P-3C Tour of Lake Chelan, WA

[picklesuit]

I shot this video while on the Navex up to NASWI back in May. We were about 2500 AGL through Lake Chelan, WA. We dropped in at the south end of the lake, drove north and came out by Cascade Pass, just south of Mount Baker, right on final for NASWI.

http://skyvector.com/#49-1-2-5149-1446

We had about 10 people in the cockpit the whole time...

Enjoy...
Pickle

 

[mastbump]

2500' AGL? How the hell are you supposed to see anything on the ground from that high?

 

[Ken_gone_flying]

Makes me homesick watching that! Um, who picked that music?

 

[et1nuke]

I think I saw my parents place. I flew in to chelan a few Summers back. The strip there is absolutely ridiculous. Obstacles on all sides! But its worth it, I love it there!

 

[Schnugg]

Cool...but that music... I expected you to try to fly into a cliff...j/k

Yes, 2500' AGL is definitely nose bleed territory.

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

Nice job on the video Pickle, makes me miss Washington and all of it's beauty.

[thread jack] A quick question for you, are all the P3 squadrons painting the red line for prop arc in the tube? We had to paint on one the floor and about 12 inches up each side of the equipment racks this week and was just wondering if it's fleet wide? [/thread jack]

 

[MIDNJAC]

Makes me homesick watching that! Um, who picked that music?

Me too.....can't wait to be there next week for the long weekend We need an AW PNW'ers group....

Agreed the music is a little de-motivating

 

[loadtoad]

I shot this video while on the Navex up to NASWI back in May. We were about 2500 AGL through Lake Chelan, WA. We dropped in at the south end of the lake, drove north and came out by Cascade Pass, just south of Mount Baker, right on final for NASWI.

Where you guys on oxygen being that high?

 

[skidkid]

That video is the best illustration that ORM off duty, de-glamorization of alcohol, consideration of others, liberty campaign plan and organic soy milk in the Iraq DFACs has worked better than the perpetrators could eve have imagined.

Didnt the P-3 do 200 AGL wrap it up kill the sub shit at one point?

 

[scoolbubba]

Didnt the P-3 do 200 AGL wrap it up kill the sub shit at one point?

It did, but then NAVAIR figured out 40 year old planes ultimate load factors are right around 1g. We manage to avoid this restriction by starting engines, taxiing out to the hold short, canceling for maintenance issues and taxiing back to the line. Then we go trace our electrical diagram for the other 5 hours we were supposed to be flying.

 

[picklesuit]

We were on our way to lower, but I nearly ran over two hang-gliders and got kicked out of the seat...apparently they would make for a VERY big bird strike.

I thought the music was fitting to the afternoon stroll we were taking through there...I'll save the Metallica for some low-level, missile-shooting,pirate hunting...

Besides, I thought it would class up the joint a little...

 

[Brett327]

We were on our way to lower, but I nearly ran over two hang-gliders and got kicked out of the seat...apparently they would make for a VERY big bird strike.

I thought the music was fitting to the afternoon stroll we were taking through there...I'll save the Metallica for some low-level, missile-shooting,pirate hunting...

Besides, I thought it would class up the joint a little...

There's also a published low level route that goes right through there - opposite direction. That's a good way to smack into a Prowler/Growler, although they'd hopefully be a bit lower - still though. Were you guys just tooling around VFR?

Brett

 

[BigIron]

Music is from Donnie Darko.

 

[A4sForever]

Music is from Donnie Darko.

That's funny ... I nicknamed one of my B/N's "Donnie Dark" .... and it stuck ... I suppose Darko must now be his professional name ... ???

I wonder if I'm in line for any residuals ... ???

 

[picklesuit]

We chopped VFR just west of Spokane and dropped in over the flat section of WA south of the Grand Coulee...that was "thermal land" apparently...and worked up into the valley there at Chelan. It was really neat popping up over the mountains just south of Mt. Baker... can't wait to do it again on some DFW's up there...