I just love the wet season!!
G'day nohumbug,
Wouldn't have been KWW by any chance???
"Famous" entry in acft 'snag' book .......
"Windscreen creaks on descent - frightens passengers - fe@kin terrifies pilot!!"
And in all the years.....it never was fixed so that it didn't.
Cheers
Wouldn't have been KWW by any chance???
"Famous" entry in acft 'snag' book .......
"Windscreen creaks on descent - frightens passengers - fe@kin terrifies pilot!!"
And in all the years.....it never was fixed so that it didn't.
Cheers
Silly Old Git
Does it get any better than this?? Personally, loving it!!!!
Beautiful days and nights blue harbour , scantilly clad Skandihooligan tourist sheilas.....
Flintstone, if I remember correctly it was up to....
It would be a classic to see it completed....
Regards,
OpsN.
He gripped the yoke real tightly
The altitude unwound
It seemed he could do nothing
But hurtle to the ground
To be continued……………………………….
The altitude unwound
It seemed he could do nothing
But hurtle to the ground
To be continued……………………………….
Regards,
OpsN.
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It wasnt KWW , but probably just as lemonlike- I found a few of the 210's to have windscreen creakage... especialy the maroon and white ones. Sounds like you had plenty of "fun" in them. Always found it funny how we used to get crucified for not putting the full ensemble of sunshades up on them ..when they leaked like sieves and you would be greeted by a crop of mushrooms on opening the door after a few days on tarmac .with the inerior steadile rotting in the damp darkness
It wasnt KWW , but probably just as lemonlike- I found a few of the 210's to have windscreen creakage... especialy the maroon and white ones. Sounds like you had plenty of "fun" in them. Always found it funny how we used to get crucified for not putting the full ensemble of sunshades up on them ..when they leaked like sieves and you would be greeted by a crop of mushrooms on opening the door after a few days on tarmac .with the inerior steadile rotting in the damp darkness
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OpsNormal.
That was it
Still here on my hard drive. I'll print it off, stuff it in my nav bag and work on it while I'm flying next.
Which funnily enough is how is got started. Scribbled on the back of my met and notams on the southbound night run
That was it
Still here on my hard drive. I'll print it off, stuff it in my nav bag and work on it while I'm flying next.Which funnily enough is how is got started. Scribbled on the back of my met and notams on the southbound night run
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210 windscreen creaks
Fact is, all of those Cessna windscreens creak. Stands to reason when you consider how many stress paths intersect at that area.
Guess that's why Cessna crossbrace the area when the put the birds on floats.
Guess that's why Cessna crossbrace the area when the put the birds on floats.
Remember the 14 legs mail runs anyone? Heard a few interesting ones about flaps failing on leg 3 or 4 and then flying flapless into some pretty interesting strips for the rest of the afternoon.
Also the flaps jamming at full and having to do the 'reach around' to push the wiring together to get the flaps up (sticky switch). Good times.
I personally flew into a place in the MaCarthur area and after landing had to drive the strip with a station hand and dig out sapplings from the strip cos it hadn't had mail fllown-in, in close to 2 years. Thought that extra couple of hundred metres might be nice, given that there was a rock at the end!.
Also the flaps jamming at full and having to do the 'reach around' to push the wiring together to get the flaps up (sticky switch). Good times.
I personally flew into a place in the MaCarthur area and after landing had to drive the strip with a station hand and dig out sapplings from the strip cos it hadn't had mail fllown-in, in close to 2 years. Thought that extra couple of hundred metres might be nice, given that there was a rock at the end!.
Silly Old Git
I personally flew into a place in the MaCarthur area and after landing had to drive the strip with a station hand and dig out sapplings from the strip cos it hadn't had mail fllown-in, in close to 2 years. Thought that extra couple of hundred metres might be nice, given that there was a rock at the end!.
In PNG I once had to circle for three days while the natives cut a strip 100 metres long out of the dense jungle......
14 run mail runs...!! Pffffffffft, that's nothing. The good old North East mail run out of Alice, 18 stops there when I was doing it a couple of years ago.
Used to take bets as to which stop it'd be that any new pilot would just wanna curl up and die on their first run,
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Found a couple on my computer here, will try and russle up some more.
Anyone recognise the cockpit?
Pretty sure I took this one doing the South-East Mail out of Alice
morno
Used to take bets as to which stop it'd be that any new pilot would just wanna curl up and die on their first run,
.Found a couple on my computer here, will try and russle up some more.
Anyone recognise the cockpit?
Pretty sure I took this one doing the South-East Mail out of Alice
morno
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Oi Tin, ya musta had a BP tanker traiin' ya. Was it a road train? Lucky!
IDZ it is. Now guess the leg it's flying, ....
Both pics are showing, so think the links working.
morno
....Both pics are showing, so think the links working.
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Agree OPSN, IDZ DN-TN and (he/she) is on track.
Must be after mid 1999 as its got one of those autopilot things in it. Prob not on the freighter though, as it appears to be daylight outside.
I last flew it on 26 Nov 99, for 3.8 but don't have the route in the elctronic log book.
I seem to remember a large sand ridge area like that on the 2nd last leg of the SE mail, not far south of the ranges.
richo
Must be after mid 1999 as its got one of those autopilot things in it. Prob not on the freighter though, as it appears to be daylight outside.
I last flew it on 26 Nov 99, for 3.8 but don't have the route in the elctronic log book.
I seem to remember a large sand ridge area like that on the 2nd last leg of the SE mail, not far south of the ranges.
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I remember being diverted from the northbound freight run to take an engineer from AS to a strip up near the Gulf where one of the 45-legs-a-day mail run aircraft had got stuck with a failed nose oleo.
The mail pilot (Fulch) and I had to sit on the tail while the seal was changed. The engineer had brought a bicycle pump with him to pressurise the oleo What are they charged to, 90psi?
After 30 minutes of listening to ineffective pffft, pffft noises from the front we got off, made the engineer sit on the tail while we wound a tie down rope round the oleo as a temporary 'spring' after which Fulch flew it back to AS with the gear down.*
*If anyone from CASA is reading this may or may not be true
The mail pilot (Fulch) and I had to sit on the tail while the seal was changed. The engineer had brought a bicycle pump with him to pressurise the oleo
What are they charged to, 90psi?After 30 minutes of listening to ineffective pffft, pffft noises from the front we got off, made the engineer sit on the tail while we wound a tie down rope round the oleo as a temporary 'spring' after which Fulch flew it back to AS with the gear down.*
*If anyone from CASA is reading this may or may not be true
Correct guesses all round, . Except that second photo pretty sure was between Numery and Andado Richo.
DN-TN, on the TNT run. The ASI is only indicating 135kts OpsN, so it's not doing thaaaat great,.
The photo was taken in 2005 Richo. Just because the autopilot was installed, doesn't mean it operated correctly all the time though!!
morno
. Except that second photo pretty sure was between Numery and Andado Richo.DN-TN, on the TNT run. The ASI is only indicating 135kts OpsN, so it's not doing thaaaat great,
.The photo was taken in 2005 Richo. Just because the autopilot was installed, doesn't mean it operated correctly all the time though!!
morno