TGA-Tour - Alaska Adventure

[Jan Arild Gjemble]

I "Alaskan Winds" (et lite virtuelt bush-selskap) har vi nå kjørt igang

 

The Great Alaskan Tour

 

En rundreise i Alaska der vi har planer å bli kjent med både landskap, kultur og aviation.

 

Den første delen består av en rute som følger

 

Stewart-Hyder-Metlakatla-Hydaburg-Craig-Klawock-Point Baker-Ketchikan

 

This cover a huge area of the southwestern Alaska.

 

The weather was pretty bad in Stewart and I had to start my tour in IFR-mode. I was told that the weather would be better as soon as I closed in on Metlakatla. Lets hope they are right.

 

It was time to return to my Beaver and I was told by the engineer that everything was fine and he promised me that nothing would go wrong, he just had to fine tune and replace some parts and everything was fine again.

 

Here Is my beauti ready for take off from Stewart

 

Just a short hop to Hyder, just take off and then down for landing. and the weather was really bad, all fogged in.

 

And here are some IFR-conditions

 

As soon I was passing above the fog I got the beautiful view of Alaska again, and I had a great trip over to Metlakatla

 

And I really can understand why they call it the Misty Fjord

 

The trip over the mountains and out the fjords went fine and after a quiet descending, well a lot of wind enroute, 60 knots at 6000 feet, and 25 knots at 1000 feet gave me an interesting approach and final.

 

But finally I was docked and safe in Metlakatla.

 

 

Next hop was to Hydaburg, the strong winds continued on 6000 feet but a strong and healthy airplane had no problems at all.

 

 

The approach and landing in Hydaburg was a great experience, and a lovely sight for sure

 

 

The next hop to Craig will almost be straight north, it was just to fire up the Beaver and go on.

 

 

The wind continue to be strong and steady at 60 knots and the airplane got some tough side winds now and then, but it managed.

The landing at Craig went fine as well.

 

It is a very short hop from Craig to Klawock, just up and then down again. and it went really fine. Had to fill fuel in Klawock as well, both for my plane and myself

 

Approaching Klawock

 

Parked at Klawock

 

A picture from inside the terminal where I had my coffe

 

After some good coffee and some talk with the locals it was time to move on and a hop up to Point Baker. Here I'm leaving Klawock behind me and climbing for Point Baker

 

 

The landing in Point Baker was without any problem and soon I was docked.

 

The last hop, from Point Baker down to Ketchikan was the longest hop and it was late in the afternoon and some scenic views from my cockpit. A lovely flight.

 

Here I'm climbing out from Point Baker

 

Enroute to Ketchikan

 

 

The descend to Ketchikan has started and here on final.

 

Parked and the first part of TGA-tour is over.

 

 

 

Alaskan Winds

http://alaskanwinds.romanesca.com/

http://alaskanwinds4.proboards98.com/index.cgi

 

[Frode Skibrek]

Nydelig. Men den passeringen av den båten på bilde 2 må vel sies å være litt "close"? :grin:

[Einar Kristiansen]

Nydelige bilder!

Skikkelig flott gjenomført..

[Stian Rolandsen]

Utmerket bildeserie. Bush-flyving på sitt aller beste.

[Gunnar van der Meeren]

Nydelig Jan Arild!

Dette har jeg sans for. Hvilke scenery addons benytter du her?.....

[Tom Arild Hansen]

Ja, veldig nydelig. Likte spesielt det sjette bildet. Herlig!

[Jan Arild Gjemble]

Nydelig. Men den passeringen av den båten på bilde 2 må vel sies å være litt "close"? :grin:

 

Ehh.. joda.. den båten der dukket plutselig opp i tåkesuppa. Den gjorde meg litt nervøs, men ingen bushflyging uten litt overraskelser

 

 

[Jan Arild Gjemble]

Nydelig Jan Arild!

Dette har jeg sans for. Hvilke scenery addons benytter du her?.....

 

Tusen takk for flott feedback alle sammen! Brukte rundt 3,5 timer i går kveld/natt på denne turen og hadde noen herlige timer med utfordrende flyging med IFR start og kraftige vinder, men alt gikk strålende. Alaska på sitt beste

 

 

Av Addons har jeg innstallert disse:

 

- Ulitmate Terrain X for USA og Canada (UTX finns ikke for Alaska riktig enda)

- Ground Environment X for USA og Canada (Her er jeg usikker på om denne dekker Alaska)

- Flight Environment X

- Aktive Sky X

- Active Graphics X

- FS Genesis Mesh Version 2 for USA og Alaska

- Taburet Vectors X for Alaska (på Enroute-bildene, ikke ved dock)

- Snow Dog Tours, Ketchikan Alaska (alle docks og mer liv på flyplassene, Freevare på Avsim)

- FS Commander 8.2 for ruteplanlegging/kart

 

 

[Stian Alexander Hoddevik]

Rett og slett helt flott Kjekt å sjå kior mykje arbeid folk kn legge i ein billed serie. Her beviser du akkurat kor bra FSX kan være

[Ivar Skaugstad]

Mmmmmm, fra en "alaska løver" sin side så var dette rett og slett eye candy!

 

Flotte bilder, flott vær (i den forstand!) og levende bilder. Hvis du ikke har fullført hele turen din så får du gjerne si i fra, blir gjerne med på en leg eller to.

[TOS]

Kjempeflotte bilete dette her. Flott grafikk og flott lyssetting. Og fullstendig og flott scenery. Kjempemessig

[Jan Arild Gjemble]

Det er bare å hive seg med Ivar. "The Great Alaskan Tour (TGAT)" er åpen for alle piloter og flygingen foregår i helgen, første etappe ble unnagjort denne helgen, men kan flys når som helst på egen hånd

 

Mer om TGAT kan dere finne her:

 

About TGAT

 

Prolog

 

Første etappe - Bakgrunn

 

Første etappe - Flightplan og opplysninger

 

 

Vanligvis flys det online hver lørdag kl. 18.00 Zulu, dvs. kl. 19.00 norsk tid.

Uansett settes det ofte opp online-sessions utover dette for de som ikke kan på lørdager.

 

 

 

Edit: link

[Ivar Skaugstad]

Oh! Dønn, thanks! :grin: