SurClaro Flight Simulator Resources

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject:

I agree with you Bruce........... only those that have gone the distance, should get the recognition......... At the end of this first time round.

No pain.......... No gain

Mel.

I'm still here Jaeg. Boldpilot

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:42 pm Post subject:

Glad to hear it Art ......... You will need your wits about you .... Twisted Evil

Mel.

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:24 pm Post subject:

Art, you are at the top of the list and the most vocally hungry of our "Maddie's Heroes" Pilots! Not to mention the fact that you've always posted back your findings and have had a bit of fun with fictionalizing, too! That's a friendly pat on the back, or a virtual handshake from me!

I wish there were some reward to be bestowed upon you, because you definitely deserve it! You have flown each mission unfailingly and have always posted your findings and have entertained us with your much appreciated works of beautiful fictionalizing!

This reminds me to suggest that we might look into some means of rewarding our most predominant pilots. How about awarding a Maddie T-Shirt or Maddie Bracelet from the online store at http://store.findmadeleine.com/???

Art, I know that you'll agree with me when I restate that this project is not over until the fate of little Madeleine McCann is known. As Co-Creator of this project, I'm committed to keeping alive the plight of Madeleine McCann and her parents (God Bless Them)!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for unfailingly keeping in spirit with this effort!

Bruce

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:37 am Post subject:

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:13 am Post subject:

I apologize for the delay; I was in a bit of another incident.
After I had landed in Vancouver, I decided to make a hop up North to Dawson Creek to visit one of my cousins.
The flight up was just fine to a point, the good news is the plane is airworthy again and I am fixed and healed.
There is no control tower at CYDQ and it has the strangest design I have ever seen.
Parallel to the runway there is a lake, in some places it is easy access for the local critters. There is no boundary fence installed here!
I was on final approach after having announced my intentions to the local radio gods and then the strangest of things happened.
I hit a moose… Yep, that’s right, I hit a moose. Well… more correctly, I stalled the aircraft into a moose that ran on to the runway as I was flaring to land.
It was the most amazing thing in retrospect, I was inside the flight deck doing a final scan on the instruments, began to pull back on the yoke and settle into the flare and popped my scan back to the runway and there it was. A moose, at full gallop on the runway and at a lazy angle angling from left to the right and about 80 feet in front of me going more or less the same direction I was.
I death gripped the yoke and pulled back far too much and slammed the throttle levers full forward. Too late, the sink rate was to high and the power setting too low. It kind of was a sickening sound, the stall warning horn was blaring, the PT6’s were screaming, the fuselage was creaking, and then the sound of all hell breaking loose.
I caught the moose in the rump with the entire exposed portion of right main mount, it basically buckled on impact but rotated the plane forward this caused the prop to catch the head, neck, and back area of the moose.
That impact broke off a portion of one of the prop blades and bent all of the other prop blades. The pieces and parts of the moose were ingested into the turbine which caused a catastrophic FOD of the engine; it blew up and sent shrapnel into the cabin and into mostly my right arm, torso and leg. When the turbine blew up it opened the engine cowl and caused a speed brake effect, along with the moose having buckled the landing gear structure, the impact also severely bent the chord angle of the wing down.
I though for a split second about one of the crash videos I had seen in the past where a test pilot is flying a F-14A and it is having engine power problems, he said “I have the aircraft… No I don’t! EJECT, EJECT, EJECT!” I know what that feels like now, but without the ejection.
With the right engine cowls acting as a speed brake, the engine being toast and throwing pieces all over the place, mostly into me, and the wing being bent to produce down force, physics took over on the other side of the airplane. The left engine came up on power, the left wing produced lift and it was a spectacular impact starting at the right wing tip, then the nose of the aircraft and finally the left wing tip area. Kind of like a pole vaulting summersault but without any gain in height.
The aircraft skidded to a halt some 20 yards off the runway in a smoking mass and leaking every fluid there is to leak. I remained conscious for the event and was able to kick out the left side emergency exit and get out of the aircraft.
The local fire department showed up and foamed the runway, the plane, and me! Genius! Cause I might just catch on fire even though I managed to crawl some 100 feet away from the aircraft into a grass median between the runway and a taxiway and proceed to bleed all over myself.
I was given first aid and then flown back to Vancouver for further treatment. I was told I fell into a coma for several months, I don’t remember anything beyond being foamed and trying to get up to throw a rock at the fire truck and not being able to really move my right leg much and falling over. At that point the world was a surreal place with much speaking that I understood and a lot that I didn’t.

I do have some new scars to show that something was done. I apologize for not contacting anyone, I didn’t have the ability. Everything was either left in the aircraft or I didn’t remember it.

The plane has been fixed though; Transport Canada has issued a clean bill of health to the aircraft and to me to resume flying.

I think the next hop is to Durango, Mexico.

Aw guy's your making me blush [as if I could] from all those kind words . I would like to say " How I have enjoyed these flights and the weather tweaks therein" Also the imaginations of the pilots which occasionaly run riot . Hopefully after this series of flights are completed another series can be introduced for the old and bold pilots on the forum which is just as entertaining. Thanks guys. Boldpilot

PS I will shortly be reporting back on flight 18 when Viche posts it;unless Mel has arranged things for us to be at the bottom of a smoking hole in the tundra somewhere near the Arctic circle. BP

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:20 am Post subject:

Thanks for the help Mel, I appreciate it. If it wasn't for you, I'm sure sometime soon, some old Aussie would be knocking on my door. And I don't think he will be as happy to see me, as I would be to see him.

Art, when I get my rig finally where I need and want it, I WILL have a surprise for you. It will be in 3 stages, and stage one is done. When all 3 stages are done, you will get it.

Thanks also, for the gentle nudges.

RD

Thanks. Sounds interesting RD but we have all experienced your suprises before .BP

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:37 am Post subject:

Aww, gee whiz.

I thought you liked my surprises. Well except maybe the Maddie Flights. Laughing

RD

I am still flying the 747 you did for me in RAF 70 squadron livery and the surprise version in show livery. Thanks still. BP

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:16 pm Post subject:

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject:

Haw-haw-haw! Can't wait to see whot's up yer sleeve, Mel!

Perhaps a false, break away hand with a bloody stump and a gush of faux blood or a spring loaded boxing glove! Just to let you know, I'm an old fan of Popeye cartoons and still eats me daily dose of spinach even to this day!

"Pow...Zoom! To the moon, Alice!"
Ralph Crandall (Jackie Gleason) "The Honeymooners!"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042114/

Laughing

Jaeg-

Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:15 am Post subject:

Hey guys.

So sorry for the delay. As you know, I'm living on campus at UCI...and I forgot to bring the website files up with me! Aggghhh. Anyways, I'm back at San Diego for the weekend and will upload the flight tomorrow.

Cheers!

Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:42 am Post subject:

Thanks Vince ........ Hows it going BTW.

Mel.