Thursday, May 27, 2010
American Eagle flt # 3620 KORF- KMIA
As a CAT III pilot for American I am only qualified on a select few aircraft. Two of my favorites being the Embraer ERJ 145LR and the Boeing 737-823. On this occasion I am manning up an ERJ for a 2 hour flight to Miami. Loading up the manifest says 50 Pax. and 800 pounds of cargo. Quite heavy for the little plane but we can manage I am sure. Once we get the bags and everybody aboard the stewards close the doors and I start the engine start checklist. Engines 1 and 2 fire no problem. We push and taxi out to runway 5 in Norfolk for an easy climb out of the Atlantic. I turn onto the runway and come up to 40% on the power. Oil pressure is good rpms stabilizing and synced N1 synced release the brakes and we begin to roll. at about 100 knots the tiny jet's nose lifts and we start to leave the runway. I lift the gear and we turn to the south to make our way to MIA. The clouds are broken at about 20K as we climb through and then clear out the farther south we go until we get right over the Ormond beach VOR. Things are starting to thicken a bit and I see that Miami approach is no online and we will have ATC into the airport. I contact MIA app and he vectors me around the airport to the south for an ils approach to runway 09. No biggie. I line up on the radial and follow the approach path as the glideslope indicators lowers itself onto the zero degree mark on the screen. I press the approach button on the autopilot and the little jet plane glides onto rwy 09 where I exit left and taxi to the terminal. Another flight another 20 bucks...
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