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Thanks, lot's of time in a DC-6

I hate armchair quarterbacking.....but perhaps a wing spar failure at the engine, however not a complete wing seperation? If a DC-4's like a DC-6 you only have so long to put that fire out before the spar fails. Look up Northern Air Cargo's incident near Russian Mission, AK.

It was one of Alaska Air Fuel's in Wasilla, Alaska.

I don't know of any video but I know that when I flew the DC-6 you had 2 attempts to put out an engine fire, the engine MUST be feathered before deploying the fire extinguishing agent, you had 2 tries......then about 4 minutes untill the spar failed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/douglas-c-54-plane-with-2-people-on-board-crashes-into-river-outside-fairbanks-alaska/ar-AA1nxhN6?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=17ab5deabb944dc5b64c565a5f2df2eb&ei=38

Well you can "not want" in one had and **** in the other and find out what one gets filled first. Your student is screwed.

Nothing against toasters (besides the smoke alarm thing) but when gals like this go "Super Viral" or whatever you want to call it; then go do somthing fantastically stupid with an aircraft.......it's a double tap to professional female pilots everywhere. We only make up 5 percent of pro pilots...

That chick had the IQ of a toaster.........how the heck!?!?! Watch some of her dumpster fire flights on youtube. Gives female fliers a bad name.

I know a guy who drove drunk, parked at a friends home, got out, was in the house and got a DUI because the cop had footage of him driving drunk.

Liar liar, pants on fire...........

Wow talk about chicken s#it..........good luck; looks like the feds found the real problem.

Here in rural Alaska people drink to oblivion........highest I saw flying medevac was .41. I'm not kidding.

When I flew Medevac we used to play "BAC Bingo" with the Med Crew, where we'd guess the BAC of the Patient we were about to pick up pre takeoff based on the "evidence." And I thought Pilots had dark senses of humor.......

I ferried 2 Velocities from Sebastian years ago. It was like a sportscar after driving 172's arround the pattern. Sure was fun.

Ha! You are so right! If I don't get a "hey I''m gonna move the sim" I feel like I'm going to barf. Taxiing feels like floating. Sims are wierd.

How much flying are you doing as the CFI. I puked like Linda Blair my first dozen hours or so but my CFI did a lot of the flying. When I was behind the controls; I never got sick. At about 15 hours........it just magicaly stopped. Was it due to magic or because I was now in control of the...

There is a Terrific book I used to give all my students. It's called "The Killing Zone" by Paul A Craig. It talks about the time from when pilots get their certificates up to about 250-500 hours. He calls it "The Killing Zone" and explaines in detail why he believes it is. I can't recomend it...

Sounds like a retinal tear or seperation to me.......that's my .02.

I lived in Japan for 6 months. They follow a saying called "Hara hachi bu" or 80% eating. I eat untill I am 80 percent full. I never eat untill 100% full. It takes a bit of getting used to but it's been my go to diet for 20 years. I eat anything I want; no restrictions, I'm never hungry, but...

Greetings all. I am hoping to hear from one of the docs on this forum. I posted earlier about what I believed to be costochondritis with my Airline Captain Husband. It turned out to be Multiple Myeloma. He is now about to start an agressive Cancer Treatment program and is obviously grounded...