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Some day, the State of Alaska will get serious, and park de-ice carts inside the garages at State village runways with the snowplows, and give pilots the combo to the door. All the sleds and caravans will be freight only, and passengers will ride in PC-12s, King Airs and 1900s above MOCA altitude. But we’re not there yet. More white people have to die first. For now, it’s easier to blame the problem on “bush pilot syndrome” or “cowboy pilots”.
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Faaster can hold a grudge. Deice all the planes. Mmmmmmmmkay?
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https://www.adn.com/opinions/letters...-dutch-harbor/
I fly "PenAir" a lot and all of the tickets say RAVN on them. Give credit where it's due. 'squatch, |
https://www.adn.com/opinions/2019/10/31/the-sobering-history-of-crashes-by-alaskas-biggest-rural-air-carrier/?fbclid=IwAR1tc3orCp45ng3K8gv3TUL6p-c1yN02j9t7PNOpubLvOJXa5XLq-uu-UP8
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NTSB has a new Aircraft Accident Investigative Update out. Here's a link.
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/...ive-Update.pdf Couple of interesting tidbits from the report. According to the flight crew, the captain was the flying pilot and the first officer was the pilot monitoring. The captain indicated he held an airline transport pilot certificate and had accumulated about 20,000 total flight hours of which about 14,000 hours were in the DH-8 and 101 hours were in the Saab 2000. The first officer indicated that he held an airline transport pilot certificate and had accumulated 1,446 total flight hours of which 147 were in the Saab 2000. Touchdown occurred with the aircraft traveling at about 129 knots indicated airspeed and 142 knots ground speed. Wonder how those speeds compare to Vref... |
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