Get off my plane!

[Brent in Az]

 

[Randy F]

Apparently he's sick of this corona virus sh*t too.
Gotta GO somewhere. DO something!

 

[Excessexpress]

Aviation is a little world where insurance claims are sometimes wild and bizarre. At least this one has evidence......

 

[WAB]

Bears have torn up more than a few planes in AK.

 

[Hogpatrol]

#1 rule for bear areas: Never leave food in any sort of vehicle.

 

[WAB]

Agreed, but they don’t need food to decide to tear something up. We had a griz destroy the lid to our hot tub. A buddy had one shred his raft leaving him stranded 200 yards from his boat and 50 miles from Valdez. Sometimes they just like to screw with you!

 

[Randy F]

Agreed, but they don’t need food to decide to tear something up. We had a griz destroy the lid to our hot tub. A buddy had one shred his raft leaving him stranded 200 yards from his boat and 50 miles from Valdez. Sometimes they just like to screw with you!

That could construed as “preparing a meal” I think.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

@WAB would you be justified shooting that bear?

 

[WAB]

Absolutely, DLP bear (defense of life and property). My wife called me one day at work to tell me there was a griz in the front yard. I told her to shoot it or stay inside!

One of my guys got a call from his Mum in Salcha. A griz had gotten through the first door on her arctic entry at the front door. She went out the back door with the ‘06, went around the house and killed that bear in the entry. Called her son to come get the darn bear out of the doorway. She was 72 at the time.

Funny, the earthquakes bothered my wife far more than the bears during our years in Alaska.

 

[Brent in Az]

Absolutely, DLP bear (defense of life and property). My wife called me one day at work to tell me there was a griz in the front yard. I told her to shoot it or stay inside!

One of my guys got a call from his Mum in Salcha. A griz had gotten through the first door on her arctic entry at the front door. She went out the back door with the ‘06, went around the house and killed that bear in the entry. Called her son to come get the darn bear out of the doorway. She was 72 at the time.

Funny, the earthquakes bothered my wife far more than the bears during our years in Alaska.

Do they confiscate the Bear, or do you get to keep it?

 

[WAB]

Do they confiscate the Bear, or do you get to keep it?

You have to take the hide and the skull to them. My buddy shot one off his horse in Fairbanks. He called in and told them to come get their bear, he wasn’t skinning it for them. They did come out and get it. Probably because it had been wreaking havoc all up and down the road and they hadn’t managed to put it down in over a week of mischief.

 

[sestoppelman]

I remember when we lived in Sitka in the late 60's, as a public service announcement, the guy on the local radio would regularly remind folks not to go out in the woods without their .30-06 or bigger!
I saw the remains under a blood soaked sheet of a hunter they flew into town from nearby after a sow with cubs had killed him. Not pretty.

 

[johnnyblues]

I believe I’m in seat 2a.

 

[flatwater bill]

That Cessna 206 would need to be looked over pretty carefully before I would fly it again..............lots of potential damage there...............great vid............thanks.......FWB

 

[Brent in Az]

That Cessna 206 would need to be looked over pretty carefully before I would fly it again..............lots of potential damage there...............great vid............thanks.......FWB

The skin on those type of planes is pretty thin.

 

[WAB]

That Cessna 206 would need to be looked over pretty carefully before I would fly it again..............lots of potential damage there...............great vid............thanks.......FWB

Well if you’re 400 miles from nowhere in the Alaskan bush you get out your duct tape, do what you can, and get the bird in the air. You’d be amazed what you can do to a plane with duct tape.

 

[ZG47]

Absolutely, DLP bear (defense of life and property). My wife called me one day at work to tell me there was a griz in the front yard. I told her to shoot it or stay inside!

One of my guys got a call from his Mum in Salcha. A griz had gotten through the first door on her arctic entry at the front door. She went out the back door with the ‘06, went around the house and killed that bear in the entry. Called her son to come get the darn bear out of the doorway. She was 72 at the time.

Funny, the earthquakes bothered my wife far more than the bears during our years in Alaska.

I would bet that it was ‘yes. Ma’am and no Ma’am‘with that lady!

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Well if you’re 400 miles from nowhere in the Alaskan bush you get out your duct tape, do what you can, and get the bird in the air. You’d be amazed what you can do to a plane with duct tape.

I retrofit commercial fishing boats for a living and that reminds me of a yarn a skipper told me while I was steam shipping his boat. “ son I’ve never gone to sea on a boat that was sinking but I’ve come home on one a few times”

 

[flatwater bill]

Ya, I'll bet a few extra days alone in the Alaskan bush could be terrifying to many people.......FWB

 

[WAB]

Ya, I'll bet a few extra days alone in the Alaskan bush could be terrifying to many people.......FWB

It’s a big decision to trip that ELT. A lot of planes have flown out of the bush with duct tape repairs. We came out without a tail wheel one day. Not optimal but doable.