Ferry Flight Pic Of The Day
Here’s a shot of where you cross the east coast of Greenland on the route from Reykjavik to Narsaruaq. It’s also the point where going down means being in an arctic survival situation opposed to survival at sea. The raft and survival suit would still come in handy though.
Ferry Flight Pic Of The Day
Last time in Iceland my co-pilot Stu, camerman John and I had the opportunity to go through the ocean survival course at the Landsbjorg Maritime safety and survival training center. Those guys had a great gig. They had been given an old car ferry that they converted into a training ship. They spent the summer sailing around Iceland teaching fishermen how to survive if they fell overboard or their ship sank. The three of us donned our survival suits and after the training course were treated to a dip in the north Atlantic in November. Good fun.
More Plane Than Sense
Do Cirrus pilots have a safety problem? – Golf Hotel Whiskey.
A good article about how Cirrus pilots think that just because they are rich enough to afford the best plane on the market, in their opinion, that makes them great pilots. I think part of the problem is student pilots these days go to flight schools with brand new aircraft, have young clean cut instructors in shiny uniforms and only fly in good weather. They never run into any real problems during training and are totally unprepared when it happens out in the real world. The sky doesn’t care how much money you have in the bank or how beautiful your wife is, only how good a pilot you are.
Duck!
Interesting shot of me a split second after letting go of the Otter. It looks like the tail is going to smite me but I’m pretty sure it missed, I think, I don’t really remember. I don’t even remember the dive..hmmmm.
No Autographs Please
Pilot Kerry McCauley’s profile
Well I made my big debut on TV last night and I’m sure literally tens of people now know my name. The episode of Dangerous Flights introduces me to the show and has me and my co-pilot Stu Sprung flying an F33 Bonanza to Brazil. I’m really happy with the job the editors did with the show and I don’t think I come off as the Bozo hack pilot that I really am. The show is only airing in Canada for now so if you’re in the US you will have to wait six months to see it.
Xmas List IV
The list of things I want to buy when I win the lottery is starting to get kind of long and on the top of the list is an Extra 300, or comparable aerobatic plane. I would love to own a plane that you could yank and bank almost as hard as you want. It would be nice to have two seats so I can take my friends up, and make then sick.
Ferry Flight Pic of The Day
I love flying low. Getting down in the weeds and really seeing the landscape you’re crossing is one of the greatest joys in aviation a pilot can have. Unfortunately most pilots are either not skilled enough, mis-informed or just plain too scared to leave the nose bleed section and take a seat on the fifty yard line. Ferry flying provides some great opportunities to drop down to treetop level, if there are trees, and enjoy the sense of speed and exhilaration you get when the ground becomes a blur beneath your wings. I’ve been lucky enough to have the opportunity to play in the fjords and glaciers of Greenland, skim the ocean of sand dunes over the Sahara, cut a wake through the mist coming off the jungle of the Amazon and African rainforest and snake my way along dozens of rivers like the Amazon pictured above. Buzzing the Amazon after leaving Macapa Brazil is one of my favorite things to do. Seeing the natives paddling their long dugout canoes along the smooth brown water miles from anywhere brought to mind scenes from old National Geographic magazines. Along the river are scattered fishing huts where families somehow eek out a living and children come running down their long docks to wave as we zoom by. It’s tricky to get good pictures while concentrating on not tying the low altitude flying record but I did manage to get a few good ones. If you click on the photo above and zoom in you can see a young boy on the dock with two people in a canoe below in the water.
