JoHubb 7 Posted November 20, 2017 Author Share Posted November 20, 2017 Had a great few days in Tokyo. The crew is suffering a bit so it was good to have time to chill out, relax, walk and explore this great city and its surroundings. Next leg NE to Obihiro, Tokachi. Initial approach to Obihiro in driving rain, Please login to display this image. and on finals, manual control, with moderate crosswind from west. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted November 22, 2017 Author Share Posted November 22, 2017 Climbing out from Obihiro, en route to NNE to Kamchatsky, UHPP (click on pics to enlarge) Please login to display this image. Flaps up, clean, NNE heading Please login to display this image. Climibing away, snowy mountains in distance behind. Please login to display this image. Initial approach to Kamchatska, UHPP. ATC just told me ILS is unserviceable. Glad it's VFR or it would be an NDB job...even here this would make me sweat. Please login to display this image. This is a freezing, lonely place. And there'll be more of the same tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that as we head for the Aleutians and Alaska. Brrr!!! Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted November 24, 2017 Author Share Posted November 24, 2017 Departing the frozen wastes of the Kamchatka peninsula.Destination is Attu Island, formerly a USCG station, and VFR only. Please login to display this image. Herer we are breaking cloud at Attu island with the runway due N. Please login to display this image. On crosswind leg Rwy 02/20 at Attu. Shemya Island (Eareckson AB) is just 40 nm east with ILS. (click for enlargement) Please login to display this image. Left downwind Rwy 20 Please login to display this image. Turning left base, Please login to display this image. Safely down. Looks like there's a welcoming party! Whey-Hey!! Good ole' Coasties! Please login to display this image. I hope to post a short clip of the approach and landing, either as a .wmv file or on YouTube. No promises! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted November 24, 2017 Author Share Posted November 24, 2017 This picks up just turning left base. There were vicious gusts on short finals - that's my excuse anyways - and I had to plonk her down firmly without any hold off at all. Those big flaps can be a liablity in gusty conditions. I'd probably have made a better fist of it with just two stages, but we walked away..... Sorry there's no sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted November 26, 2017 Author Share Posted November 26, 2017 Short hop over to Eareckson AB. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted November 27, 2017 Author Share Posted November 27, 2017 PASY, Eareckson to PADK, Adak Island. Thence, to Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, PADU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted November 28, 2017 Author Share Posted November 28, 2017 Dutch Harbor to Sitkinak Island. The Loran station was decommissioned in the 1970s I think, but until recently AFAIK the runway was serviceable. Alaska in November! I blame global warming.... Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted December 4, 2017 Author Share Posted December 4, 2017 On to Sitka via Kodiak Island. Here we are parked at Sitka Gutierrez, PASI. Please login to display this image. Short stay here, then on to KOLM, Olympia. Approach in murky conditions. Please login to display this image. and down safely.... Please login to display this image. Delay here to get tyres replaced - Passepartout seems a bit detached at times but it was thanks to him we organised to get these shipped out beforehand. Here we are on initial RNAV approach To KSJC, San Jose, Ca. Landing charges at KSFO were steep, too steep. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted December 12, 2017 Author Share Posted December 12, 2017 Flight from KSJC to KASE uneventful. No photos available due to flat battery. KASE to KFWA, Fort Wayne, Indiana: On DME arc for intercept ILS Rwy 32. Not particularly welcoming we thought.. Please login to display this image. Just landed, flaps up, hunting around for correct taxiway. Passepartout, for all his Gallic charm is really hopeless as a co-pilot. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted December 12, 2017 Author Share Posted December 12, 2017 Climbing out from Ft Wayne, IN enroute to KLDJ, Linden, NY Please login to display this image. Due south of Bethlehem, PA Please login to display this image. Short finals, Linden with JFK runways just visible to north. Please login to display this image. Parked - rain came on just as we started out across the ramp. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted December 13, 2017 Author Share Posted December 13, 2017 Early start from Linden, KLDJ, climbing to west to avoid JFK approaches. This shows initial descent to Halifax, Nova Scotia. METAR for CYHZ OVC 400ft... Please login to display this image. 400ft.... Please login to display this image. minimums...phew, just in time Please login to display this image. We're elsewhere now, taking a 'small' medicinal tincture to calm frayed nerves. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted December 14, 2017 Author Share Posted December 14, 2017 Departing Halifax, Nova Scotia, overhead airfield on easterly heading for St. John's, CYYT Please login to display this image. In descent towards St John's Please login to display this image. Gusting crosswinds, so just two stages of flaps. Aircraft on apron. We're in the terminal warming up. Please login to display this image. Next stage, the Azores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted December 15, 2017 Author Share Posted December 15, 2017 Early morning departure from St John's, Newfoundland. Please login to display this image. Long flight over water with strong crosswind - not what I had hoped for in view of fuel. VFR conditions at Flores, Azores Islands, otherwise it would have been an NDB app with CTL. Turning base for Rwy 17, deliberately high. Please login to display this image. Landing..... Please login to display this image. ..and parked. Wow, are we tired and saddlesore! Europe at last! Glad to be this far. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted December 16, 2017 Author Share Posted December 16, 2017 At LPFL, back tracking Rwy 18 for departure. Please login to display this image. Abeam Horta Isla. In the distance Mount Pico, Pico Isla. An extinct volcano (hopefully), it's the highest mountain in Portugal (7700ft). Please login to display this image. Intercepting ILS Rwy 18 Santa Maria, LPAZ. Glideslope not serviceable. Please login to display this image. Parked at Santa Maria airport. British Airways use this as an alternate for B777s enroute from Grand Cayman/Bahamas to LHR.. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 Climbing turn to east from LPAZ. Please login to display this image. On course to LPCS, overhead Santa Maria airfield Please login to display this image. Landing at LPCS, Cascais, west of Lisbon. Please login to display this image. Rolling out on Rwy 35 Please login to display this image. Parked at Cascais. Excellent Aerocondor Flight School here which I personally have used. I am hoping to persuade Passepartout to take a trial lesson. They have a large fleet of beautifully maintained C172 and C182 trainers - at least they had the last time I called in in 2014. It's a bit quiet looking today....:( Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted December 19, 2017 Author Share Posted December 19, 2017 Please login to display this image. Cascais to Bellegarde, Limoges, LFBL. Lined up. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Flare, two stages flaps Please login to display this image. Taxi to parking at Limoges Please login to display this image. Parked. Passepartout knows the city so looking forward to sampling the French cuisine, not to mention, a little wine. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted December 20, 2017 Author Share Posted December 20, 2017 Final leg! Here we are in the cool evening climbing away from the beautiful city of Limoges (I'd almost forgotten how pretty the Limousin girls are - Passepartout made sure I was reminded....) Please login to display this image. Over Kent, south of Sevenoaks Please login to display this image. The Greenwich Dome in the distance Please login to display this image. Home, at last! What a trip! Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted December 21, 2017 Aerosoft Share Posted December 21, 2017 Welcome home Jo! Drinks at the bar, you are 4 behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoHubb 7 Posted December 23, 2017 Author Share Posted December 23, 2017 Thanks for organising it all, Mathijis. I just about managed to find time to do the flying, hence the absence of anything much in the way of a story or comments. Sorry about that. I did manage to make a short film on 24th Nov of the approach and landing at Attu Island, AK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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