RFields
September 14th, 2009, 10:47
Linda and I are on a cruise ship near the Hubbard Glacier up the inlet from Yakatat - PAYA - right now.
Yesterday we were in Ketchikan and took a flight in a Beaver float plane to Misty Fiords National Monument. The bird was build in 1952, a few months before I was born. We landed on one of the lakes and I got to sit in the right hand seat for the flight back. The Beaver has a glass panel with a GPS which looks one heck of a lot like the FS2004 GPS screen and a PFD. About 4-5 inches across.
Theses are a couple pics. We flew on N5160G, not the plane in this photo.
http://www.flightsim2004-fanatics.com/FlightSim/FSImages/FloatPlane_RL.jpg
This is just after takeoff from the interior lake
http://www.flightsim2004-fanatics.com/FlightSim/FSImages/FloatPlaneTakeoff.jpg
I'll have more pictures when we get back
Yesterday we were in Ketchikan and took a flight in a Beaver float plane to Misty Fiords National Monument. The bird was build in 1952, a few months before I was born. We landed on one of the lakes and I got to sit in the right hand seat for the flight back. The Beaver has a glass panel with a GPS which looks one heck of a lot like the FS2004 GPS screen and a PFD. About 4-5 inches across.
Theses are a couple pics. We flew on N5160G, not the plane in this photo.
http://www.flightsim2004-fanatics.com/FlightSim/FSImages/FloatPlane_RL.jpg
This is just after takeoff from the interior lake
http://www.flightsim2004-fanatics.com/FlightSim/FSImages/FloatPlaneTakeoff.jpg
I'll have more pictures when we get back