Roost Air Lounge => General Discussion => Topic started by: Baradium on September 12, 2006, 02:52:11 AM
Title: Only in Alaska...
Post by: Baradium on September 12, 2006, 02:52:11 AM
Could they tie in a new car commercial to hunting.
Seriously, the first line of the commercial isn't even about the cars, it's about hunting. The salesman is in cammo standing in the dealer parking lot through the entire thing... Even in Georgia they didn't think they could get away with that. ;) I'm not saying it's a bad commercial. Just that one of my room mates made a comment about it and I started to think about that. I never saw a car commercial that seemed to concentrate almost as much on hunting as cars before. ;)
Was it here that I saw posted the four seasons of Alaska? Winter, Breakup, Smoke, Hunting....
Speaking of winter... I went and bought winter gear today (my Georgia winter gear has been what I've been using for "summer" on the north slope).... yeah, I spent way too much on winter gear and I just feel "adequately prepared" now for winter... I'm going to die when it's 40 or 50 below in barrow with the 30-40 kt winds... :o
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: cj5_pilot on September 12, 2006, 05:24:56 PM
Heh, we plan our staffing around hunting season. Sales of building supplies drops off sharply August 20th and picks back up again around the end of September...and October is our buisest month as everybody tries to finish off the outside of the house before winter! Heck if you go in to the Arctic Cat shop in Wasilla the accessories brochure has more hunting gear for 4 wheelers in it then anything else ;D
If you make it to Wasilla stop by the Windbreak Cafe....totally devoted to trout fishing...it's informaly known as "Trout's Place".
What is really wild is on my 5 hour drive Wasilla to Delta Junction (my annual hunting trip) on the last day of August I go from Summer in Wasilla to Snow in Delta generally :)
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: Baradium on September 12, 2006, 06:45:46 PM
Hahaha! That makes it easier to get off for hunting season too then, doesn't it? ;)
I hope delta isn't too cold end of this month when I'm going down there for fishing. It's a good bit closer to Fairbanks than Wasilla though. ;)
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: cj5_pilot on September 12, 2006, 08:17:46 PM
That time of year unless we get some Indian summer you'll be seeing lows in the high twenties probably and getting up to around 40 ish would be my bet. Where ya gonna fish?
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: Baradium on September 12, 2006, 08:27:36 PM
That time of year unless we get some Indian summer you'll be seeing lows in the high twenties probably and getting up to around 40 ish would be my bet. Where ya gonna fish?
I'm actually not sure on the specifics. Keep hearing clearwater too, but I think that's just what he calls it. I'm not setting it all up so I'm taking it day by day. ;)
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: cj5_pilot on September 12, 2006, 08:52:37 PM
Tundra fishes the Delta/Clearwater area quite a bit. He can probably set you up with some info.
Only fishing I did this year was on the Quasar (a friends 40 foot boat) in Seward for Silver Salmon (Coho). We caught a few, had some fun. Didn't get the float tube out at all this year and my fly rods look awfully neglected.
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: Baradium on September 12, 2006, 09:19:54 PM
Tundra fishes the Delta/Clearwater area quite a bit. He can probably set you up with some info.
Only fishing I did this year was on the Quasar (a friends 40 foot boat) in Seward for Silver Salmon (Coho). We caught a few, had some fun. Didn't get the float tube out at all this year and my fly rods look awfully neglected.
We've gotta be careful where we go because we're using a service of Wainwright (the army base in Fairbanks) since I'm going with retired military guys. So there will be a "guide" driving the boat (they decided it'd be cheaper than renting one)... also means we are probobly going to avoid more of the "special" spots because anywhere we go will eventually becom public knowledge. At this point I think renting would be cheaper, but they're worried I might have to head back to fairbanks with my truck before their trip is over and if they had to rent a pickup instead of a regular car it'd up the cost a lot.
