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04-16-2014, 09:01 PM
#51
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Originally Posted by Akbush
I did 55 straight across gusting 70 out on the coast once in the caravan going into hooper bay....it was a hell of a rush lol only managed cause i didnt check the weather machine before...otherwise i think it would have scared me away from trying when i heard the number. It kept me from taking off on the runway after i checked the machine...i used the ramp and departed into the wind instead.
Akbush, this is a pilot forum. If you have an urge to write more fiction or fantasy you need to put your post in a creative writing forum.
04-17-2014, 05:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Akbush
No it doesnt...thats a bunch of POH malarky....you use alot of power and no flaps by driving it on around 100 knots with upwind wheel on the ground. Adding a crap load of power...throwing the nose forward at the same time to use the momentum and increased airflow over the tail. Any other way wont work. You can get any airplane on the ground way way outside crosswind component if you throw some weight and momentum into it. Multi engines work better.....you can put one engine at higher power and the other at idle or vice verse.
Most pilots would have just said, you can add power on the upwind engine to counteract weathervane in a strong cross wind.
Have you ever actually flown an airplane? Because based on your description above you sound like a young kid trying to describe something he doesn't really understand.
04-17-2014, 06:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Airhoss
Uhhhhhm.......
Most pilots would have just said, you can add power on the upwind engine to counteract weathervane in a strong cross .
Most pilots would have just said, you can add power on the upwind engine to counteract weathervane in a strong cross .
04-17-2014, 09:29 AM
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Multi engines work better.....you can put one engine at higher power and the other at idle or vice verse.
Have you ever felt a 75 kt gust? I wouldn't untie and taxi a light airplane in those conditions much less fly one. And yes I have extensive Ak bush flying time much of it on the North Slope.
04-17-2014, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Airhoss
Slats that ^^^^^^ is what our famous bush hero posted and that is what I was responding to. Do you for a second believe that he landed in a 50 gust to 75Kt direct X-wind in a caravan?
Have you ever felt a 75 kt gust? I wouldn't untie and taxi a light airplane in those conditions much less fly one. And yes I have extensive Ak bush flying time much of it on the North Slope.
Have you ever felt a 75 kt gust? I wouldn't untie and taxi a light airplane in those conditions much less fly one. And yes I have extensive Ak bush flying time much of it on the North Slope.
04-19-2014, 07:13 AM
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Had a 120kt crosswind one time. Landed in the parking lot at the terminal next to my pregnant passenger's car so she didn't need to walk that far. Funny story, she didn't start the flight pregnant.
I got about 1100hrs in the van. That rudder barely keeps the thing pointed straight in calm winds.
I got about 1100hrs in the van. That rudder barely keeps the thing pointed straight in calm winds.
04-19-2014, 07:59 AM
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There I was flat on my back pulling 9 negative G's. It's tough to do in a Cessna 207 but when the Ruskies invade sometimes as an Alaskan bush pilot you get the first call from the big guy, the head honcho, El Persidente! It was just me and my S&W .44 Mag and four Mig 25's coming in hot and with bad intent.
The old workhorse of the bush the 207 she ain't much to look at but she's got some tricks up her sleeve. Those Backfires never saw me coming I rolled inverted and pulled through the mach then pushed hard into a 9 G negative climb. I made my gun pass by sticking my .44 Mag out the side window and yanking the trigger of that chrome plated, mother of pearl gripped, hand cannon as fast as I could. Flames burst from the muzzle momentarily blinding me as I had night my night vision set to "pitch black". The HUD was showing that I was dangerously close to the inverted mach buffet/wing structural fail limit. So I pulled the old IO 520 back out of full burner into max climb power, kicked full left rudder and did a wifferdoodle flipzipper coming around perfectly on the 6'O'clock postion of the tail end Ruskie. It was only then that I noticed that the two lead aircraft were now molten balls of flame. Two more notches on the imitation mother of pearl hand grips for me.
The remaining two belligerents immediately surrendered, knowing without a doubt that they were outgunned, out air framed and out flown, resistance from them was futile. I quickly dialed up the AWOS over in PAOT, Kotzebue, AK International airport and guardian of the top of the world. My heart sank as the AWOS came through, the wind was 50 gusting to 94 Kts straight across all runways. I had to let my prized Ruskie prisoners go! It takes a bush pilot to land in those conditions and I knew that these guys clearly weren't up to the challenge. I tapped out a morse code message in Ruskanzisch to my hapless prey. "Return to your motherland..STOP... I will have mercy on your worthless souls...STOP...If you ever come to these shores again you will meet the fate of your friends NOW BE GONE!
Just another day in the life of an Alaskan BUSH PILOT!
The old workhorse of the bush the 207 she ain't much to look at but she's got some tricks up her sleeve. Those Backfires never saw me coming I rolled inverted and pulled through the mach then pushed hard into a 9 G negative climb. I made my gun pass by sticking my .44 Mag out the side window and yanking the trigger of that chrome plated, mother of pearl gripped, hand cannon as fast as I could. Flames burst from the muzzle momentarily blinding me as I had night my night vision set to "pitch black". The HUD was showing that I was dangerously close to the inverted mach buffet/wing structural fail limit. So I pulled the old IO 520 back out of full burner into max climb power, kicked full left rudder and did a wifferdoodle flipzipper coming around perfectly on the 6'O'clock postion of the tail end Ruskie. It was only then that I noticed that the two lead aircraft were now molten balls of flame. Two more notches on the imitation mother of pearl hand grips for me.
The remaining two belligerents immediately surrendered, knowing without a doubt that they were outgunned, out air framed and out flown, resistance from them was futile. I quickly dialed up the AWOS over in PAOT, Kotzebue, AK International airport and guardian of the top of the world. My heart sank as the AWOS came through, the wind was 50 gusting to 94 Kts straight across all runways. I had to let my prized Ruskie prisoners go! It takes a bush pilot to land in those conditions and I knew that these guys clearly weren't up to the challenge. I tapped out a morse code message in Ruskanzisch to my hapless prey. "Return to your motherland..STOP... I will have mercy on your worthless souls...STOP...If you ever come to these shores again you will meet the fate of your friends NOW BE GONE!
Just another day in the life of an Alaskan BUSH PILOT!
04-19-2014, 09:18 AM
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My personal cutoff in AK was 45, considering taxiing became an issue in anything more. The 207 could do 45 knots of heading or crosswind rather easily though. Never flew the scareavan up there., most I ever did in that was 15 knots, but that's due to it being a skydiving operation, so I have no ideas about what it can actually do. 75 sounds stupid though.
Guess my statement about personalities vs culture did have some merit after all.
Guess my statement about personalities vs culture did have some merit after all.
Last edited by aviatorhi; 04-19-2014 at 09:32 AM.
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