WENAS RETURNS

摘要

Some places get the best names. Take Yakima, WA, for instance: Gromo, Naches, Zilla-that last one is worthy of a Japanese movie monster. Maybe even "Gromo versus 'Zilla" as Tokyo burns. My inner eight-year-old rejoices, and wants a plate of nachos. That inner third grader also giggles at Yakima's Wenas 7 departure, both for the vaguely salacious name and the angst it caused many a hopeful cargo pilot. When I instructed in Seattle, we'd prep pilots going for charter and cargo interviews. A common sim task was the Wenas departure with killer winds that got complicated by an engine failure and a back-course, one-engine return... hmm, sounds like a Sim Challenge.