Український Ан-12 (Ukrainian AN-12)

[PhrogPhlyer]

On 2 July 2022, this AN-12 (registration number UR-11316) transporting military cargo from Istanbul, Turkey skidded off the runway while landing suffering light damage.

 

The 2004/SFX model is quite interesting to fly, with many systems and screens to utilize. The navigator station even has a functioning slide rule for time/distance/fuel calculations. It will take some time to really know this aircraft.

[Rupert]

Quite the cockpit!!

[Macroburst]

Quite the crash after my slide rule skills bode ill for my fellow flight crew on the AN-12.

Enjoyed the first shot with the winter background. Those engines are sleek!

[PhrogPhlyer]

2 hours ago, Macroburst said:

my slide rule skills bode ill

A dying, if not already lost, art.

[Rupert]

On 4/15/2023 at 8:13 PM, PhrogPhlyer said:

A dying, if not already lost, art.

Tell me about it!  I have a couple of slip sticks around here that I hadn't looked at for years,  I pulled one out, messed with it for a while, then put it back away.  It'd probably not even be on interest to a historian.

 

 

[PhrogPhlyer]

2 hours ago, Rupert said:

I have a couple of slip sticks around here that I hadn't looked at for years,

I have a sizable collection of various models that one day I'll donate to an aviation museum. I do, however, insist on using a basic E6B when I flight instruct or do ground instruction. It allows for a visual appreciation of numerical relationships (time/distance, fuel/time, etc) that a digital readout can never fully replicate. Same with digital vs analog readouts, relative needle position/movement vs read a displayed number and guess at it relationship to change; digital loses every time.