Bushpilot with a Briefcase - CPAL's Alternate Service - Canadair C4

srgalahad

srgalahad

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Bushpilot with a Briefcase - CPAL's Alternate Service - Canadair C4

Just waiting for sunset to launch the run down the west Coast and test the American airports field lighting.

CYVR to KBFI
Fuel 2260 #
Load 19800# of beer, back bacon and hockey fans
TOW 72260#
 
Down at KBFI
0:32:22
1084# fuel used
Wt 71152

Up and away!
Whidbey Island NAS makes a good landmark at night.
Saw some rotund a/c over at the Boeing plant but it was too dark to get pic or see clearly.. sure are funny looking things tho'
 
Well, wouldnt that just frost your behind!

SWMBO calls and needs a ride home... an hour early.. and 40 minutes out of SFO

[LINESTRIKE]I guess that's a "REAL LIFE INTERFERES" reset back to KBFI[/LINESTRIKE]

Ain't love grand?:kilroy:

Message from CPAL Operations SFO: Airport closed due to incident. Boeing blocking runway intersections. Cannot approve landing KOAK. Hold and await further instructions.

:running::running::running:
 
40 minutes! Don't the know the pax are getting restless???????

Finally they clear me for the approach and just in time too!

Down at KSFO
Time: 3:05
Fuel Burn: 6724
WT: 70043#
Fuel On Board: 43 POUNDS

"A check of all the tanks on the tarmac shows them to be effectively bone dry ("just 30 gallons left, too little to really measure") thus revealing how really very close the flight had come to not reaching the airport. Ends with Dan Roman whistling as he walks off alone into the darkness while TOPAC's operations manager, Tim Garfield , says "So long. So long, you ancient pelican."

Moon over Mt Shasta on the California border
Dry Tanks on the taxiway

 
srgalahad said:
Fuel On Board: 43 POUNDS

"A check of all the tanks on the tarmac shows them to be effectively bone dry ("just 30 gallons left, too little to really measure") thus revealing how really very close the flight had come to not reaching the airport. Ends with Dan Roman whistling as he walks off alone into the darkness while TOPAC's operations manager, Tim Garfield , says "So long. So long, you ancient pelican."

Moon over Mt Shasta on the California border
Dry Tanks on the taxiway
Click to expand...

:isadizzy:

So should McHales not trusted your spread sheet in our Pacific Journey...

:icon_lol:
 
ARGH! I must be cursed!
This time "work" calls and I have to go in... I don't WANT a "real life" :icon_lol:

well, it's a fast way back to San Francisco I guess...:frown:

Just a good thing this all doesn't count
 
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