The fun is the important part, right? I'm also hoping to have some fish to at least start the winter with! Next year maybe I can do some hunting and get some meat too... ;)
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: happylanding on September 12, 2006, 09:43:40 PM
Speaking of winter... I went and bought winter gear today (my Georgia winter gear has been what I've been using for "summer" on the north slope).... yeah, I spent way too much on winter gear and I just feel "adequately prepared" now for winter... I'm going to die when it's 40 or 50 below in barrow with the 30-40 kt winds... :o
Oh my! don't talk about winter yet, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease! :) we had a naughty august, where temperatures dropped to 20 degrees and at the end of it rose again to 30ish. even if I'm not living it, being in London, on Sunday here was quite hot and in a week and something hasn't rained yet (or it could have but I was in class!). this morning was the first one in a quite long row I did need a pullover.....
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: Baradium on September 12, 2006, 09:49:42 PM
Oh my! don't talk about winter yet, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease! :) we had a naughty august, where temperatures dropped to 20 degrees and at the end of it rose again to 30ish. even if I'm not living it, being in London, on Sunday here was quite hot and in a week and something hasn't rained yet (or it could have but I was in class!). this morning was the first one in a quite long row I did need a pullover.....
I was trying to ignore, but my bank account says otherwise :(
That's kind of chilly... it's still t-shirt weather during the day in Fairbanks.
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: cj5_pilot on September 12, 2006, 11:48:50 PM
Speaking of winter... I went and bought winter gear today (my Georgia winter gear has been what I've been using for "summer" on the north slope).... yeah, I spent way too much on winter gear and I just feel "adequately prepared" now for winter... I'm going to die when it's 40 or 50 below in barrow with the 30-40 kt winds... :o
Oh my! don't talk about winter yet, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease! :) we had a naughty august, where temperatures dropped to 20 degrees and at the end of it rose again to 30ish. even if I'm not living it, being in London, on Sunday here was quite hot and in a week and something hasn't rained yet (or it could have but I was in class!). this morning was the first one in a quite long row I did need a pullover.....
When you said 20 degrees I went "Huh?" And then remembered to think C not F ;D It was getting down to 32 F when I was hunting in Delta, but the day time temp was pushing 60 F. We've had a cool, wet summer after an awesome spring and early summer. About another month I'll be thinking about dragging out the snow tires for the Super Duty and Explorer. Oh, and digging out my snowshoes for the winter time activities. Generally we have snow by Halloween.
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: tundra_flier on September 15, 2006, 06:17:16 AM
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Tundra fishes the Delta/Clearwater area quite a bit. He can probably set you up with some info.
Only fishing I did this year was on the Quasar (a friends 40 foot boat) in Seward for Silver Salmon (Coho). We caught a few, had some fun. Didn't get the float tube out at all this year and my fly rods look awfully neglected.
Actually I've only fished the Delta Clearwater once, and found the fishing to only be OK. Have generally done better in the Chatanika, especially late in the season like this. But he may be going to the Richardson Clearwater, which is across the Tanana down near Quartz lake. Access is by jet boat or float plane. That's suppose to be some awsome grayling fishing.
Phil
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: Baradium on September 15, 2006, 11:45:00 PM
Tundra fishes the Delta/Clearwater area quite a bit. He can probably set you up with some info.
Only fishing I did this year was on the Quasar (a friends 40 foot boat) in Seward for Silver Salmon (Coho). We caught a few, had some fun. Didn't get the float tube out at all this year and my fly rods look awfully neglected.
Actually I've only fished the Delta Clearwater once, and found the fishing to only be OK. Have generally done better in the Chatanika, especially late in the season like this. But he may be going to the Richardson Clearwater, which is across the Tanana down near Quartz lake. Access is by jet boat or float plane. That's suppose to be some awsome grayling fishing.
Phil
We're going after Coho. This guy has maxed out every day he goes each year for the past 10 years, so he has a good idea where to go. This is the first time he hasn't had a boat to himself though. A guy being there driving it might mean we can't go to his special spots...
