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Shalom and greetings all my pals,

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

Interesting how Microsoft's landclass thought Alaska was that green with trees. Nome seems to have had a hell of a lot development. The 'abandoned' dirt strip is actually City Field. Not abandoned by any stretch but has a few decrepit aeroplanes on it. Even rich people wouldn't bring Porches to Nome The drive from the airport to the town would destroy them. Fun stuff.

Nice flight , I do like that paint on the the old 73

chopper_nut wrote:The 'abandoned' dirt strip is actually City Field. Not abandoned by any stretch but has a few decrepit aeroplanes on it. .

Thank you for kind words.

That is pretty amazing and impressive. How do you know?? I thought you live in New Zealand or within Pacific Rim??? Do you live in Alaska?? When I was writing this flight report, I looked all over on Internet including Google maps and local maps of town of Nome and they did not have any name on that strip!!!

chopper_nut wrote: Even rich people wouldn't bring Porches to Nome The drive from the airport to the town would destroy them. Fun stuff.

You never know HAHAHAHA hey rich people do move from lower 48 states to Alaska to escape pollution, noise, and crime!! Smiling You might be right about the roads of town of Nome.

Splitpin,

Thank you for your kind words

Regards,

Aharon

I live in Oregon now but I'm working for a company in Nome just for the summer. We get NAC, Everts, Lynden, Alaska Airlines freighters here most days. Interesting place aviation wise

chopper_nut wrote:. Not abandoned by any stretch but has a few decrepit aeroplanes on it. Even rich people wouldn't bring Porches to Nome The drive from the airport to the town would destroy them. Fun stuff.

Maybe it's a Porsche 911 Dakar

Heh... also to get the Porsche out, they unfortunately had to use a can opener to unzip the side of the Boeing.
So you have to factor in the cost of an airframe too.

I thoroughly enjoyed flying the Tinmouse 737-200 around in FS9. It didn't really have a VC but that didn't really matter. Install the CIVA INS units and you could go anywhere. It had one of the best photo real set of panels of the time. The other cool one was David Maltby's BAC 1-11.

Naki wrote:

chopper_nut wrote:. Not abandoned by any stretch but has a few decrepit aeroplanes on it. Even rich people wouldn't bring Porches to Nome The drive from the airport to the town would destroy them. Fun stuff.

Maybe it's a Porsche 911 Dakar

Nome is where cars come to die

chopper_nut wrote: I'm working for a company in Nome just for the summer. We get NAC, Everts, Lynden, Alaska Airlines freighters here most days. Interesting place aviation wise

AWESOME Must be fun for you to take photos of planes of those cargo airlines mentioned above at Nome airport.

THAT EXPLAINS how you know the name of the abandoned strip that I could not find on Internet!

Regards.

Aharon

I also like to remember the Boeing 737-200, I think mine was from Milviz.

hasegawa wrote:I also like to remember the Boeing 737-200, I think mine was from Milviz.

Yes Milviz 737-200 is FREEWARE now for use of FSX. I am too afraid to install it. HAHHAHAHAHA

Regards,

Aharon