Aharon 465 Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 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 Please login to display this image. Climbing past background view of Doris Mountain Please login to display this image. Making right turn to west above background view of Flathead River to start the waypoint route KILLY V448 KARPS V120 GEG J143 LTJ Please login to display this image. Now at correct westward still climbing to F300 with background view of mountains of Flathead National Forest Please login to display this image. Leaving background view of the same mountain range mentioned above Please login to display this image. Now cruising at FL300 at mach 0.80 Please login to display this image. 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 Please login to display this image. 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 Please login to display this image. 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 Please login to display this image. Passing center of city of Spokane Please login to display this image. Cruising above beautiful winter landscape Please login to display this image. Passing 9,145 ft high Mount Stuart located in the central part of the Washington Cascades Please login to display this image. Passing two famous mountains which are Mount Ranier in back and Mount St. Helens in front Please login to display this image. On final runway approach to runway 10 left Please login to display this image. 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. Please login to display this image. Passing bridge called I5 Bridge that is part of highway route number 5 Please login to display this image. Still on final runway approach to runway 10 left Please login to display this image. Above Columbia river separating states of Washington and Oregon Please login to display this image. Seconds before touchdown Please login to display this image. TOUCHDOWN Please login to display this image. Still producing long tire smokes while front landing glides down very very slow Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. More cool tire smokes!! Please login to display this image. Exiting from runway 10 left into taxiway A2 toward the gate Please login to display this image. Arrived at gate Please login to display this image. Thank you for viewing!!! Please stay tuned for next exciting flight!! Regards, Aharon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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