Saw a moose in town yesterday. Right off the highway munching on grass. ;) I also hear that the float pond at the airport has some massive pike in it.
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: cj5_pilot on September 16, 2006, 02:03:39 AM
Pike aren't fish. There alligators with very short legs ;)
Silver salmon in September? That's wild. Awfully late in the year, but you are WAY further upstream then where I fish. Good luck bro and don't forget piX!
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: Baradium on September 16, 2006, 02:38:53 AM
Pike aren't fish. There alligators with very short legs ;)
Silver salmon in September? That's wild. Awfully late in the year, but you are WAY further upstream then where I fish. Good luck bro and don't forget piX!
Hahahah! Pike are definately something else. Don't fall into the float pond. ;)
Well, they aren't silver anymore. ;) Makes for some beautiful wall mounts if you are into that type of thing. As far as eating, you have to check each fish when you catch it. They are good eating, but the flesh has to be right. Probobly 1 out of every 20 fish tests bad.
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: FB41 on September 16, 2006, 12:19:14 PM
Pike aren't fish. There alligators with very short legs ;)
Alligators HAVE short legs- pike are alligators that snarled at God. (We have lots of gators here in Florida and pike where I grew up as a boy).
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: Baradium on September 17, 2006, 04:15:07 AM
I saw Russia today.
That is all.
Oh, and I took a picture or two. Expect postings of them and more in a week or two.
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: cj5_pilot on September 21, 2006, 01:48:19 AM
I just want everyone to know that Alaska is on the cutting edge when it comes to aviation. Check out this pic of the C/F-150 Sparrowhawk air superiority fighter being loaded with an air to air missle:
This picture was taken at great risk to life and limb.....seeing as I was on East Ramp......
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: fireflyr on September 22, 2006, 02:27:23 PM
OMIGOSH!! Lucky you weren't shot for taking pictures of the Sparrowhawk fighter--I heard it was a "black" project!---Now the enemy knows what we've got in reserve! :-\
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: Frank N. O. on September 22, 2006, 04:39:20 PM
Plus now they know the stories of little green men are true (I'm 175cm and could barely walk under the Cardinal and these guys(?)can reach their arms up) :D
Frank
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: tundra_flier on September 23, 2006, 08:00:03 PM
Those are the North Pole black ops elves. |:)\ You didn't think its just a coincidence that there's an army base on one side of North Pole, and airforce on the other did you? ;)
Phil
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: fireflyr on September 24, 2006, 03:59:11 AM
You mean the CIA finally recruited Santa Claus--- :'( makes sense though since he knows who's naughty or nice ;)
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: cj5_pilot on September 28, 2006, 01:53:11 AM
Had something happen today that reminded me of something else "Only in Alaska".
I'm the manager of a building materials store. The owner's a pilot (twin rated as well), I'm a pilot and both my assistant manager and recieving clerk are aviation enthusiasts. Anyhow, this customer comes in and is exchanging two kitchen cabinets for a different one. He was in a bit of a hurry as the weather is "iffy" today and he had to fly back to the job site. We get to BSing and he's flying a Piper PA22/20 Pacer on floats. We chat for a bit about the PA22/20 conversion and out he goes.
Now what this put me in mind of is external loads on aircraft (not helicopters, fixed wing ;D). I have one customer that flew an entire cabin in with a Maule (M-7 I believe). He has an external rack that he puts sheets of plywood on (and large windows since he bought them from me ;) ) I asked him what difference it made and he said when landing with the plywood it liked to float a LOT more :P
One of the common things flown about Alaska are canoes. Generally you see them under DeHavilland DHC-2 Beavers on floats. Some canoes are square stern. So here's the question to you aerodyamically minded people: What is the correct way to carry a square stern canoe under a Beaver? Stern first or nose first, and why?
