Friday, December 4, 2020 - The Long Way Down, flight 02

[Paughco]

Guys: Our first flight was a success. We all familiarized ourselves with the P-51D Mustang, particularly as pertains to cold weather and high altitude operations. Now we will fly from Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, to Ketchikan, Alaska (PAKT). Instead of high altitude, we'll be flying through scenic river valleys down to Haines, AK, then a direct boogie through the inland straights of Southern Alaska. Here is the SkyVector flight plan: https://skyvector.com/?ll=59.9814027825 ... LAE%20PAKT.

The ICAO for Ketchikan changed from PAKX to PAKT sometime back. If you , You'll need to select the "Use Navigraph for all features" option in the Scenery Library menu when you import the SkyVector route into Little Nav Map. If you program your GPS with PAKX as your destination you'll end flying West across the Gulf of Alaska to a desolate strip next to Lake Clark, waaaayy out in the boonies. So we're going to PAKT.

Meet: 1845z or earlier to check out your airplane, warm it up, etc.
Take Off: 1900z
Sim time for take off: 1100 local
Weather: Real, Historical for the time and date of our flight, or custom if bad.
Network: JoinFS
Server: Digital Themepark
Comms: A2A Discord.

Distance for LWD02 is 668 miles, and will take about 2 h 29 m at a ground speed of 268 knots. Block fuel is 171 gallons. I plan to run full wing tanks and about 30 gallons in the fuselage tank.

Seeya
ATB

[twsharp12]

Won't personally be able to make it, but this route looks sweet.

[ianfisher 101]

Due to a work commitment that's just come in I won't be able to join you for this leg. Apologies and have a good flight.