407 Driver Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 You cried when you left? What happened? did the freight shift and pinch your toes ?? I spent a tour there, or more correctly, about an hour north on Baffin (Fury and Hecla Straights) We'd fly into Igloolik or Hall for a break. After my tour was finished, my flight to Montreal was cancelled, so instead of burning a week of my time-off waiting for the next flight, I hitch-hiked a ride on an old DC-3 to Churchill and Winnipeg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Floe Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 No, The reason we left is the maggots ate all of the food! :shock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles W. Posted February 15, 2004 Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 The Arctic is for pussies, real men fly the Sahara Desert during the Harmatten sand storms...... :up: And real men come from N.F.L.D. :up: Chas W. ( Reverend ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrtSc Posted February 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 CTD Single pilot in the summer, two-pilot quasi-IFR (night VFR) in winter. Tough job. Long distances, always on the edge of your fuel, long waits, poor wx reporting and forecasting. Not for the faint of heart. Now listen to this guy, he did one tour in which him and BR tried to get to Rowley Island and turned back, never to venture outside for the next 3 weeks. :up: tag your it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTD Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 Was it Rowley Island? I thought it was Unpronouncable Lake between Longstaff and Dewar. At any rate, I've been trying to forget it. I knew we shouldn't have left that day - talk about an exercise in stupidity and lousy PDM. Snowstorm on the way, almost no chance of getting home, but 'we' decided to launch anyway because the lads were stuck with a dead machine. It was snowing, dark, 55 miles offshore at 6000' over Foxe Basin with the contrast of the water and broken ice just barely visible through the chin, and we started getting autopilot hardovers. You bet we turned around, on my insistance, and we arrived in Hall Beach shooting an illegal IFR approach on the RadAlt and GPS, and got the runway strobes at 0.8 DME. One of the stupidest things I've ever done in a helicopter. I don't think we were there for an additional three weeks, we left a couple days later. You're right, I never went back, but that was because I landed the job at Bell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrtSc Posted February 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 So you did a illegal approach, just curious as to what the amount of the fine was. How much did the captain get dinged with, and you must know. I would quess that you helped him pay it. Cusssssss, I know you would have reported it :up: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTD Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 Yup - imagine that. Sadly, it's not the only illegal thing I've done to save my stupid ***. How about you? You seem to know a lot about the place, why start a thread asking about it? Is there a point to this little exercise, or just trying to have some fun? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles W. Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 Anyone who has not broken the rules because they fu..ed up hasen't flown long enough to learn how to stay alive. I have never met CTD but I think I'm getting to know him.... Sounds like he has a lot of this business figured out, and I for one would fly with him. Rev. Chas W. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrtSc Posted February 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 Actually i know very little about Hall Beach, I do know that they do not/did not have a approved GPS approach, tsk tsk tsk. So what else illegal have we done :up: :up: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullcap Posted February 26, 2004 Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 Prstp; He did say it was an illegal approach, duh. I once flew around for awhile and the wx got bad and had to land because it was really snowing hard and when landing it was probably below vfr limits. Hmm, guess it would have been better to keep flying away from the bad wx until we got out of the storm, ran low on fuel, waited overnight in freezing temps, had no fuel to get home the next day,put common sense and safety aside, tried using the toilet paper filled sleeping bag supplied by the company, maybe even froze to death, but hey, wouldn't have broke any law. Old saying comes to mind about dieing is cheap and living ain't easy. Its is one thing to be out looking for trouble and it finds you and another about trying to stay clean and trouble sneaks up behind ya and bites you on the ***. Me thinks this is what the boys are trying to say. Never met a sole that didn't break a rule or a law sometime doing something, remember the golden rule, no 407 no THAT Golden rule. sc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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