What's up with the Grand Canyon?

[birdguy 3,943]

Flew into the Grand Canyon (KGCN) this afternoon and found three FedEx and one DHL 727s parked there.  Are they building a Trump Tower or something there?  I would think all they would need was a Cessna Caravan feeder to service a general aviation airport for a national park.

I have the Williams-Grand Canyon route on my train simulator for the tourist train that makes the daily run.  Maybe I'll fire it up and see if a 100 car container train is wending it's way up the tracks.

I think My Traffic experiences cargo aircraft overkill.

Noel

[fppilot 4,371]

No. They are there to haul out bottled clear mountain water from the Colorado River snow shed!

 

[birdguy 3,943]

May they all get giardia.

I was also USAF meteorologist (forecaster) Frank.  I was Army support.  Went to observer and forecaster schools back to back at Chanute in the  mid 80s.

Noel

 

[fppilot 4,371]

16 hours ago, birdguy said:

I was also USAF meteorologist (forecaster) Frank.  I was Army support.  Went to observer and forecaster schools back to back at Chanute in the  mid 80s.

i was there for both schools in late 1970 and 1971. Then I was sent to Forney AAF at Ft Leonard Wood, Missouri.  Stayed there until my 1974 discharge. Went back through Forney back in December 2010, and through Chanute AFB a day later.  Forney is now a county owned regional airport and still has a couple of scheduled airline flights a day, just like when I was there.  Chanute was an utter disappointment.  There is a nice museum there as a tribute to the avionics and jet engine schools, but virtually nothing about the weather school.  A lot of this country's meteorologists were trained there over the years.  Appears that training is now Air Force placement into Universities:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00431672.1964.9941028?journalCode=vwws20

Another interesting fact. Back in the early 1990's on the Prodigy online network, a number of us flight sim enthusiasts, using subLogic's ATP:Flight Assignment, formed the first virtual airline, SunAir, Airline of Imagination.  Two other members of that group were also trained at the Chanute weather school.

Thanks for touching base.

[bill62 40]

You must be using MyTraffic 6. They are heavy on the cargo schedules.

[birdguy 3,943]

Yeah, I use My Traffic because it includes military ai.

Noel

 

[Jim Young 2,356]

If you get a crash while flying around a military base, come visit me in the AVSIM CTD Forum.

[birdguy 3,943]

I haven't had a crash since I moved to Steam and got my new computer Jim.  But I'll keep it in mind.

Noel