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alaskaflyer

alaskaflyer

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I haven't looked at my logbook but I'm guessing it has been more than six weeks since my last flight in the 170. Been too busy. Which is a shame because we are experiencing incredible weather here (finally!)

On the other hand in the last three weeks I have flown as a passenger or flight manager in an A-Star A350B3, a MD500, a Beaver on floats, a turbine Otter on floats, a C206 on floats, and a Found Bushhawk on wheels.

Sunday morning we had an interesting situation where we had to "improve" (to use the dry government term) a helispot for the MD500 on on the side of a 40 degree talus slope, so we could be extracted from a rescue. Piled about 1000 lbs of rock to form a platform.

Anyone else fly for work?
 
alaskaflyer said:
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Sunday morning we had an interesting situation where we had to "improve" (to use the dry government term) a helispot for the MD500 on on the side of a 40 degree talus slope, so we could be extracted from a rescue. Piled about 1000 lbs of rock to form a platform.

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Mercy. That sounds something like work.
 
Not that long ago I had to make a flight to pick someone up for a local function. I was safe, but had just gotten over being ill and, if I had my druthers, would not have made the flight. I had to make it anyway. It was the first time in my life that I was very, very glad I was not a professional pilot.
 
Ghery said:
Nope. Just ride pressurized aluminum mailing tubes to get to meetings here and there. The Netherlands this time.
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Uh oh. I'm over here right now too, and the wx is just terrible! Although you might be used to it since you're from the north! :goofy:
 
sba55 said:
Uh oh. I'm over here right now too, and the wx is just terrible! Although you might be used to it since you're from the north! :goofy:
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I commented to a co-worker who lives in Belgium that the Dutch were just trying to make me feel at home. :D And the drive out from Amsterdam to Groningen wasn't much for sightseeing with the low clouds and rain.
 
Ghery said:
I commented to a co-worker who lives in Belgium that the Dutch were just trying to make me feel at home. :D And the drive out from Amsterdam to Groningen wasn't much for sightseeing with the low clouds and rain.
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Well, I'm in Markgroningen right now, and the sightseeing is just as poor. Or non-existent, really. I don't think I've ever been this bored!
 
sba55 said:
Well, I'm in Markgroningen right now, and the sightseeing is just as poor. Or non-existent, really. I don't think I've ever been this bored!
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A touch north of Stuttgart, I see. I was there in February (Stuttgart) and the weather was much better then. Oh well, I'm not here for sightseeing, but work.
 
steingar said:
Not that long ago I had to make a flight to pick someone up for a local function. I was safe, but had just gotten over being ill and, if I had my druthers, would not have made the flight. I had to make it anyway. It was the first time in my life that I was very, very glad I was not a professional pilot.
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Doesn't going to work when you don't really feel like it come with the territory of being a professional anything? That's why they pay you. :dunno:
 
Ghery said:
A touch north of Stuttgart, I see. I was there in February (Stuttgart) and the weather was much better then. Oh well, I'm not here for sightseeing, but work.
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Yes. Well, have fun working! When are you going back? UA?
 
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