Flight into the rockies
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 6:51 pmJust yesterday I decided to take Aeroworx's King Air for a spin, I just got the plane not too long ago, and im loving it. My destination will be Castlegar from Calgary. Yep I know thats the flight in the tutorial, but since Calgary is my home, i decided to try it myself... my own flight plan naturally :)
Starting from Calgary, snows just melting but its just freezing out. -17 degrees c. Gotta be sure my anti-ice is working ;)
Climbing to the mountains
Blankets of snow on the Rockies
Descending into castlegar, here it seems to be building up a lot of clouds, yikes.
Heres where it got scary, at the elevation of castlegar, about less than 2000 ft as i last remembered, I had almost no visibility, I could not see the runway or anything. Here im circling around the airfield. My gear and flaps already down to give me the drag I need as this is a steep and low vis landing... now I know why the tutorial stated this was a difficult approach.
Whew, made it on the ground, and parked. Lots of snow, eeks
Starting from Calgary, snows just melting but its just freezing out. -17 degrees c. Gotta be sure my anti-ice is working ;)
Climbing to the mountains
Blankets of snow on the Rockies
Descending into castlegar, here it seems to be building up a lot of clouds, yikes.
Heres where it got scary, at the elevation of castlegar, about less than 2000 ft as i last remembered, I had almost no visibility, I could not see the runway or anything. Here im circling around the airfield. My gear and flaps already down to give me the drag I need as this is a steep and low vis landing... now I know why the tutorial stated this was a difficult approach.
Whew, made it on the ground, and parked. Lots of snow, eeks