Originally Posted by
cursesRedBaron
Was that near Cold Bay? Heard about it. Maybe not the same one, though.....For some reason, I though that guy was carrying a fish cargo.
FWIW, the safety record has improved a lot since then.
Better weather reporting.
Portable - or permanent GPS with terrain databases.
That ADS-B traffic reporting system.
Anyway, not near as bad as it was.
This would have been April of 1995. Horrible weather statewide, the breakup, icing, fog, snow. I felt like I was flying combat missions and wondering whether I'd make it back. I did soooo much Special VFR. We had the first gen GPS units back then. I would make my own GPS approaches to the villages on the coast because it was basically sea level and no trees or terrain. A waypoint about 2 miles straight out from the runway, another one about 1 mile out, and one at the beginning of the runway. Fly at about 500' until 1 mile out, then drop down to about 300' until I saw the runway.
I flew for Yute Air out of Bethel. You familiar with them?