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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Pickwick Lake
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| I took this video today. 3000' ice strip about 100 miles west of deadhorse, Alaska. Last edited by av8rmsu; February 5th, 2007 at 01:01. |
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| Junior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: MO
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| cool video! is there a town anywhere around? |
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| Agent Smith | Holy freeking cow it looks a little chilly out there!
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| no town...just a work camp next to an exploratory oil drilling site. i'm guessing about 40-50 people are out there at a time. we did a crew change...7 in and 9 out. and doug...the temp was about 0 F. the sun was shining and it felt pretty good out there. this video was shot around 1 in the afternoon, notice how low the sun is on the horizon. |
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| Old Skool | when i was flying home from london about a month ago, we flew over the territories and at noon the sun was just a sliver on the horizon. that would mess with my head for sure. |
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| Agent Smith | What type aircraft?
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| Old Skool | Wow, I kept looking for Firefox and an American sub to be on the runway! |
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| Agent Smith | Excellent! How's that throttle feel being on the overhead? That always seemed weird to me.
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| It takes a little getting used to at first, but its nice to not have a center console. the wierdest thing was getting used to rolling your hand forward to get into Beta. its a great airplane. |
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| You wouldn't believe it...but we have glass cockpits also. its like putting a microwave in a cave. Synthetice Vision and all! |
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| Agent Smith | Quote:
Is "increase power" forward or backwards?
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| increase is forward but after pulling it back to the stop/idle...you have to roll your hand forward and then pull back. |
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| Agent Smith | Like reverse thrust in a jet then! We've got to reach forward, grab a second set of levers and pull back. Unless you're one of those CRJ weenies or something. I could never figure those things out.
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Arizona
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| I've been to Dead Horse and a few other ice-filled/covered places up there. Maybe not that strip, but some like it. Like the video. Reminds me of my old mushing days!
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| Old Skool Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Most of the time in the air
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