JungleBus

When I was in school I worked on UND's flight line at GFK. Usually worked the morning shift, had many mornings of -30 to -40 WC's. We stopped flying at -50. I remember one morning that was like -30 with no wind, me and the other line guys towed the entire fleet (~100 airplanes) out of the hangars onto the flight line, and had just finished when the wind kicked up above 18 kts, which was the threshold for tying them all down. So out we went again, tying them down one by one. The ropes were all frozen so I couldn't work them with gloves on, had to take my gloves off to tie the knots... after a single airplane my hands wouldn't have any feeling in them, would jump back in the tug and fry them on the heater just to get some feeling back before proceeding to the next airplane. Took us several hours to get them all tied down, at which point the wind was high enough to push the windchill below -50. Had just finished tying down the last one when I got the call to put 'em all back in the hangar. .

I grew up in MN and consider myself pretty tough in cold weather...but North Dakota was a whole 'nuther kind of cold!

tsquare

I did that... VRC-50 C130s... Looking back at Kai Tek falling over my left shoulder, I thought about Maverick. He was bobbing up and down in the I.O. on the ready five. I was having beer at the Bottoms Up.

Xray678

Common sense is not allowed. If it's not in the manual it can't be done. At least that's was a pmnw pilot told me.

tsquare

Does she get better mileage now? Maybe I'll come up for a long weekend.

I just reread that post, and it didn't come across like I meant. What the lieutenant meant was that I would be parking my car at the MARTA station so that somebody would steal my cat converter and my car would get better mileage.

80ktsClamp

We still don't quite speak the same language.

On the 320, the after start checklist can't be done until pushback is complete is the one I don't get. It's not "before taxi" anymore! So we sit there and pick our noses burning gas waiting for the waveoff that isn't on checklist anymore...


At least we don't have a super long callout at 80 knots anymore (remember "engine instruments checked"?) and don't call out every nuance of the FMA on CAT II/III...

See, I look at both sides of the coin.

flyallnite

Anybody fly in or out of SLC today? Apparently there were 90 mph winds in the valley with a strong easterly wind setting up a big mountain wave over the Wasatch range

tsquare

Where do you find this information? I might take an early jump and go back and live in Asia for awhile...

tsquare

Funny stuff right there... and somewhat true.

I love KimChee though.

tsquare

This would create a thread of over 1000 pages on the DALPA forum.. Where's my popcorn?

1234

Why do we need more memory items. How many items are so absolutely critical, that they have to be done from memory?