Most Unusual Flight Conditions
04-04-2010, 07:52 AM
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Most Unusual Flight Conditions
It's that time of year in the Southeast. We've not had rain in several weeks and the pine trees are "snowing" pollen. I've seen three yellow clouds of pollen in the last week and just wondered what yall (see, I am from SC) have flown through that's unususal. Volcanic Ash, Smoke, CA's BS. 
04-04-2010, 09:55 AM
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Check out the picture in the upper right to get an idea 
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04-04-2010, 10:20 AM
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A sustained head wind of 240 kts somewhere around FL380 over CRW. Another flight going down to VPS where the whole enroute segment was continuous St. Elmoe's Fire. Was quite the distracting light show for about 30 minutes straight. On short final we had a bunch of faults and when we fianlly landed several systems failed completely. Was rather interesting.
04-04-2010, 11:59 AM
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flying jump run in a casa @ 14k saw a piece of space debris burn in to the sky in front of me, i bet it was a long way off but it made me jump, not out of the plane but in my seat, scared the **** out of me for a split second till my mind could figure out the proximity
04-04-2010, 02:21 PM
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Wow HSLD, very interesting picture!
I once flew a mission through Italy when Mount Aetna was erupting. Although our weather report and attached satelite pictures of the ash plume said we would be well clear of the ash, we encountered sparkling ice crystal / sand like particals in flight - which was probably ash that was blown off at high altitudes.
I once flew a mission through Italy when Mount Aetna was erupting. Although our weather report and attached satelite pictures of the ash plume said we would be well clear of the ash, we encountered sparkling ice crystal / sand like particals in flight - which was probably ash that was blown off at high altitudes.
04-04-2010, 02:27 PM
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A sustained head wind of 240 kts somewhere around FL380 over CRW. Another flight going down to VPS where the whole enroute segment was continuous St. Elmoe's Fire. Was quite the distracting light show for about 30 minutes straight. On short final we had a bunch of faults and when we fianlly landed several systems failed completely. Was rather interesting.
04-04-2010, 05:54 PM
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Awesomely beautiful and sort of scary picture HSLD.
For my part, it involved a duck and a beaver.
Freight run to Angoon from Juneau in a DHC-2 on floats.
Pretty decent day weatherwise.
Cruising along at about 1000 feet and I leaned forward to tune a radio to call the station agent. This only took a few seconds away from my view out the window as I dialed the frequency.
I leaned back, looked out again, and a duck was flying mad flapperishly with his sort of non-efficient looking method of flying, headed right at my face. No time to do anything.
He somehow flew through the prop in one piece and just inches above the top of the pilot's side window.
Both of us were pretty lucky.
I tuned my radios even faster after that.
For my part, it involved a duck and a beaver.
Freight run to Angoon from Juneau in a DHC-2 on floats.
Pretty decent day weatherwise.
Cruising along at about 1000 feet and I leaned forward to tune a radio to call the station agent. This only took a few seconds away from my view out the window as I dialed the frequency.
I leaned back, looked out again, and a duck was flying mad flapperishly with his sort of non-efficient looking method of flying, headed right at my face. No time to do anything.
He somehow flew through the prop in one piece and just inches above the top of the pilot's side window.
Both of us were pretty lucky.
I tuned my radios even faster after that.
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