Presenting a darn nice cargo hauling trip recreating historic real world Northern Air Cargo 737-200C flight from PANC Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport located 5 miles southwest of downtown Anchorage to PAOM Nome Airport located two nautical miles west of the central business district of Nome
Cargo being loaded into the plane. Yep somebody in Nome got rich either from fishing catches or oil strike findings enough to buy Porchse!!
Cargo door closing after finishing the cargo loading
Doing pre-flight checklist including testing rudder and all flaps which you can see the tail rudder being tested
Making sure the cargo door is properly shut
Leaving cargo apron to taxi to taxiway K
Entering into taxiway K to make long taxiing to runway 07L
Still continuing on long taxi while some driver of oil refuel tanker is trying to beat the plane in race
Making last minute runway change to enter into runway 07R for take off after being informed by the PANC airport tower that runway 07R is closed temporarily due to some debris left on the runway by previous planes
Airborne now after take off on climb to FL300 making left turn toward west with ground view of Fish Creek river and Fish Creek Estuary below the plane nose
Leaving background view of PANC area to start the route ANC J111 MCG J111 OME while continuing its climb to FL300
Still climbing
Still climbing with background view of Mount Susitna. Not sure if the lake in front of the mountain is ice or polluted as it cannot be both due to August month and Alaska does not have polluted lakes
Close up SAME view of strange lake color
Approaching Kuskokwim River renowned for gold deposits clearly indicates that the plane is getting close to intercept MCG
Intercepting MCG and passing McGrath airport and heading to UNK
Intercepting UNK and passing Unalakleet Airport renowned as home base for famous Jim Tweto and his family
Approaching Unalaska Bay indicates time to descent from FL300 to 3,000 ft on way to runway 26
Passing through clouds at 7,000 ft
Passing through more clouds which can be fun as long as you have radar to detect other planes
More clouds to enter
On final approach above Nome Bypass road seen below the plane on way to runway 26
Passing abandoned rough strip runway
Passing Port of Nome
Seconds before touchdown
TOUCHDOWN
Engaging reverse thrusters
Backtracking
Leaving runway 26 to enter into passenger and cargo apron
Unloading cargo for people of town of Nome
Thank you for viewing. Stay tuned for next flight.
Regards,
Aharon
