By Paul Anderson of Anchorage, posted on AvWeb:

Parked amid the chunkys.

Our Tax Dollars At Work.............

How did you recognize that as a USDOI plane?

What are chunkys? Water is on the right, Correct?

Who else would land and park in the ice on anphibs when he could land on the runway not far away.........not to hard to figure out

1SeventyZ wrote:How did you recognize that as a USDOI plane?

When I worked for DOI I was just happy we landed right side up everytime...

XKV8R wrote:What are chunkys? Water is on the right, Correct?

The things that look like debris from Superman's fortress exploding.

1SeventyZ wrote:

XKV8R wrote:What are chunkys? Water is on the right, Correct?

The things that look like debris from Superman's fortress exploding.

They look much more brilliant under the red sun of Krypton

Don C....... you got it right ! when $$ not coming from your pocket why care, attitude of many gov. workers

( NO ALL, no way implying any such thing) I have not harmed and animals bring these commits to light.

By the way the noise from the ice is cool....

Actually, the photo was taken NEAR Barrow, not IN Barrow.

I put over 12,000 hours on DOI airplanes and only bent one--when the crank failed in the mountains. So, yeah, those DOI pilots are really hard on airplanes. Or is it just the folks that worked for the agency for a little while and went back to thrashing planes that other INDIVIDUALS own?

Paul Anderson is a hell of a pilot, by the way. And, if you haven't taxiied around in some trash ice like that on floats, you haven't flown much in far northern Alaska, frankly.

I remember one winter when an air taxi guy with a Beaver kept Lilly Lake in downtown Kodiak open all winter, by taxiing around while warming up, breaking HARD ice. Sounded really bad. That spring, I saw that plane out of the water, and went to look at the floats. Couldn't tell that they weren't new, which they were the fall before.....

Taxiing in candled ice like that doesn't hurt a thing, folks. Won't even take the paint off.....

Sorry you guys are so bitter about others getting paid to fly for the government....

MTV

MTV, Not sore at anyone who can make a living flying for anybody ( except Drug Running) wish we all could .....

Have my share of ice stories returning from fall bear season when things freeze hard before I get back. I also have witnessed

many pilots who aren't paying the bills who don't give a rat about the guy who does.

Be Safe Guys

Hey, I hear the drug runners make pretty good money.....

New fall ice is waaaaay different than that nasty candled out spring ice. I've busted enough fall ice as well. Never worried too much about that unless there was a crosswind.. I never saw anyone slice a hole in a float that way, but always envisioned it might happen.

MTV