Aeroperú had six 757-200's in their fleet and went the way of the dodo bird after the tragic crash of flight 603 on October 2nd 1996.
The flight today is PLI#991, a mid afternoon leg from SEQU (Quito, Ecuador) to SPIM (Lima, Peru). A touch over 735nm.
At the gate SEQU
Weather at SEQU was a cool 14C but figuring that we are almost 10'000ft above sea level here it only makes sense it would be cool. Wind was 350/02kts with clouds 1'000 few and 2'000 broken. Using the 3A SID off runway 35 that has us make a right turn while climbing after take off heading east, then turning back west towards the QUI VOR at FL160 and on to the UG426 airway to Lima.
Waiting at runway 35 SEQU as a 737-200 lands
It was a long take off roll but the 757 is akin to a rocket ship in my eyes and took to the air with ease as we made our way in and out of cumulus clouds along the departure route. The Quito area is very scenic but we did not see much due to the cloud cover.
Positive rate, gear up....
En route we seen fair weather as we made our way south into Peru, crossing over the Marañón River near Ciro Algeria. Some light chop was encountered but nothing bad. Sky was mostly cloudy with rain showers as we made our way down towards Lima.
Maranon River off to the right
Weather at SPIM was wind 290/06kts with clouds 13'000 broken and +23C. SPIM has no instrument approaches for runway 35, so considering that the tail wind is only six knots for a runway 15 approach. Using the KARPA 1A arrival on to runway 15 I noted that the remarks noted bird hazard on the runway.
Final for runway 15 SPIM
The approach to runway 15 takes you over the Pacific Ocean and a great view of the city of Lima in front of you. Latin VFR did a nice job on this airport.
Spotters shot at SPIM
At 1000ft I hand flew her the rest of the way in and came down on the left main gear first. Not my best landing but not a bad one either.
At the gate SPIM
1HR 58MIN on the log. I head to California and Las Vegas for real next Monday. Hope to get another sim flight in before then. Might take another stab at the J41 as it is evident that I need the practice!
For the record, I seen no birds on the runway upon my arrival at SPIM....
3 comments:
Looks great again, Al! I'd be flying that PSS 757 more often if it didn't perform so badly on my system. Picked up the QW 757 on the weekend, which flies much smoother but of course isn't as detailed as the PSS. I was also glad to see that someone came out with a Lima scenery, as it had been a bit neglected.
Have fun in SoCal; I was just there last weekend for some museum-visiting and spotting at LAX and SAN, which was great.
Hey Pitts, the PSS is running poor on your system? Strange as it ran really well on my D/C PC.
That QW bird looks awesome.
The SPIM scenery is very well done.
And we are looking forward to SoCal and that sunshine for sure, it supposed to snow here today!
Maybe next year we will see you in Arizona!
Al - for some reason (think it's a Vista thing) both the PSS 777 and 757 run like death on my PC. I've tried every known tweak to try and improve the FPS and stutters, to no avail. I get good performance with most other airliner add-ons, but not those two for some reason. I'm probably going to break down and buy something of the Alienware persuasion later this year, and then FPS won't be much of an issue for anything FS9 related. Might even get FSX at that point...although MS Flight might be out then too.
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