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HI KIDS
As some of you know, I deliver all types of airplanes all over the country, even around the world. I recently delivered a 500B from Commander Services, Stockton CA to Central Air in Kansas city. The trip started with he delivery of a new American Champion Scout, on 31" tundra tires, from Caldwell ID to Moab UT. I checked the new owner out (great fun flying in the spectacular canyons!), then flew the "crowd killer" to CA. The 500B was just out of an extensive annual and had a new long shrike nose as well as the Central Air boost pump mod. The boost pumps are removed from the fuel sump and installed in the engine nacelle, great improvement!!
John Vormbaum had already test flown it so when I got there it was "squawk free". I blasted off and headed east, into a headwind, yep, a headwind eastbound, lucky me!! Crossing the Sierra Nevada range was spectacular. Still plenty of snow. The weather deteriorated as I pushed east. Through Utah, I had to do a bit of unexpected scud running. The clouds became broken again, but flying in the haze and mist was putting some airframe ice on. it is pretty unusual to be VFR and icing?? It has only happened a few times in all my flying.
Still into a headwind, I pressed on to Moab UT, where just the previous day I had flown the Scout. I fueled ($7.50 per gallon, self serve!! Yikes!!). I then crossed the Rockies. Crossing in a straight line ment flying at 14K over 13,999' mountains for about an hour and a half. Crossing high mountains in a normally aspirated twin, means flying it like a single. If an engine fails, you will land the airplane. Even the valley floors were well above the single engine ceiling. I kept a close watch on roads, valley floors and even frozen lakes as a possible landing spot. The airplane however worked perfectly and I was soon looking at the great plains. It was then things began to get very interesting. The forecast had been for only minor, widespread T showers that day. The next day was to be (and was) much worse. I was 12 hours ahead of the storms that just ripped Colorado!!&n bsp; The weather forecast was way off (funny how people believe that we can predict what the weather will be like in 100 years i.e. "global warming" when we cant predict, with any accuracy, what the weather will be in a week, or even tomorrow!! amazing) anyway. All I could see in front of the airplane was water from the sky and lighting. I made a half hearted attempt to work my way through it, but quickly gave up. The storm scope in the airplane had so many lightning strikes it looked like it was in the test mode!!
I called center and was told that the unexpected development was 180 miles to my south and 100 miles north, moving north a 40kts. I turned north and enjoyed the first and only tailwinds of the trip, 235kts. I could see lots of lightning both on the storm scope and out the window but keep a distanced and finally was able to turn back east. The speed immediately went from 235kts to 119kts!! I had used up my fuel reserves and made a precautionary fuel stop in N.Platt NE just to be sure. Then on to KC without incident landing a little after midnight. There are few things more beautiful than flying over a big city, in a Commander, at night. Breathtaking!! John Towner runs a first class freight operation there and I spent a comfortable night in his "bunk house" to be awakened the next morning by the loudest clap of thunder I ever hear. The rain on the hangar roof was so loud I could not use my cell phone. The storm had made it to KC. man was I glad to be on the ground!! Just another day in the life of a "Delivery Dog"!! jb Stay informed, get connected and more with AOL on your phone.
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John Vormbaum
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:30 am Post subject: INTERESTING DELIVERY |
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Wow Jim, that's a pretty exciting trip! Living in CA I have ZERO
experience with T-storms....and I hope to keep it that way!
Glad you made it safely & had some good friends on the other end of the
trip to take you in. The Towners are the best!
Cheers,
/John
yourtcfg(at)aol.com wrote:
| Quote: | HI KIDS
As some of you know, I deliver all types of airplanes all over the
country, even around the world. I recently delivered a 500B from
Commander Services, Stockton CA to Central Air in Kansas city. The
trip started with he delivery of a new American Champion Scout, on 31"
tundra tires, from Caldwell ID to Moab UT. I checked the new owner
out (great fun flying in the spectacular canyons!), then flew the
"crowd killer" to CA. The 500B was just out of an extensive annual
and had a new long shrike nose as well as the Central Air boost pump
mod. The boost pumps are removed from the fuel sump and installed in
the engine nacelle, great improvement!!
John Vormbaum had already test flown it so when I got there it was
"squawk free". I blasted off and headed east, into a headwind, yep, a
headwind eastbound, lucky me!! Crossing the Sierra Nevada range was
spectacular. Still plenty of snow. The weather deteriorated as I
pushed east. Through Utah, I had to do a bit of unexpected scud
running. The clouds became broken again, but flying in the haze and
mist was putting some airframe ice on. it is pretty unusual to be VFR
and icing?? It has only happened a few times in all my flying.
Still into a headwind, I pressed on to Moab UT, where just the
previous day I had flown the Scout. I fueled ($7.50 per gallon, self
serve!! Yikes!!). I then crossed the Rockies. Crossing in a
straight line ment flying at 14K over 13,999' mountains for about an
hour and a half. Crossing high mountains in a normally aspirated
twin, means flying it like a single. If an engine fails, you will
land the airplane. Even the valley floors were well above the single
engine ceiling. I kept a close watch on roads, valley floors and even
frozen lakes as a possible landing spot. The airplane however worked
perfectly and I was soon looking at the great plains. It was then
things began to get very interesting. The forecast had been for only
minor, widespread T showers that day. The next day was to be (and
was) much worse. I was 12 hours ahead of the storms that just ripped
Colorado!!&n bsp; The weather forecast was way off (funny how
people believe that we can predict what the weather will be like in
100 years i.e. "global warming" when we cant predict, with any
accuracy, what the weather will be in a week, or even tomorrow!!
amazing) anyway. All I could see in front of the airplane was water
from the sky and lighting. I made a half hearted attempt to work my
way through it, but quickly gave up. The storm scope in the airplane
had so many lightning strikes it looked like it was in the test mode!!
