Q going to Mexico
01-15-2010 | 06:29 AM
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The background of most of Colgans pilots are beech 1900 and the saab into podunk back country airports. Many of the pilots here are used to flying a non precision or arc into a non towered airport at night in icing.
Yes, Mexico will be a new and different challenge but so far we are only talking one airport, Monterey. I cant imagine how that one single airport will be just out of reach of the capabilities of the majority of pilots here.
Yes, we have a few pilots that are very capable of flying an arc into the side of a mountain in day VMC, luckily that is not the norm.
I dont see how we have gotten over 40 posts on this topic.
Yes, Mexico will be a new and different challenge but so far we are only talking one airport, Monterey. I cant imagine how that one single airport will be just out of reach of the capabilities of the majority of pilots here.
Yes, we have a few pilots that are very capable of flying an arc into the side of a mountain in day VMC, luckily that is not the norm.
I dont see how we have gotten over 40 posts on this topic.
01-15-2010 | 06:32 AM
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01-15-2010 | 02:42 PM
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The background of most of Colgans pilots are beech 1900 and the saab into podunk back country airports. Many of the pilots here are used to flying a non precision or arc into a non towered airport at night in icing.
Yes, Mexico will be a new and different challenge but so far we are only talking one airport, Monterey. I cant imagine how that one single airport will be just out of reach of the capabilities of the majority of pilots here.
Yes, we have a few pilots that are very capable of flying an arc into the side of a mountain in day VMC, luckily that is not the norm.
I dont see how we have gotten over 40 posts on this topic.
Yes, Mexico will be a new and different challenge but so far we are only talking one airport, Monterey. I cant imagine how that one single airport will be just out of reach of the capabilities of the majority of pilots here.
Yes, we have a few pilots that are very capable of flying an arc into the side of a mountain in day VMC, luckily that is not the norm.
I dont see how we have gotten over 40 posts on this topic.
01-15-2010 | 02:45 PM
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Some of us enjoy the challenge and the overnights, it's definitely not for everybody though; we have guys that bid around the Mexico stuff, which is hard to do considering no other airline covers as many markets as we do in Mexico, and I mean XJT, not mainline, we even cover more markets than some of the Mexican carriers.
01-15-2010 | 03:58 PM
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01-15-2010 | 04:25 PM
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Some of us enjoy the challenge and the overnights, it's definitely not for everybody though; we have guys that bid around the Mexico stuff, which is hard to do considering no other airline covers as many markets as we do in Mexico, and I mean XJT, not mainline, we even cover more markets than some of the Mexican carriers.
01-15-2010 | 04:43 PM
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Some like the challenge. I know I do.
01-15-2010 | 04:52 PM
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Wait, why would you have to hand-fly due to sketchy VORs? Can you not turn a heading bug? DAS is about the king of Sketchy VORs (and yes, I have flown in Mexico before), and all that means is you can't use Nav mode. I'm sure your airplane has a Heading mode, too, yes?
You know what this sounds like? Every day ops for Saab/Beech/DC-9 drivers.
Edit: What I'm saying, I guess, is that I'm confident that any airline pilot is confident in their own ability to fly under these conditions, otherwise they have no business doing the job they do. That being said, knowing that a hand-flown non-radar arc/teardrop approach was going to happen during the flight, and I could pick the pilots, I'm grabbing guys with experience in the Beech.
01-15-2010 | 04:57 PM
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Green needles!?!?! Hand fly!?!?!?!?! Sketchy VORs!?!?!?!
Wait, why would you have to hand-fly due to sketchy VORs? Can you not turn a heading bug? DAS is about the king of Sketchy VORs (and yes, I have flown in Mexico before), and all that means is you can't use Nav mode. I'm sure your airplane has a Heading mode, too, yes?
You know what this sounds like? Every day ops for Saab/Beech/DC-9 drivers.
Wait, why would you have to hand-fly due to sketchy VORs? Can you not turn a heading bug? DAS is about the king of Sketchy VORs (and yes, I have flown in Mexico before), and all that means is you can't use Nav mode. I'm sure your airplane has a Heading mode, too, yes?
You know what this sounds like? Every day ops for Saab/Beech/DC-9 drivers.
Anyway, I'm talking about disconnecting the autopilot when you're going into SLW and the autopilot starts trying to turn you 30 degrees off the final approach course. Anyway, it's been a solid year and a half for me since I've flown that plane into Mexico (or flown it, period).
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