The Great Alaskan Tour - Del 4

[Jan Arild Gjemble]

After a weeks stay in Angoon "hunting" bears with my Nikon D80 and waiting for more work to do I finally got a call from the boss. "Hey, get your ass to the Logde in Angoon and find Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins. They need a ride to Taku Lodge and give then a great sightseeing on their way. They are paying good money and if you do a good job we might get the chance to fly them over the glaciers and up to Juneau.

 

This suited me fine, had seen enough bears for a while and was eager to get air under my wings again.

 

The couple was already ready to go when I arrived so I just had to do the usual preparations and soon we was in the air.

 

Leaving Angoon

 

Crossing Admiralty Island

 

Down Seumour Canal

We was able to spot a couple of bears with babys on this flight over the island, and the passenges was really happy and was screaming in joy

 

Glass Island on the left

 

Up to Taku Inlet. The weather has turned a bit bad on us, but not a problem for me, it just gives me more joy to fly in

 

Passing by Taku Glacier, a magnificent sight.

 

Landed and taxing to Taku Lodge, I was so exited to come here once again. I remember the really good dinner i got the last time, the plan was to stay until tomorrow and my couple would let me fly them up to Devils Paw and then to Juneau.

 

Docked at Taku Lodge

 

After the dinner and a good Whisky I decided to go outside. I brought my camera with me and met a local who was kind enough to take me for a trip on his boat. When returning to Taku Logde I was able to get this picture.

 

Fortunately the weather was much better the next day and we started off in good weather. Closing in at Devils Paw before setting the course to Juneau

 

Soon we was close to Juneu and during our decent I was able to take this picture of Jueau in the evening when we passed by.

 

My passengers went off and went for more adventures. I had to stay in Juneau for a while as my Beaver needed full overhaul of its engine.

I called the boss and told him the trip went very fine, and that Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins would like to book us for a flight later on. I told him that my plane would be out of operation for a while due to a overhaul and that I was not able to fly anyone.

Of course my boss told me that you will have air under your wings later on today. You need to fly a Pilatus Porter down to Angoon again. The plane had been in Juneau delivering fresh bear meat, but the pilot had gone sick and they needed the plane down in Angoon.

 

I took a taxi out to the airport and found the plane. Talking to owner of the plane on the phone I was told I needed to go to Hawk Inlet to pick up a couple of photograps who needed lift down to Angoon. After a while and checking checklinst and getting comfortable with the Porter we was off again.

 

 

The weather was beautiful and I was looking forward to this trip, first part alone and then some photograps as company. Maybe I was able to get some contact who was interested to buy my pictures as well.

 

 

The course is set towards Hawk Inlet

 

The photograps was not arrived yet, so I took my camera to try to catch some sunset pictures.

 

After an hour we was ready for take off and we was on our way down to Angoon. It would be a great flight, weather was ok and the sunset beautiful. Of course there was a lot of talk about photography and photos.

 

 

 

 

The time went fast and suddenly we was ready for a landing back in Angoon.

 

It was great to be back and I looked forward to the next couple of days together with the photograps.

 

But if I know The Boss, he will soon have new adventures for me that I just have to be a part of.

 

[Gjest Emil-André Gundersen]

Suveren story og noen av de beste bildene jeg harr sett her på forumet

hvilken moddel er det ? pilatusen ?

[Ivar Skaugstad]

Superknall!

Dette har jeg ventet lenge på, ser ut som det begynner å bli sommer i Alaska også.

 

Flotte bilder og en meget kreativ historie, slik vil vi busk flygere ha! :grin:

[Jan Arild Gjemble]

Tusen takk for feedback Det er morro å legge ned litt arbeid når man får slike kommentarer.

 

Pilatusen kommer fra

 

FSD-International

 

og er versjon 2 av dette flyet

[Jan Arild Gjemble]

Sommeren er på god gang Ivar, og det har vært noen nydelige dager nå.

 

Du får få unna hjelpesendingene dine til Burma og hive deg over Stillehavet til Alaska direkte fra Burma

[Tommy Bernes]

Nydelige bilder dette her du serverer, likte det veldig godt ja

[Tom Arild Hansen]

FanTASTISKE bilder! Men du må da ha lurt inn ekte vann på dette bildet:

 

 

 

.. hvis ikke - hva er det? Ground Environment USA/Canada eller noe? Takk for nydelig bilder!

[Jan Arild Gjemble]

Takk for det Tom Arild

 

Det er nok ikke "ekte" vann, men jeg kjører Ground Environment X USA/Canada, Flight Environment X, Active Sky X og Graphics X. Her er det vel FEX som skaper denne effekten på vannet

[Jan Arild Gjemble]

Morro du likte det Tommy. Jeg kan love deg at det kommer mer fra denne kanten ettersom TGAT går framover.

 

Dessuten er det enda mer morro nå, etter att jeg fikk Saitek-yoke'en i hus

[Gjest Eivind Oterhals]

Nydelige bilder

[Ernst K.Furuhatt]

Eventyrisk og flott bildereportasje .

[Einar Kristiansen]

Yep..Her er det bare og pakke sammen og dra på villmarkstur.

Djævels flott Jan!