You Have To Cross Two Bridges To Get To Runway 10L

[Aharon Dayan]

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a darn nice winter commuter flight from KGPI Glacier Park International Airport located six miles northeast of Kalispell in Montana to KPDX Portland International Airport located just south of the Columbia River 12 miles northeast of downtown Portland in Oregon.

Airborne on climb to F300



Climbing past background view of Doris Mountain



Making right turn to west above background view of Flathead River to start the waypoint route KILLY V448 KARPS V120 GEG J143 LTJ



Now at correct westward still climbing to F300 with background view of mountains of Flathead National Forest



Leaving background view of the same mountain range mentioned above



Now cruising at FL300 at mach 0.80



Passing Hayden suburb of city of Coeur d'Alene with view of Hayden Lake on right and highway route number 95 on left of the plane



Passing Spokane suburb called Spokane Valley where you can see just behind left wing a big rectangular shaped building which is actually Spokane Valley Mall and exactly below tip of the left wing is highway intersection of two highways which are highway number 90 running across the screenshot and highway number 27 running from top to bottom of the screenshot with nice view of Spokane river



Passing KSFF Felts Field, which long long before opening of Spokane airport, was original Spokane airport located five miles northeast of downtown Spokane with highway route 90 off tip of left wing and Sponake River off tip of right wing while the plane is directly above highway 290 called East Trent Avenue that you can see out of the planes tail



Passing center of city of Spokane



Cruising above beautiful winter landscape



Passing 9,145 ft high Mount Stuart located in the central part of the Washington Cascades



Passing two famous mountains which are Mount Ranier in back and Mount St. Helens in front



On final runway approach to runway 10 left



Passing the Oregon Slough Railroad Bridge also known as the BNSF Railway Bridge 8.8  which is used regularly by freight trains of both BNSF and Union Pacific Railroad as well as by Amtrak passenger trains on routes connecting Portland with Seattle and with Chicago via Spokane. The island on right side of the plane is called Hayden Island located in Columbia River between Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon.



Passing bridge called I5 Bridge that is part of highway route number 5



Still on final runway approach to runway 10 left



Above Columbia river separating states of Washington and Oregon



Seconds before touchdown



TOUCHDOWN



Still producing long tire smokes while front landing glides down very very slow





More cool tire smokes!!



Exiting from runway 10 left into taxiway A2 toward the gate



Arrived at gate



Thank you for viewing!!! Please stay tuned for next exciting flight!!

Regards,

Aharon