One of the common things flown about Alaska are canoes. Generally you see them under DeHavilland DHC-2 Beavers on floats. Some canoes are square stern. So here's the question to you aerodyamically minded people: What is the correct way to carry a square stern canoe under a Beaver? Stern first or nose first, and why?
I'd assume nose first since that's the way the boat goes through the water. The turbulence following the square stern may form a virtual tail that reduces the drag somewhat. A flat front would seem to cause an abrupt change in airflow that would create more drag. But I'm not a fluid dynamics expert, so what is obvious to me may be completely wrong!
jbs
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: fireflyr on September 28, 2006, 02:47:22 AM
I'd guess stern first because, in spite of the square transom, the cross section of which would about 2 square feet, it would allow a more laminar airflow...................then again if ole Bubba down in New Orleans was a'doing it, he's strap it sideways under dat wing because it be mo round under de bottom! :D :D
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: Baradium on September 28, 2006, 04:26:33 AM
I vote bow first. Seems to me if the flat rear was worse than a flat front boats wouldn't be designed like they are. ;)
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: cj5_pilot on September 28, 2006, 03:15:05 PM
Stern first. It prevents adverse wake effects on the tail ;D
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: TheSoccerMom on September 28, 2006, 08:52:09 PM
Nice photo!! That's a U.S. Forest Service Beaver from the Northeastern Region -- they fly out of Ely, Minnesota, mostly. I believe they still own two Beavers there...
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: cj5_pilot on September 28, 2006, 09:49:39 PM
Nice photo!! That's a U.S. Forest Service Beaver from the Northeastern Region -- they fly out of Ely, Minnesota, mostly. I believe they still own two Beavers there...
That is directly from their website...I didn't take the pic ;) Usually I flag it when I post a pic I didn't take, but as there was no credit I could see on their website for the pic, so I had nobody to credit it to. I belong to several aircraft picture trading groups and we are touchy about giving credit and not reposting other people's pics. That pic is linked directly to their website :)
Up here in Alaska, there are a LOT of Beavers. Very useful for lodge and flight seeing operations. Lots of conversions too like the Magnum Beaver. A few Otters and a couple turbine Otters as well. I LOVE the sound of them round engines!
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: chuckar101 on September 28, 2006, 09:52:40 PM
Glad you specified Minnesota SoccerMom, cause as you know theres nothing even resembling that down here in Ely, Nevada. wish there was sometimes though.
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: fireflyr on September 28, 2006, 11:46:20 PM
I've only been to Alaska a few times, but the sound of all those round engines is definitely a good part of the lasting memories I have.
Everts was doing training in one of their DC-6s today, it's really cool to see a DC-6 practicing a go around. ;)
The one they were using was "Spirit of America" in case anyone familiar with the company is curious.
BTW, I shot an NDB-DME approach today, including a DME arc off the NDB. That was interesting. I prefer the GPS approaches that we normally shoot. ;) It did work out picture perfect though. ;)
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: cj5_pilot on September 29, 2006, 04:54:45 PM
A buddy of mine is a Captain for Everets. He prefers to fly the C-46 over all their other aircraft. For a while he was flying 22Mike out of Kenai. Many a time did I get to watch them big ole radials start up while I was preflighting a 152 or 172 since Everets was right next to the flying club I used to fly with ;D
Title: Re: Only in Alaska...
Post by: Baradium on September 30, 2006, 08:14:45 AM
A buddy of mine is a Captain for Everets. He prefers to fly the C-46 over all their other aircraft. For a while he was flying 22Mike out of Kenai. Many a time did I get to watch them big ole radials start up while I was preflighting a 152 or 172 since Everets was right next to the flying club I used to fly with ;D
Those are some neat planes there. I love the old aircraft myself.. ;) NAC is next to us at Fairbanks, with Everts past them.
You know, Everts has ads out looking for pilots, f/o's and f/e's ;)