I called center and was told that the unexpected development was 180
miles to my south and 100 miles north, moving north a 40kts. I
turned north and enjoyed the first and only tailwinds of the trip,
235kts. I could see lots of lightning both on the storm scope and out
the window but keep a distanced and finally was able to turn back
east. The speed immediately went from 235kts to 119kts!! I had used
up my fuel reserves and made a precautionary fuel stop in N.Platt NE
just to be sure. Then on to KC without incident landing a little
after midnight. There are few things more beautiful than flying over
a big city, in a Commander, at night. Breathtaking!! John Towner
runs a first class freight operation there and I spent a comfortable
night in his "bunk house" to be awakened the next morning by the
loudest clap of thunder I ever hear. The rain on the hangar roof was
so loud I could not use my cell phone. The storm had made it to KC.
man was I glad to be on the ground!! Just another day in the life of
a "Delivery Dog"!! jb
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steve2(at)sover.net
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 10:41 am Post subject: INTERESTING DELIVERY |
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Any pics? That trip would have been fun to follow along.....
Steve
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nico(at)cybersuperstore.c
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: INTERESTING DELIVERY |
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I published it on the site: http://www.aerocommander.com/tales.asp?m=08&lid=08&mtitle=Tales
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Subject: INTERESTING DELIVERY
HI KIDS
As some of you know, I deliver all types of airplanes all over the country, even around the world. I recently delivered a 500B from Commander Services, Stockton CA to Central Air in Kansas city. The trip started with he delivery of a new American Champion Scout, on 31" tundra tires, from Caldwell ID to Moab UT. I checked the new owner out (great fun flying in the spectacular canyons!), then flew the "crowd killer" to CA. The 500B was just out of an extensive annual and had a new long shrike nose as well as the Central Air boost pump mod. The boost pumps are removed from the fuel sump and installed in the engine nacelle, great improvement!!
John Vormbaum had already test flown it so when I got there it was "squawk free". I blasted off and headed east, into a headwind, yep, a headwind eastbound, lucky me!! Crossing the Sierra Nevada range was spectacular. Still plenty of snow. The weather deteriorated as I pushed east. Through Utah, I had to do a bit of unexpected scud running. The clouds became broken again, but flying in the haze and mist was putting some airframe ice on. it is pretty unusual to be VFR and icing?? It has only happened a few times in all my flying.
Still into a headwind, I pressed on to Moab UT, where just the previous day I had flown the Scout. I fueled ($7.50 per gallon, self serve!! Yikes!!). I then crossed the Rockies. Crossing in a straight line ment flying at 14K over 13,999' mountains for about an hour and a half. Crossing high mountains in a normally aspirated twin, means flying it like a single. If an engine fails, you will land the airplane. Even the valley floors were well above the single engine ceiling. I kept a close watch on roads, valley floors and even frozen lakes as a possible landing spot. The airplane however worked perfectly and I was soon looking at the great plains. It was then things began to get very interesting. The forecast had been for only minor, widespread T showers that day. The next day was to be (and was) much worse. I was 12 hours ahead of the storms that just ripped Colorado!!&n bsp; The weather forecast was way off (funny how people believe that we can predict what the weather will be like in 100 years i.e. "global warming" when we cant predict, with any accuracy, what the weather will be in a week, or even tomorrow!! amazing) anyway. All I could see in front of the airplane was water from the sky and lighting. I made a half hearted attempt to work my way through it, but quickly gave up. The storm scope in the airplane had so many lightning strikes it looked like it was in the test mode!!
I called center and was told that the unexpected development was 180 miles to my south and 100 miles north, moving north a 40kts. I turned north and enjoyed the first and only tailwinds of the trip, 235kts. I could see lots of lightning both on the storm scope and out the window but keep a distanced and finally was able to turn back east. The speed immediately went from 235kts to 119kts!! I had used up my fuel reserves and made a precautionary fuel stop in N.Platt NE just to be sure. Then on to KC without incident landing a little after midnight. There are few things more beautiful than flying over a big city, in a Commander, at night. Breathtaking!! John Towner runs a first class freight operation there and I spent a comfortable night in his "bunk house" to be awakened the next morning by the loudest clap of thunder I ever hear. The rain on the hangar roof was so loud I could not use my cell phone. The storm had made it to KC. man was I glad to be on the ground!! Just another day in the life of a "Delivery Dog"!! jb Stay informed, get connected and more with AOL on your phone.
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject: INTERESTING DELIVERY |
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Sorry, nope. jb
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 2:18 am Post subject: INTERESTING DELIVERY |
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G'day Jim,
Many thanks for sharing a true JB sortie with us!
Seems like Moab is a hub for bad weather...leastwise the way this Ozzie would
see it.
Cheers from North Central Oz...(strictly no rain for months)
Russell
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