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Old 8th Dec 2017, 06:34
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blind pew
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
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No clobber although I bought a US army surplus lined raincoat for wandering around ANC during winter.
We had them as emergency enroute diversions just in case of a fire or something else catastrophic.
Our airline was belt and braces and a piece of string ..including having armed sky rangers in the 80s.
Sadly the airline, like many first rate carriers, is no longer with us after an on board fire led to a loss when the crew couldn’t get it down on time.
Interestingly our topo for the region was a national geographical magazine free handout as there wasn’t anything else available. Enroute safety altitude iirc was 14,000 ft over Greenland as the map showed a snow covered 12,000ft plateau as no other information was available (to us).
I thought we would have to be extremely lucky to get away with a fire and the most likely scenario of lobbing into Sondestroem would be a decompression which happened occasionally and would have left us with insufficient fuel to reach anywhere civilised.
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