On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 22:00:20 GMT, Gord Beaman
wrote:

Thanks for the share. Sounds like the winter wx on P.E.I. is much nastier
than that afflicting the Puget Sound / Georgia Straits corner of the world.
Then, too, both Comox and Whidbey are in the lee of mountains that block
much of the really bad stuff, leaving both fields usually with nothing worse
than a duty 2K foot clag layer.

Well, it can get disagreeable at times for sure...the systems
spawn off the East coast of Fla then track up the East coast and
veer East out over the North Atlantic after giving us a little
love tap. Had a great winter last year, very little snow, can't
say the same for this one.

We got "tapped" at NAS Quonset, too. :-)

We usually got rain mixed with heavy, wet snow that washed away fairly
quickly. But sometimes we got heavy, wet snow then deep cold. Not a
good combination. :-)

One thing's for sure - no more Argus.

Sadly true...it was by far the best aircraft ever made for the
Flight Engineer trade. Only aircraft that I know of where the
pilots never touch the throttles...engineer has full and
exclusive control of the engines and all the aircraft systems.

We had a couple of Argus visit at Quonset. I watched one start up and
thought, "My God, he's on fire!" I have NEVER seen any aircraft
(including the old C-124 Globemaster) put out quite so much smoke on
start! I hope you had an oil quantity transmitter!!!!! ;-)

Makes for an ideal ASW platform. Pilots can keep their full
attention outside the a/c while the F/E looks after the
housekeeping duties

Was the aircraft commander also the mission commander? Did you guys
have NFO-type ASW specialists?

Bill Kambic