Not so exotic at 11.45pm... On the plus side, the Yacht Club was accepting applications. And the airport grill produced an outstanding cheeseburger.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Captain of the Naiad
Not so exotic at 11.45pm... On the plus side, the Yacht Club was accepting applications. And the airport grill produced an outstanding cheeseburger.
Friday, January 25, 2019
Noticeable Difference
One noticeable difference between taking your shirts to the laundry in the U.S.A. or in Bahrain, when your shirts are returned to you in Bahrain they are delivered in a nice box, they have been precisely folded with a bit of paperboard in the middle, and they are wrapped in tissue paper. Like off the shelf new.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Definitely NOT SCC ~ Deadhorse
This is definitely not SCC - Deadhorse - but if you take away the tall building this place is just as flat.
Welcome to Bahrain where the local time is the exact opposite of the clock at home. Today's weather 75 degrees Fahrenheit, widespread dust, zero precipitation, 53% humidity with 17 mph winds.
Enjoy your stay.
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Friday, January 18, 2019
Changing View
The changing view over the past few months has taken us on a journey we truly did not expect. We knew it would be different but did not comprehend that it would be a game changer.
Lesson learned today: when the view changes hold on tight.
*update - Guam
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Monday, October 15, 2018
Worth remembering on that next rough day...
Good afternoon Chief Pilot Claseman,
On Tuesday 4/4/17, EAC charter flight 925 went to Barrow from Fairbanks in a DC9. Here is how it went:
We took six pipes (each 1700 lbs and 40' long), six or seven galvanized poles (20' long and several hundred pounds each) and the rest of the aircraft space was filled with hand jive bundles of foam board (4x8 sheets in bundles - a two-man job to move each bundle around).
This load was trying, to put it mildly. I am no stranger to the "charter style" load or to the use of tools like the pipe stinger to get items out of the plane. In addition, I had a good co-pilot (Tollefson) and a good cargo agent (Kou Thao). We even had someone from SKW come up from the ground and help. We also had use of a loader/stinger combo for the piping. With all this preparation and skill, we still had a ground time of just over 4 hours. None of this time was spent waiting. It was all spent in the offload process, beginning with hand-carrying all of the bundles over the top of the pipes, and ending with triple picking the longer pipes to get them out far enough to swing clear. The foam alone took almost an hour, the 20' pipes another hour and the 40' pipes took the remaining 2 hours.
Adding to the situation was a temperature around zero, and wind out of the east at 20 knots. The metal may not feel this -18 degree bite of windchill, but those of us with our hands in the wind to signal the loader, or standing on the ground guiding the other end of those pipes sure felt it.
I will pity anyone who is sent on a similar charter any less prepared. Without the tools and personnel I had, we may have been forced to spend the night there.
Additionally, in planning future flights of this nature we should consider more closely ground time requirements. We were planned to continue on for two mail runs from SCC after this charter stop. There is no way that would have been possible after such a long offload. Weather is what ultimately stopped us from SCC runs that day.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to call or e-mail me.
Thanks,
J. G.
DC9 Captain
On Tuesday 4/4/17, EAC charter flight 925 went to Barrow from Fairbanks in a DC9. Here is how it went:
We took six pipes (each 1700 lbs and 40' long), six or seven galvanized poles (20' long and several hundred pounds each) and the rest of the aircraft space was filled with hand jive bundles of foam board (4x8 sheets in bundles - a two-man job to move each bundle around).
This load was trying, to put it mildly. I am no stranger to the "charter style" load or to the use of tools like the pipe stinger to get items out of the plane. In addition, I had a good co-pilot (Tollefson) and a good cargo agent (Kou Thao). We even had someone from SKW come up from the ground and help. We also had use of a loader/stinger combo for the piping. With all this preparation and skill, we still had a ground time of just over 4 hours. None of this time was spent waiting. It was all spent in the offload process, beginning with hand-carrying all of the bundles over the top of the pipes, and ending with triple picking the longer pipes to get them out far enough to swing clear. The foam alone took almost an hour, the 20' pipes another hour and the 40' pipes took the remaining 2 hours.
Adding to the situation was a temperature around zero, and wind out of the east at 20 knots. The metal may not feel this -18 degree bite of windchill, but those of us with our hands in the wind to signal the loader, or standing on the ground guiding the other end of those pipes sure felt it.
I will pity anyone who is sent on a similar charter any less prepared. Without the tools and personnel I had, we may have been forced to spend the night there.
Additionally, in planning future flights of this nature we should consider more closely ground time requirements. We were planned to continue on for two mail runs from SCC after this charter stop. There is no way that would have been possible after such a long offload. Weather is what ultimately stopped us from SCC runs that day.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to call or e-mail me.
Thanks,
J. G.
DC9 Captain
Monday, October 8, 2018
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
767 Type
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| Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings announced an order today to convert nine 767 passenger airplanes into Boeing Converted Freighters (BCF). Seen here is an artist's rendition of an Atlas 767 BCF. Photo from the interwebs and downloaded as an open source. |
Congratulations!
For earning another type on your certificate!
The sky really is the limit.
Extra bonus as this type is a two-fer 757/767.
Do you want to know more about the meaning of the aviation term 'type'?
Click HERE to read an article from the AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) website.
Thursday, July 12, 2018
DC9 Departs OTZ
DC9 departing Ralph Wien Memorial Airport Kotzebue Alaska July 6, 2018. Video taken by our friend S. Keller. Clear skies and a show of excellent airmenship. Congratulations Captain Josh!
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Augustine Volcano & the Cook Inlet
Augustine Volcano, a center dome cluster type volcano, in the Cook Inlet is in the center of the photo and stands alone in the inlet. According to the Alaska Volcano Observatory the most recent activity (outside of just steaming) was in 2015.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2018
There is no place like Nome
A short trip around the village of Nome while the crew of flight 995 wait for the weather to clear in Kotzebue.
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Friday, June 1, 2018
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Saturday, February 17, 2018
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