At the gate PANC
Alaska Airlines does not do direct flights from PANC (Anchorage) to PASI (Sitka) but I decided to do one anyway. The flight plan is simple enough, ANC V440 BKA.
Pushing back
Weather at PANC was wind 060/11kts with clouds 7'000 few and 11'000 scattered with a chilly -4C. Using the ANC.4 departure off runway 07R.
Lake Hood SPB
The 737-700 was very lightly loaded today and with the short runway at PASI (6'500ft), with poor weather forecast, this made the task at hand a little easier.
I climbed like a rocket and made my way down the coast. Passing over such places as Yakutat on the way.
Arrival weather at PASI was not near minimums but was not great either. Light snow and +1C with wind 278/03kts. Clouds 700 scattered with 2'600 broken and only 2 miles visibility. Using the runway 11 LDA approach the minimums are 400ft with an offset to the runway.
Short final PASI
At the 500ft call I hand flew it and plonked it down very hard and made a little skip with a bounce. A shitty landing to say the least.
Checking for damage PASI
Not a flight I care to remember with some sloppy flying all around. I'm sure if this was the real deal I would be getting a call into the office. All in all it is still a load of fun, and the PMDG NGX is an amazing bird in the FS world. Terrain on the ND is very cool (as is the HUD that I did not use).
4 comments:
Looks like fun Al. I'm also waiting for the FS9 PANC, and then lots of frozen flights will ensue!
Was fun! FSX is such an unstable bugger though. Can't see flying the big iron in it too much, just that the NGX is so awesome I can't help myself at times.
I say your short final profile is perfect for a low visibility LDA approach with the offset too.
Looks like it was an outstanding ride to touchdown there.
The ride down was great, but the landing was brutal! :D
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