32 Replies to “Hey, You In The Cessna”

  3. oh – is that a ticket on the windshield? I assumed it was a flyer for a strip joint – they are all near the airport 🙂

  5. ….reverse the word ‘ambulance” on the front of a helicopter so that people in front of it can read the word in their rear view mirrors.., sigh.

  6. It’s the backwards “ambulance” . Like you’re going to see it in your rearview mirror of your airplane.

  9. That looks a lot like a blanket policy being applied even where it is idiotic.
    Lot of that going around these days.
    Or, much more optimistically, a joke. I -so- hope its a joke, please let it be something they stuck on there for a giggle…

  12. My favourite are the Braille No Smoking (and other) signs in government buildings. How does the blind person find the sign? Does he feel around all the walls hoping that he’s found a ‘smoking elevator’ only to be crushed with disappointment? Or were blind people smoking in elevators insisting there was no sign forbidding it?

  14. Gov’t regs….logic does not prevail…
    I recall US regs (in the ’90’s) on school buses….that mandated them to be totally yellow except for lettering…and maybe a white roof…
    Canadian standards mandate a flat, matte, black hood to reduce glare to the driver….nope not in the US…..but many North-Eastern states made state standards mandating CANADIAN STANDARDS school buses…black hood, caged fuel tanks etc in defiance of the Federal Standard.
    Result…US bus manufacturers imported new buses from their Canadian subsidiaries to avoid having two assembly lines…

  16. a@c. Those B47’s in MASH are little pos compared to the MBH5. They have clamshell doors in the rear to load/unload stretchers.

  17. Posted by: Thomas_L…… at November 16, 2012 12:05 PM
    You comment is like the signs on post offices – “no dogs allowed except seeing eye dogs” I wonder if the dogs can read. No wonder the USPS loses billions of dollars each year.

  18. And here I’ve been asking the paramedics how the patient did during the trip in the ecnalubma. I feel so stupid!

  22. ‘Befehl ist befehl’
    The only airplanes with rearview mirrors are fighter jets and they fly much faster and higher than helicopters.
    It’s a Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm (MBB) BK117 by the way.
    Go to http:/
    /wwwapps2.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/ccarcs/aspscripts/en/quicksearch.asp
    and enter C-GCPH in ‘Mark’ and click search.
    Works for any aircraft registered in Canada.

  23. A helicopter pilot once told me that flying a helicopter is like masturbating; you get a real kick out of it but you hate admitting that you do it.

  24. It might just be an inside joke since getting close enough to read that would be cited by the FAA or DOT.

  26. Al in YOW,
    That’s actually a Eurocopter EC145. It was type certificated as a BK117-2 or some similar designation, probably to streamline the certification process.

  27. Apologies to Al in YOW,
    I had a look at the history of the BK117/EC145 once dinner was in the oven and I was mistaken. It appears it is an MBB manufactured ship.

  28. No apologies necessary otter driver, fling-wings confuse me too.
    What type of otter? R1340 engine, Polish engine, turbine or twotter?

  29. Otter. Hmmmm. Wasn’t that once referred to as a “single swine”? That STARS job would probably pass by one, like they were standing still!

  30. Al and PO’ed
    I have time on two of the four types you listed. Logged some float, wheel and ski time on an R1340 engined otter – Single Swine was one of the more endearing names we had for them. I’ve spent most of the past 7 years on a twin otter – floats, wheels and tundra tires.
    Remembering back on the single; If I had a long trip into the unknown my practice was to flight plan round trip for 90 MILES per hour on floats. Homesick geese could pass me. I think she’d indicate around 105 mph if you were below gross. On wheels or skis she was a bit faster, but the #’s are lost in the memory hole. I like the twin for her speed and capability, but nothing I’ve flown could pull herself out of the hole like a single otter. My shortest landings have all been in the twin otter – no contest there – but my shortest takeoff was in the single otter. 75 feet (ski tracks paced off). I thought I was going to beat it in the twin when I was leaving empty from the tundra into a 40 knot headwind, but it felt like the plane rolled about 2 lengths of herself before getting airborne. I didn’t leave a judge on the ground to measure that day.
    She might only have half the power, but the single lifts only 2/3rds the weight with nearly the same wingspan.
    Ahh, my back is starting to hurt a bit, but you got me missing the the ole girl now…Sniff.

  31. My apologies if this photo is real. The JPEGsnoop program says
    ———————-
    NOTE: JFIF COMMENT field is known software
    Based on the analysis of compression characteristics and EXIF metadata:
    ASSESSMENT: Class 1 – Image is processed/edited
    ———————-
    I later realized that can happen when putting photos in web pages or if someone uses photoshop. Didn’t mean to cause offense.

  32. The photo is real, I edited it to make the lettering more legible. I was tipped off to it by a family member who noticed it during a emergency pick up.

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