I had mixed feelings today as I am a Seattle Seahawks fan and I also lived in Chicago for a few years and couldn't help but become a fan of "da Bears".
These two teams were playing each other today to see who made it to the NFC championship game next week (and the winner of the NFC plays the winner of the AFC for the Super Bowl after that).
So I decided to do a flight between the two city's as they are also among my favorite places to fly in the flight sim world...
UAL985 from KSEA (Seattle) to KORD (Chicago O'Hare). It was an early morning flight leaving KSEA at 07:00 arriving in Chicago some four hours later at 13:00hrs CT.
N terminal KSEA
Departure weather at KSEA was not great and typical of the PNW this time of year. Wind was 200/12kts with clouds 900 broken in light rain with a temperature of 12C. This called for a MTN.5 departure from runway 16L and it was a bumpy ride out to say the least as a frontal boundary was directly over northern Washington state.
Taking to the active KSEA
Once I climb to my flight level of 35'000ft I enjoyed a great view of the sunrise and an awesome 135kt tail wind! I was eating up the real estate on my way east and running well ahead of time saving lots of fuel on the way too. Light snow flurries were forecast for Chicago later this afternoon but I would be in well ahead of them.
Sunrise in the 763 cockpit and a 135kt tail wind!
The trip east was mainly overcast the entire way but once I reached Illinois the clouds coverage started to break up. KORD arrival weather was wind 320/07kts with clouds 3'400ft few and 12'000 broken with a chilly -11C. KORD is nuts with many runway in use and busy KMDW (Midway) in the same vicinity as KORD.
I used the JVL.4 arrival on to runway 32L. In the real world you would get vectors to your approach but I had planned on flying from the last fix on the STAR KRENA, then flying down wind to the CGT VOR and turn base to my IAF JEEFF for 32L and a very long 30nm final!
On loooong down wind for 32L at KORD
I passed just east KMDW near the LUMPY fix at 5'000ft and was in and out of clouds all the way down until the 2'000ft call out. I shut the A/P and A/T off and hand flew the rest of the approach.
Short final 32L KORD
It's was a very quick 3hr 21min flight. For the record the Bears won.
Turn around at KORD
Maybe it will be a Bears vs Jets final and I can do a KJFK-KORD-KDFW run?
(the Super Bowl is in Dallas this year)
2 comments:
I see you're enjoying the LVD 767, huh...?
I love the base shot as well as the very short final capture, the latter being extremely realistic.
That should say long DOWN WIND! Too tired maybe?
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