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Plane in holding pattern takes side trip around Mt. Rainier
An Alaska Airlines pilot stuck in a holding pattern due to fog at Sea-Tac Airport near Seattle on Tuesday decided to take the monotony out of the delay by getting clearance to circle Mount Rainier as a treat for his passengers. Flight 401 from Las Vegas was forced to travel in a circle over Lewis County south of the airport before its pilot took the side trip around the highest mountain in the Cascade Range, as reported by KOMO and the Seattle PI. (www.msn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Well either way, the hobbs meter was ticking, so put it to good use!
When Mt Cook Airlines operated in NZ as an private company many pilots would take a "side trip around Mt Cook" and the Tasman Glacier enroute from Christchurch to Queenstown, sometime flying at quite low levels. Not now as the company is now owned by Air New Zealand and you can't waiste the shareholders money and also one must keep to the "highways in the sky"
No good deed goes unpunished!
The flight would not get landing clearance 15 minutes from rapt - "approach clearance yes"
Seems these days that somebody somewhere will find fault with this.
When I was driving a DC10, wx and winds permitting,departing SEA I would do a half circle East of Mt St Helens after it exploded here in Washington State...then climb and head for LAX and SAN.