So today I took a 4 pax charter in the trusty PC-12 rolling from PAKT to lovely Yellowknife CYZF-the home of Buffalo Air! As it happened I had the camera crew and all the gear onboard for the trip who were doing the current season of "Ice Pilots"....what a great gig. They were coming direct from doing aerial shots in support of "Deadliest Catch" and had been stuck in Ketchikan.
Cool of EuroBusiness Charters to hook 'em up.
Flight plan:
CETK5.ANN (the SID from PAKT) DUXAR IGSEL YYE NOXAN NAKTO XIKIX GADEB
About 720 miles or so. Man did I ever hit high altitude cross winds at my planned FL230.
Anyway...I had lovely VATSIM control from PAKT through to Edmonton airspace which was cool. Its a scenic trip and usually always control to be had online.
So....some images. Enjoy!
FL230 over the Rockies and getting blown sideways
FL150 near Hay River. This is stock XP9.7. I just got REX for XPlane but have not put it in yet. Can't wait to see those results.
FL070 over Great Slave Lake. As X-Plane does not have the ILS approach I went with the NDB. No biggie and good practice.
The weather was just taking a turn for the worse as I landed. Slippery runway and blowing snow=long rollout.
Parking up at Buffalo Air headquarters. Gotta get a t-shirt!
And with one of the water bombers in the background I get her shut down. Snow falling and cold--but a great trip. See ya next time!
