Tales of Two Alaskan Airports

[Aharon Dayan]

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



Finished with pushback



Dig nice shiny engines



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



Nice tail view



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



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



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



Entering taxiway from passenger apron spewing engine smoke



look at the plane and all vehicle traffic!!



Still taxiing



Roaring engines continue to spew out engine smoke



Entering into runway 33 for take off





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



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



Climbing through clouds



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



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



Passing famous 20,310 ft high Mount McKinley mountain range



leaving the mountain range which signals start of descent



Descending



Nice tail view of winter Alaskan sun



Engine view at 10,000 ft



Still descending now at 5,000 ft below clouds



View of Tanana River signals start of runway 02left approach



Deploying landing gear showing new tires



On final runway approach with background view of Chena hills



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



Seconds before touchdown



Ok few more seconds



TOUCHDOWN



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



Engines roaring with reverse thrust



Check out cool fire house and Alaska Airline cargo building



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





Approaching gate one



Arriving at gate 1



Jetway connecting to the plane



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

Regards,

Aharon