biggest being a dash8 300.decades ago a big boy, I think 737, hit the mountains.
