today Amy will try landing on a glacier
in the deadly Talkeetna mountain range
all those valleys all those rock climbs
my head is filled with bad people that
have died this valley two people died
plane crashed over there killed five
people we still do it we still fly up
there was you just have to know that
you’re not exempt from getting killed up
there in 2005 an experienced pilot
started his climb over a nearby Ridge
too late and fatally collided with a
rock face mountain flying has to be
second nature we’re concentrating on 20
square feet of slanting snow and you
need to learn to ignore all the
cascading ice falls and the cabassa and
all these other things
to get to the glacier student pilot Amy
must first get over the outer Ridge and
that means getting up and over a wall of
50 mile-per-hour downdrafts air has
fluid characteristics like water you
know it’s going to drop down this hill
it’s going to go up this side it’s going
to out the valley is going to be rising
on this side descending on that side and
so that’s pretty the way you look at the
air be very careful now we’re barely
we’re flying at 60 and we get a lot of
their going on here we don’t want that
when we cross that Ridge you want to be
about 80 okay because all right if we
got descending here we’re not gonna be
able to get our way out of it sir your
natural tendency when you’re going to
ride you train is to pull back uncle
which is exactly what you don’t want to
do right Amy must gain altitude and
airspeed fast or the current will toss
her and dawn into the side of the ridge
I our pepper there’s a this is not flat
great feel the sinking okay attacked
I’ll Drive into it because if you shy
away from it it’ll it’s going to eat yup
if you see all that blue sky we’re at a
real steep Bank low-tech okay power
power power power power
she makes it over the ridge and inside
the range so there’s a lot going on here
but her riskiest challenge comes next
touching down on a glacier without
skidding into a mountain
one of the biggest things about glacier
lands is that you can’t go around and
check it out again once you’re committed
once you’re in you might land to lower
to a higher you can screw it up but
don’t try and turn out of there because
you’re not going to make it right
in the deadly Talkeetna mountain range
all those valleys all those rock climbs
my head is filled with bad people that
have died this valley two people died
plane crashed over there killed five
people we still do it we still fly up
there was you just have to know that
you’re not exempt from getting killed up
there in 2005 an experienced pilot
started his climb over a nearby Ridge
too late and fatally collided with a
rock face mountain flying has to be
second nature we’re concentrating on 20
square feet of slanting snow and you
need to learn to ignore all the
cascading ice falls and the cabassa and
all these other things
to get to the glacier student pilot Amy
must first get over the outer Ridge and
that means getting up and over a wall of
50 mile-per-hour downdrafts air has
fluid characteristics like water you
know it’s going to drop down this hill
it’s going to go up this side it’s going
to out the valley is going to be rising
on this side descending on that side and
so that’s pretty the way you look at the
air be very careful now we’re barely
we’re flying at 60 and we get a lot of
their going on here we don’t want that
when we cross that Ridge you want to be
about 80 okay because all right if we
got descending here we’re not gonna be
able to get our way out of it sir your
natural tendency when you’re going to
ride you train is to pull back uncle
which is exactly what you don’t want to
do right Amy must gain altitude and
airspeed fast or the current will toss
her and dawn into the side of the ridge
I our pepper there’s a this is not flat
great feel the sinking okay attacked
I’ll Drive into it because if you shy
away from it it’ll it’s going to eat yup
if you see all that blue sky we’re at a
real steep Bank low-tech okay power
power power power power
she makes it over the ridge and inside
the range so there’s a lot going on here
but her riskiest challenge comes next
touching down on a glacier without
skidding into a mountain
one of the biggest things about glacier
lands is that you can’t go around and
check it out again once you’re committed
once you’re in you might land to lower
to a higher you can screw it up but
don’t try and turn out of there because
you’re not going to make it right
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