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General => Simple Insanity => Topic started by: Aharon Dayan on April 05, 2020, 01:42:17 PM

Title: Tales of Two Alaskan Airports
Post by: Aharon Dayan on April 05, 2020, 01:42:17 PM
Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting the most famous Alaskan commuter route between two Alaskan cities Anchorage and Fairbanks

At international terminal of PANC

(https://i.ibb.co/gmTBfwY/af2.jpg)

Finished with pushback

(https://i.ibb.co/89RT10F/af1.jpg)

Dig nice shiny engines

(https://i.ibb.co/7v6hn3f/af3.jpg)

Is it nice to have brand new tire replacements before flight?

(https://i.ibb.co/CMtrd6c/af4.jpg)

Nice tail view

(https://i.ibb.co/PWRdMjz/af5.jpg)

All airport vehicles waiting for the plane to start engines and taxi away

(https://i.ibb.co/8b2qh3j/af6.jpg)

Dont you love very smoky engine start while the engines roar to alive?

(https://i.ibb.co/FXGKcS9/af7.jpg)

Starting to make u-turn taxi to leave passenger apron for taxiway

(https://i.ibb.co/0tHgmRc/af8.jpg)

Entering taxiway from passenger apron spewing engine smoke

(https://i.ibb.co/0Z7hmwy/af9.jpg)

look at the plane and all vehicle traffic!!

(https://i.ibb.co/J7kY96y/af10.jpg)

Still taxiing

(https://i.ibb.co/bBcSqJS/af11.jpg)

Roaring engines continue to spew out engine smoke

(https://i.ibb.co/p0yvgGk/af12.jpg)

Entering into runway 33 for take off

(https://i.ibb.co/PDhfRhQ/af13.jpg)

(https://i.ibb.co/HY2LcZ8/af14.jpg)

Airborne on climb to 21,000 ft past beach shore of Point Woronzof and its Point Woronzof Park which is one of popular spots for PANC airport spotting photographers catching view of planes taking off or landing

(https://i.ibb.co/7XHdYnJ/af15.jpg)

Making right turn to execute the route HOBBS BGQ EGRAM CACHE with background view of the forest of Point MacKenzie and waters of Knik Arm

(https://i.ibb.co/0r999F5/af16.jpg)

Climbing through clouds

(https://i.ibb.co/V3y3ZqL/af17.jpg)

Still climbing with background view of Susitna River which is 15th largest river in America

(https://i.ibb.co/PTM27Zb/af18.jpg)

Nice view of engines working hard.Forgot to identify this lake that has runway next to it (anybody knows??)

(https://i.ibb.co/zh1H7zj/af19.jpg)

Passing famous 20,310 ft high Mount McKinley mountain range

(https://i.ibb.co/qDXkPPj/af20.jpg)

leaving the mountain range which signals start of descent

(https://i.ibb.co/t2V5TyR/af21.jpg)

Descending

(https://i.ibb.co/DR9hRg5/af22.jpg)

Nice tail view of winter Alaskan sun

(https://i.ibb.co/wsxqJ2Z/af23.jpg)

Engine view at 10,000 ft

(https://i.ibb.co/zNRLGkC/af24.jpg)

Still descending now at 5,000 ft below clouds

(https://i.ibb.co/mHvHKJd/af25.jpg)

View of Tanana River signals start of runway 02left approach

(https://i.ibb.co/HXwYKGM/af26.jpg)

Deploying landing gear showing new tires

(https://i.ibb.co/CBK8Dgf/af27.jpg)

On final runway approach with background view of Chena hills

(https://i.ibb.co/1ZBG0rd/af28.jpg)

You can see road traffic on the road called Airport Perimeter Road

(https://i.ibb.co/6yK0584/af29.jpg)

Seconds before touchdown

(https://i.ibb.co/pZrTgmk/af30.jpg)

Ok few more seconds

(https://i.ibb.co/jG03Trz/af31.jpg)

TOUCHDOWN

(https://i.ibb.co/KWLVL49/af32.jpg)

Engaging reverse thrusters while front landing gear is making slow glide down to make soft touchdown

(https://i.ibb.co/xjTVWW1/af33.jpg)

Engines roaring with reverse thrust

(https://i.ibb.co/S6Hz5QG/af34.jpg)

Check out cool fire house and Alaska Airline cargo building

(https://i.ibb.co/t2thgbT/af35.jpg)

Exiting from runway 02left into taxiway B to taxi to gate one

(https://i.ibb.co/gwzT63M/af36.jpg)

(https://i.ibb.co/vk1ymNZ/af37.jpg)

Approaching gate one

(https://i.ibb.co/fFv8pBK/af38.jpg)

Arriving at gate 1

(https://i.ibb.co/P1XNMw7/af39.jpg)

Jetway connecting to the plane

(https://i.ibb.co/J3K3vHp/af40.jpg)

Thank you for viewing.  Stay tuned for next exciting flight!!

Regards,

Aharon