Unnecessary OverWater

[Randy Sohn]

Never been to Wake

First time I ever went into Wake was when I was flying as CP on a VC-54D (one of the VIP bitds we had at Offutt AFB at Omaha), been try'n to recall if that was where that shipwreckage was just off-shore?

best, randy

[Randy Sohn]

used to cross the Big Pond at 9000 eastbound and 10,000 going west

Yup - chuckle!

best, randy (a "Buc-buc-buhgwhhhaackkkkk" squawk from the chicken here)

[Randy Sohn]

read and assimilate the teachings of JD

Thomasina, sure was great to see someone here mention John!

best, randy

[Stephanie Belser]

Just being a devil's advocate, how many of us have had a cruise flight engine failure?

*raises hand*

[Terry Carraway]

Do tell?

[Scott Dyer HPN/NY]

Do tell?

I'm pretty sure Steph is referring to her engine out landing at Kingston/Ulster (20N), a nasty little field for that type of activity. She described it on Avsig at the time, and I shake my head whenever I fly over that field.

[Gil Buettner]

Had to shut down an engine about 200 miles out over the Atlantic at night because of a fire warning. We immediately did a 180 and were losing altitude. The other three got us back to Langley where we learned the problem was a defective fire warning system. But we had emptied two bottles of extinguisher into that engine, so it wasn't going to run again for a while.

[Bill Bridges]

Had to shut down an engine about 200 miles out over the Atlantic at night because of a fire warning. We immediately did a 180 and were losing altitude. The other three got us back to Langley where we learned the problem was a defective fire warning system. But we had emptied two bottles of extinguisher into that engine, so it wasn't going to run again for a while.

In SE Asia we would get a Fire Warning from time to time in the UH-1s. Normally it was a false alarm caused by the heat from that tropical paradise. We were so jaded that every time we would get a Fire Alarm we'd have the CE lean out and check to see if we were burning.