Jetspeed

Oh I will leave that for Justin or Timeless to tell! Ask him about it, it's quite hilarious. Timeless, you still commuting around with that skateboard???

SPDBOILER

Finally, a post from BGMANN that isn't negative....although still made with a certain level of spite.

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No, Donny, these men are nihilists. There's nothing to be afraid of.

bgmann

In response to a post I made about 2 months ago about a severe icing event out of Beckley, WV. The Shorts landed with somewhere between 3-5 inches of ice. For those that were interested in seeing the pictures and video of the "severe icing" event of an ACC Shorts coming out of BKW and within 10-15 mins having to divert into CRW.

I am hoping the pilot can post the video on YouTube. It's a large file. Here are the pics. http://s51.photobucket.com/albums/f372/bgmann/ You will have to click on the left scroll bar on "Shorts Severe Icing".

Quote of Flying FO...
"We took off out of BKW and about 10-15 minutes we got just hammered. We were at 8 and tried climbing to 10 to see if we could get on top, but we maxed out around 9,400 with damn near red-line torque and the trim was all the pitched up. We were definately coming down so we just headed straight for CRW straight in for the ILS to 5 down to mins. BKW was below mins. When we got down anyone that saw it said they couldn't believe the plane was even still flying. I showed the video to our ground school instructor at Chautauqua who was a retired delta captain of like 35 years-captain at Delta at age 24...He said it's the most ice he's ever seen on any plane, and i'm lucky to be alive."

Thanks so much Brad.I know myself and some others appreciate you sharing these pics.

Jetspeed

Holy $hit that's a lot of ice!!!!!!!!!!!

SB2K

BGMann -

If Eagle was a "step up" from ACC it must have been really bad.

I cannot wait to hear what you have to say about Eagle in a few months - when the honeymoon is over.

timeless

I know Justin. I went bow fishing with him recently. I never over-nighted in Del Rio, but we did go to a house party in Huntsville, AL. That night didn't go very well, but it could have been worse. I think that is what you might be thinking of. I don't travel with a skateboard anymore. When I sold my car I accidentally left it in the trunk.

timeless

The Depot is much better than Witt's End. You can get more than enough to drink at either place for about $10.00. I keep trying to add useful info like that and other info about the farmhouse to ACC's wikipedia page, but other editors keep removing it. I also tried to add the situation about the wheel falling off 136LR, but some guy removed that too. He explained in the editors comments that it wasn't that severe, because no one died. Someone at ACC is doing some good wikipedia control.

bertramcheeks22

Jetspeed

That was it! I don't know why I was thinking Del Rio. You sold the Maxima? What are you driving now?

twebb

Someone said there was a bonus at ACC...we were told at the interview you get a 10% bonus of what your salary is every year you are there. Starting salary is 25K, then starting captain is 43K with an increase of 3K every year i believe.