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[Moneybox]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Pilots make the  decision to divert  due weather  en route except in the case of an aerodrome being declared closed.  Nev

 

Karratha airport may have been closed due to the trajectory of Tropical Cyclone Sean.

[facthunter]

When I flew through cyclone KEN No aerodromes were closed It would depend on Local  circumstances. Power outages debris on runways etc.  I didn't get any turbulence  Just a bit of St Elmos at the edges of the windows.  Nev

Edited Saturday at 03:36 AM by facthunter
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[rgmwa]

4 hours ago, facthunter said:

 Just a bit of St Elmos at the edges of the windows.  Nev

I saw that once. I was the lucky passenger sitting in the copilot's seat on a King Air flying back to Perth from Shark Bay on a stormy day after last light. Green lightning dancing around the cockpit windows. It was fascinating to see.

 

Edited Saturday at 07:39 AM by rgmwa

[Deano747]

When passengers were still able to come to visit the flight deck, we had one lady come up with both front windows a full blown lightning storm.

It was a spectacular show but as she ran shrieking all the way back through business class and down the stairs, we figured that it may not have been such an appropriate time for a pax visit.

[facthunter]

You get the stElmos before the lightning. Ona DC4 there was a white light going forward of Both wingtips, then BAM, ball lightning everywhere. Didn't seem to do much other than scare $#1t out of us and temporary Blindness... Between Darwin and East Timor the monsoon clouds looked like a wall of green Ice going to about 60,000 feet.  That was on the F-27.  QF 1308..  Nev

[spacesailor]

And, no pictures for posterity. 

spacesailor

[facthunter]

You're correct, but you are not exactly just sitting there twiddling your thumbs at the time.   Natures forces render Man's Puny machinery , Insignificant. Nev

[Underwood]

On 25/01/2025 at 3:25 AM, facthunter said:

When I flew through cyclone KEN No aerodromes were closed It would depend on Local  circumstances. Power outages debris on runways etc.  I didn't get any turbulence  Just a bit of St Elmos at the edges of the windows.  Nev

Wow, I've never even seen a DC4 for real. I'm not sure if they were ever common here in the UK does it have any form of autopilot fitted? I know the DC6 had a sort of crude one I think called a Gyro-pilot?

[facthunter]

The trip above was about 1982 and the Plane was a  DC9-20  Operating a scheduled service Perth Pt Hedland Darwin. depart PH at about 2230 local time.

   Going back a bit, C-54/ DC 4s were introduce hereabout 1950 and Qantas , Ansett and TAA had them. They left here at the end of 1968  They have Full 3 axis autopilot with hydraulic servos, but not pressurised. The DC-6 was a bigger development of the DC4. Pressurised, faster cruising at higher Levels and with more range. We flew the DC4 with a crew of two Pilots and the DC-6 has a flight engineer as well.  Nev