took this on the way to work this morning, couldn't get sight of the tool driving this but sticker wha??????????????
took this on the way to work this morning, couldn't get sight of the tool driving this but sticker wha??????????????
Had this plane doing a bunch of touch'n'go's outside my window yesterday.
ended my work week before the weekend with a laguardia turn and starting my work week this afternoon with the same. despite the fact that going in and out of that airport is like being swallowed and spat out of a hurricane, going in there on one particular approach procedure is about the most fun you can have with your clothes on (with a hundred people and more than a hundred thousand pounds of iron strapped on to your butt).
the procedure looks deceptively uninspiring on the chart...
in reality, you look up on your first atc vector away from the airport to see an amazing view of the island of manhattan
scream across central park and midtown going balls out like a yellow cab...
carve down the west side highway, putting lady liberty on the nose. hold the heading until you can see the whites of her eyeballs then drop the left wing until the whole ship is doing a pirouette around its wingtip pointed at chinatown
go feet dry over brooklyn still in the turn, starting to drop some flaps and buzz the hipsters playing kickball in williamsburg. keep the flaps rolling out as you motor up over the traffic stopped on the brooklyn-queens expy (BQE). more flaps, gear, landing checklist early to get ready to put a bow on this thing. steady as she goes until you're right over the long island expy (LIE) then hard to starboard, don't cheat on 'er, keep it nailed over the shoulder of the westbound lanes. dump the nose over and hold the 3° descent angle by calculating half our groundspeed times ten (800 feet per minute today). quick glimpse down to grotty flushing queens where i spent every summer of my youth with my dad's side of the family. spotted- arthur ashe stadium where i went to the US open with my cousins; spotted- the restaurants and houses where the receptions and tea ceremonies took place for my cousins' weddings; spotted- the long term care facility where, over sporadic visits where i would take the 7 train to flushing still in uniform on a 4 hour layover, i watched my grandma's body shut down over the course of four years- all the while with her unable to communicate with any of the staff because she didn't speak english and we couldn't get her on to the cantonese speaking floor passed away last year; spotted- city field where... well that wasn't built yet when i was growing up.
oh shit, too much daydreaming, time to get in the game like you mean it. chop and drop, hard to port, feel the g's loading up, flushing bay sweeping across the nose, "any of you boys see a runway out here?" (there's always time for a top gun quote). airport looks like a hornet's nest with airplanes coming and going but somehow we're cleared to land. touchdown is firm, no sense in making it pretty in laguardia- the runway is valuable realestate and time is money here, double left turn exiting the rwy and then the work really starts- finding our way to the gate in rush hour traffic.
two hours later and home sweet home...
tank spotted on Bathurst
Uninspiring until you get to DIALS at least eh? lol Gotta love those curvy approaches.Originally Posted by coxSone
ended my work week before the weekend with a laguardia turn and starting my work week this afternoon with the same. despite the fact that going in and out of that airport is like being swallowed and spat out of a hurricane, going in there on one particular approach procedure is about the most fun you can have with your clothes on (with a hundred people and more than a hundred thousand pounds of iron strapped on to your butt).
the procedure looks deceptively uninspiring on the chart...
The procedure for Queenstown, NZ is pretty wild. http://www.aip.net.nz/pdf/NZQN_45.1_45.2.pdf
Quality post coxone, I have a fetish for planes.
What type of planes are you flying?
rnp is the future but imo it's still just a video game- heads down, follow the flight director/path vector (while the plane follows the 3D gps corridor in space)... whereas the beauty of the old published visual approaches is that it's all seat of your pants flying- dive and drive going on no other technology but hands and feet, the old mark I eyeball and the bag of tricks you've filled up over the course of thousands of hours of flying.
this ole bucket of bolts:
(thinking of moving to the airbus on the next bid though)
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