Presenting a nice Alaska Airlines Hercules action via flight from PAAQ Palmer Municipal Airport located 1 mile southeast of the central business district of Palmer in Matanuska-Susitna Borough of Alaska to PAHO Homer Airport located two miles east of the central business district of Homer in the Kenai Peninsula Borough of Alaska.
Getting ready for fight to Homer that is considered and known as the Halibut Fishing Capital of the World.
Starting engines!!
Right engines started and revved up
Starting left engines
Gauges indicating that engines are ready for taxi!
Starting to taxi to short of runway 34
Entering into taxiway on way to runway 34
Still taxiing on taxiway towards the runway
Nice cockpit view of mountains of Chugach State Park
Holding short of runway 34 to check for any GA plane
Entering into runway 34 with background view of Buffalo Soapstone mountain range
Cockpit view of entering into runway 34
Ready for take off!!
Roaring down the runway
Airborne on climb to fl200 making sharp left turn to avoid high mountains ahead
You can see how high the mountains are that the plane managed to avoid after successful sharp left turn after take off
Still climbing to fl200
Now cruising southbound at fl200
Passing PAED Elmendorf Air Force Base located north of Anchorage
Passing Port of Anchroge seen off tip of right wing where you can see three cargo ships docked at and passing Anchorage suburb of Wilson Village seen on left side of the left wing
Passing PAMR Merrill Field airport located one mile east of downtown Anchorage where you can see waters of Westchester lagoon on left side of the screenshot
Passing PANC Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport 5 miles outhwest of downtown Anchorage where you can see frozen water of lake Spenard behind right wing
Passing entire landscape of the same airport
leaving the airport grounds where you can see Kincaid Park in front of left wing
Passing Fire island off Anchorage where you can see unpaved and unnamed runway
Cruising through clouds across waters of Cook Inlet
Descending through clouds
At 5,000 ft flying through clouds to get ready for runway approach to runway 03
On final runway approach
30 seconds before runway passing view of waters of Beluga Slough where you can see lake street road in front of the plane nose
5 seconds before touchdown
TOUCHDOWN
Front landing gear gliding down in most graceful manner
Front wheels making runway contact
Braking down
Taxiing to cargo apron
Thank you for viewing. Please stay tuned for next exciting flight
Regards,
Aharon
