Ferry Flight Pic of The Day
Flying a Navajo along the Amazon river at an altitude slightly lower than I put on my flight plan after leaving Macapa Brazil on the way to Argentina. It was a beautiful calm morning with really smooth air on the deck and I just couldn’t resist.
Worlds Best Toy
The Warrior Song
One of the best military videos ever, really get’s my heart pumping.
Ferry Flight Pic of The Day
Apparently they don’t like trumpet playing at the Cheddi Jagen airport in Guyana. Wasn’t really a problem because I played the flute. Don’t ask.
TOPGUN For Skydivers
We just finished hosting an Accelerated Free Fall instructors course at my dropzone Skydive Twin Cities and boy am I sore! Candidates trying to get their ratings are required to go through an intense week long program that tests their teaching ability’s along with their free fall skills. To prove they have what it takes to supervise real skydiving students the candidates go up alone or as a pair with an experienced evaluator, me the one in green and white, who plays the part of the worst student imaginable. We give them crappy unstable exits, spin uncontrollably on our belly or backs and of course never ever remember to pull. The candidates must be able to catch us, flip us over, give us the correct hand signals to fix our body position and then pull our ripcord on time, all while falling at speeds of up to one hundred fifty miles an hour. As an evaluator I’ve had students accidentally pull my pilot chute and track off with it still in his hand twice, been hit so hard I saw stars and came down with a bloody nose and had to kick candidates off me to get away when we got too low. It’s very exciting. We graduated eight instructors from the course and will soon turn them lose on real students and hope we didn’t make a mistake. In the mean time I’m going to go soak in the hot tub, did I mention I’m sore?
Ferry Flight Pic of The Day
Coming into Indonesia this mountain sits next to the runway making flying the approach as published sort of important at night, and no, there isn’t a blinking red light on top just don’t turn the wrong way.
Cody Green, Honorary Marine
You Get What You Pay For
Indian airforce loses half its planes – Telegraph.
India’s Russian MiG fighter jets have been branded ‘flying coffins’ after the government revealed more than half of its 872-strong fleet had crashed since the mid-1960s.
I guess when you have a few million extra people taking up space in your country whats a few less pilots more or less. After reading the article I think the high accident rate might not be solved by buying better aircraft.
Ferry Flight Pic of The Day
