Oh, the humanity....

Bet they wouldn't have enjoyed spending a few winter days with me in the dark at 40 below loading, unloading, flying a lowly Sled in the shit, fueling with frozen fingers, scraping ice, hauling off/on wing and engine covers in a blow, etc, etc, etc....

http://alaskadispatch.com/article/20130 ... es-reality

Gump

GumpAir wrote:Bet they wouldn't have enjoyed spending a few winter days with me....

Gump

Willing to bet you wouldn't have enjoyed spending a few winter days with them either.

It was bad enough with fellow company pilots whining...

Gump

As the saying goes: "What's the difference between a pilot and a turbine engine?......The turbine engine stops whining when it gets to the gate."

MTV

My Alaskan flying experience is relatively minimal--that's where I learned, but
I had maybe 100 hours when we left after I got out of the USAF. But the rest of the story is sure familiar--young corporate jet jockeys in their epaulet-festooned shirts and ties, scrambled egg 50 mission caps, shiney Justin boots, complaining about the FBO's food choices while I had just finished loading my passengers' luggage and was anxious to get going in the Skylane, because while I was current as was the airplane, SE 135 didn't allow IFR flight, and that Montana front was creeping down toward us. They definitely have a different (and somewhat warped) perspective--a lot like the rest of today's "entitlement" generation from whence they come.

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Cut them some slack boys. KTN is no picnic with 1 mi. and 300ft. It is in the bottom of a channel where there is typically a tailwind on the approach in the winter time, especially if it is snowing. You reach DH approximately 4 miles from the threshold then it's visual the rest of the way. I image it's slightly intimidating at 150kts approach speed if you're just up from the United States and never done it before. You blow it, you smack the rocks. It is no less a "real" Alaska flying experience than flying 0/0 into one of those villages up north without an obstacle in sight.