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Gerard Cuomo · 12-01-2025, 03:15 PM

Checked in at ops for weather briefing. It wasn't pretty, but manageable for life in the bush. Ceilings were between 700ft and 500ft with snow and ice along the entire route. The destination was showing low ceilings, but for the most part was in the clear. We had a narrow window to get there, and it was going to be challenging punching through the weather enroute. As the weather has been so bad lately, the survey team had concluded their mission early and left for home on a different flight. As we would be repositioning back to Anchorage, I offered to run people and parcels out of PAKI. Will do the same out of PANA back to PABE in a few days.

Dep/Dest: PAKI-PANA
Route: VFR
Aircraft: C208
Total Time: 0:59

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Just one of those days

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Temp below 0C, winds out of the north over 15kts, blowing snow, icing conditions, 500ft ceiling, and a partridge in a pear tree.

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600ft was as high as we could get. Ended up going back down to 500ft

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De-icing boots getting some exercise today

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Had to get through one last blob before breaking into some better weather at the destination

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