I wish I had a dollar for every time I did the first few minutes of this video
Come to think of it I did get more then a dollar every time I did that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1oPB4IWNJg

Good find, Don!

That cliff near the end looks a lot like the one that the T-Craft was dangling from a couple years back.

Sooooo, Don. How much would you give back to be able to be back then and doing it again?

Think they were a LITTLE heavy?

MTV

mtv wrote:Think they were a LITTLE heavy?

MTV

Poor technique for sure Mike

Portage Creek wrote:Sooooo, Don. How much would you give back to be able to be back then and doing it again?

Give back nothing PC Feel like I earned every penny. Have to admit I miss the old days and have a little sellers remorse. Liked the challenge and getting it done. Retirement is not all it is cracked up to be. Feel like I should be doing something other then pheasant hunting and walleye fishing

Had a good run with some good pilots and allowed an idiot like me to build a successful business. That's what counts I guess.............

"Give back nothing PC Feel like I earned every penny. Have to admit I mess the old days and have a little sellers remorse. Liked the challenge and getting it done. Retirement is not all it is cracked up to be. Feel like I should be doing something other then pheasant hunting and walleye fishing"

Don: Sorry you feel that you should be doing something other than shooting birds and fishing for those little fish, maybe come over and try crabbing?

And retirement not being all it is cracked up to be, don't you mow the lawn?

As I watched your video, I was thinking that this guy forgot he was not in a boat! I did like seeing the AK Airmen's building where we tied up while visiting. You are right on one count, wish we had spent more time in AK but very glad we got a teeny taste of it. Should have mooched off of PC like others did.

" I did like seeing the AK Airmen's building where we tied up while visiting. You are right on one count, wish we had spent more time in AK but very glad we got a teeny taste of it. "

I kind of liked that building myself Ford spent 20 years operating from there, saw a lot of things happen on the lake from that location

Don,
although I have been lurking here at BCP for a while I find I rarely am in a position to add to the conversation: I am the listen and learn type anyway. That being said I am going to break my rule and make two comments.

While watching the Cub takeoff I immediately said to myself out loud, push the nose down push the nose down your dragging the heals. I had to laugh at myself because I have zero cub float time. I do have a touch over 1000 hours in my 150 tripacer on 2000s and she will not tolerate any pitch foolishness, that is, unless you want to really piss of the Hood controllers after ones third attempt to get airborne. I might have her figured out now but I would never say that out loud least she proves otherwise.

I wanted to add that I have learned much just hanger flying from those retired 135 pilots that hang around and more then a couple of times I have had one walk up to me and say something like, get that nose up and carry a little more power and she will land a lot nicer. The other day i had a retired 82 year old pilot in my shop and while he was in awe of the birds in my shop I was much more impressed by his experience.

about your foto: i soloed at lake hood on floats. When I get to town on floats or skis I still tell Hood tower that I am parking between Jim Air and Ketchems. Some of them get it, most do not know who I am talking about. I can never recall Airmen's Point.

Rocket

about your foto: i soloed at lake hood on floats. When I get to town on floats or skis I still tell Hood tower that I am parking between Jim Air and Ketchems. Some of them get it, most do not know who I am talking about. I can never recall Airmen's Point.

Rocket

It was Air Guides point for over 30 years. Sea Airmotive started there then moved across the lake. Bill Cunningham operated there for several yrs with his Widgeon and other A/C. till 1975 when we bought it. Spent 20 yrs operating from there.........sold to Jim Air in 1995 who operated for a few yrs till the FAA decided he should look into some other field of work and pulled his 135 cert. He sold it to the Alaska Airman's Association. Lake Hood Web cam is located on the Airmen's bldg. so anytime I get home sick I just watch camera for awhile

And here I thought everyone in Alaska had big engines on there airplanes

DonC wrote:I wish I had a dollar for every time I did the first few minutes of this video
Come to think of it I did get more then a dollar every time I did that

I always figured a dollar a minute my average flying wage up there. About 84,000 flight minutes a year.

Hate to think what it COSTS me now per minute just to go putt around.

Gump

Throttle Pusher wrote:And here I thought everyone in Alaska had big engines on there airplanes

Not all have big engines but most have big tires....U might want to look into that

GumpAir wrote:

DonC wrote:I wish I had a dollar for every time I did the first few minutes of this video
Come to think of it I did get more then a dollar every time I did that

I always figured a dollar a minute my average flying wage up there. About 84,000 flight minutes a year.

Hate to think what it COSTS me now per minute just to go putt around.

Gump

Gezze Gump that sounds like pretty good $$$ 84,000 a year. That might be enough to bring some of us old has beens out of retirement. No just kidding. I can think of several minutes
I would have gave up hundreds of $$ just to get out a situation

Don,

Thanks for the history lesson on that part of LHD.

I never based out of there, but I operated in and out of "Fish and Wildlife Cove" many times over the years. Last time I flew in there, the Hood controller didn't know where Fish and Wildlife Cove was.

Progress?

Lots of history in those lakes.

MTV

mtv wrote:Don,

Thanks for the history lesson on that part of LHD.

I never based out of there, but I operated in and out of "Fish and Wildlife Cove" many times over the years. Last time I flew in there, the Hood controller didn't know where Fish and Wildlife Cove was.

Progress?

Lots of history in those lakes.



MTV

An old pic of Lake Hood looks a lot different today

That photo points out the reason I used the term "those" lakes in reference to what we now call "Lake Hood". In fact, there were two lakes...Lake Hood and Lake Spenard. The West Channel connected the two, then they dug the slow taxi channel.

Last time I was in Anchorage Int. terminal, I remember seeing a series of aerial photos from different times, showing that progression. Really cool historical photos of that whole area. I still think it's cool to have the Lake Hood controllers standing back to back with the ANC International tower controllers in the same tower cab.

MTV

mtv wrote: I still think it's cool to have the Lake Hood controllers standing back to back with the ANC International tower controllers in the same tower cab.
MTV

That ANC tower is pretty tall and has worked to my advantage a few time when they were in the fog and I wasn't on the lake Transponders and radar made that a little more difficult later on.

Wow that looks different