Well I’ve no idea what has gone wrong with the cameras… Lost an entire flight in video and picture recordings….. So today I will have to try and find what has happened whilst the aircraft is sitting at Seattle Tacoma INTL airport! Then hopefully I will be able to gather something for the trip up to Anchorage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yesterday was a pretty long day to say the least, I started my day at 5:30am with a steaming hot mug of coffee (gold blend), shower and grab my iPad and flight bag for the 40minuate trip to Manchester Airport for the long transport flight to Seattle. Getting into my car I remembered to check my car parts delivery coming from Germany for new wishbones – still ‘in transit’ apparently I wish they would hurry up I need to change them out, it starting to affect the handling…… sigh… Well will have to take it easy. I look out the windows was already telling me that moving the 747 was going to be interesting….. hmmmm foggy….<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The engineers and tech crew have worked through the night got the Conquest prepped and loaded. And those that are joining us will be meeting us in the hanger for a quick pre-departure breifing. I passed the now mandatory COVID-19 lateral flow test and given a declaration for US Customs and filed the flight plan with ATC just as my fried breakfast was served in the hanger canteen. The weather was still a ‘pea-souper’ but I knew as soon as we left the surly bonds of Earth that we’d be in the clear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I let my co-pilot load up the FMS and prepare the flight deck and charts as I walked around the aircraft and main cargo deck with the loadmaster. Everything secured and tech log signed off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Routed out north towards Iceland and Greenland with a step climb to 40,000ft from 36,000ft the flight was pretty uneventful, which is always good…… Well I say uneventful until we got a Master Caution over Greenland “FUEL QTY LOW”…. Hmmm we had loaded just under 98 tonnes how can we be low? I quick look up to the overhead panel shone a light on the issue, we had both missed that fuel cross feeds for the outer tanks where closed (as no indiction shows on the EICAS) and as a result main tanks 1 and 4 where draining directly into engines 1 and 4 this is what caused the caution light. we reset it and double checked to make sure we had enough to get to Seattle which we did, I noted in the flight and tech log and proceeded with the flight. After that it was still pretty uneventful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have always enjoyed flying into Seattle as I spent alot of my early flying days in and around Seattle, and bringing in ‘the Queen’ is always a proud moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The plan is to over night in Seattle and then head Northwest to Alaska to prepare for the start of the trip. Hopefully with cameras repaired I will see you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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