The oil leaked out of the cracked crankcase. As to why it cracked, honestly I don't remember. Unable to sync props, lots of vibrations then boom, big smoke.

Dammit, you guys inspired me to find an office with a view, or at least one with a view of less concrete. Now I just need to develop an eye and some skill like STL.

Auyuittuq National Park


Sunset on Frobisher Bay


Pangnirtung (aka. the happiest place on earth)


Mount Asgard (I think!) a famous spot from the opening scene in "The Spy Who Loved Me"

Looks like you're making a good start Changes!

Nice shots, keep em coming.


stl

Another shot of Coastal life. Was parked on a rock about 300yrds offshore, this guy went by about 45mins after the sun dipped below the ridge line.

stl

Cruisin around stanley park yesterday on the bike and just couldn't help myself.. had to stop and watch some Otters.



And whats a post without our own otters?!? The YFB folk should know this spot and know it well!



Oh and we saw these guys bombin around quite a bit. Anyone on here?

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Hey I used to work on that bird!!! How's BTI running? Is Walstens still doing the maintenance for you guys?

Blue_Side_Down took me up for a tour in the Harvard. Man does that thing ever fly nice!

I took this pic when I was on the ramp at Buffalo airways. Even a dog can fly a DC-4 so I knew that I'd be okay.

Here are a couple from today

#1, lunch/fishing spot. #2, mid-afternoon snack/snooze spot.









stl

STL:

First of all great pictures throughout. What camera equipment are you using if you don't mind me asking?

Thanks RB,

Glad you enjoy them.

I'm shooting a Nikon D3 these days, variety of lenses, all top end glass. Some of the earlier shots were with a Canon 1D-MKII, and related lens suite. But it got stolen in Italy last spring.... SIlver lining in that was the new D3. Stunning camera.

Most shots are processed in Adobe Lightroom.

stl

Santy claus is down there somewhere.. or maybe it's just JC in the red suit.

By the way bud.. I saw the video from terra nova! haha good stuff

Nice shot Rowdy how high up are you there and where exactly other than way up north where ya?

Thats about 80-90 miles southwest of CFS Alert. If I remember right.. we were up around 210 that time.



Sure gets a little lonely in the middle of nowhere!!

Just south of Ward Hunt Island.

A KA100 made it to FL210?! wow......!

We pretty much always get up to 210 or 220.. only a couple of times have I tried to stagger to 230. But it will get there, unless we're fully loaded.



The view from last week!

Kinda miss being down low...

Rowdy wrote:
Kinda miss being down low...

Like this low? (A re-post, but it works...!)

So where is that glacier? I never get that much detail as I'm always about a 1000' higher, but it reminds me of behind Garibaldi mtn.

It's actually right on the US border about 20nm from Stewart, BC.

Leduc Glacier to be exact. Just taken with a point and shoot - setting the timer was a bitch.....


stl

Sounds like you get a little x-c time in those whirly birds of yours. Somehow I thought you stayed with few hundred of YPW. Other then photography, what did they have you doing that took you so close to the glacier? It is quite the pic, almost enough to make a fixed winger jealous...

STL - don't make me hate my decision to try out the ifr world any more than I already do. I'll be back low and slow very soon though.



Just checkin up on the other machine... I was a lil behind schedule..

Not as low or as slow as you good buddy

AAAhhh...the good old days at Borek. Sure miss that place, even if you had to fly with the odd a$$hole once and a while....

Invertago wrote:Sounds like you get a little x-c time in those whirly birds of yours. Somehow I thought you stayed with few hundred of YPW. Other then photography, what did they have you doing that took you so close to the glacier? It is quite the pic, almost enough to make a fixed winger jealous...

Oh yeah, certainly get around in these thing, been from Alaska to Hudson Bay to the Arctic Islands...

Actually just picked up a Geologist on that chunk of ice in front of the skids, so I gave him the camera and went back for a lame-ass poser shot...Lol Turned out nice though!

stl