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Thanksgiving Fly To Anchorage With Unexpected Windy Landing

Posted: 27 Nov 2016, 18:38
by Aharon
Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a Thanksgiving flight from PACD Cold Bay Airport also known as Thornbrough Air Force Base located in Cold Bay in the Aleutians East Borough of Alaska to PANC Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport located 5 miles southwest of downtown Anchorage where all military servicemen and servicewomen go home in the major Alaskan city or catch connecting flights to go home in other Alaskan cities or anywhere in America.

Airborne after take off from PACD with nice background view of sunrise above waters of Cold Bay

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Great tail view

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Engine view of the same bay

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Still climbing to FL310 with background view of waters of Pavlof Bay

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Dig nice sunrise

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Cruising at FL310

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Cruising along waters of Bering Sea shore where you can see Nelson Lagoon at lower right corner of screenshot where PAOU Nelson Lagoon Airport is located

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Drooling over sunrise

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Bering Sea shore

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Cruising above waters of Bering Sea

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Cruising past Naknek river

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Descending slowly above waters of Illiama Lake

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Passing Big River Lakes in the area of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve

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At 10,000 ft

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At 5,000 ft above waters of Cook Inlet

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On final runway approach to runway 07R

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Passing trees of Kincaid Park on way to runway 07R

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WHOA WHOA powerful winds are affecting my proper approach path!! Got to make lots of maneuvering adjustments!!

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Still battling winds while the plane wavered little bit like a boat

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Landing on left wheels and then right wheels

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Finally both wheels on ground splattering and spewing lots of snow dust

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Braking down in snowy runway

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Exiting from runway 07R into taxiway D toward gatw

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Crossing runway 07L

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

Regards,

Aharon