Sun just gracing the peaks here as we inch closer to Salt Lake City. We are on a track that takes us from FLG-Flagstaff,Az VOR to DTA-Delta, AZ to set up for the Jammn4 arrival. The weather and winds are great and showing just under an hour to go.
It's core population is only around 181,000 people but with the surrounding area reaches over 1,000,000. Didn't get to go out and visit but Salt Lake wasn't what I expected. I thought it would have had a larger downtown core.
So far this is the longest DIRECT routing I have ever been given. It was from Rock Springs VOR (OCS) to Kitchener, Ontario. It was about 1280 nautical miles without a turn. Amazingly with a 90 kt tailwind it only took 4 hours 30 minutes to go from Salt Lake City. Departing Salt Lake they vectored us west till we got enough altitude and then sent us over the mountains to the east. It was sky clear the whole way. I guess I lied about flying 1280 nm without a turn. After traveling almost 1180 miles we contacted Toronto Center and then got vectored. We came across a whole continent undisturbed. I am not sure if it is healthy but when I used to fly scheds I used to think an hour and half was really long and always would be dying to go to the washroom. Now I can fly from Florida direct to Toronto spend 5 hours in a seat and not go once till I land. Mind you I don't drink anything till the last 30 minutes of the flight.
A better view of where we are headed. We cut through Wyoming, a slice of Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and then Ontario. I must say we got around the past 3 days.

4500 NM and 4 days later we are back to where we started from. The routing almost looks like the grim reapers sickle, maybe its been too long typing up this post :) Next post contains some more pictures of the SLC-YKF flight, some crossing the Mississippi shots and the boring plains of Iowa. Like Bob says, stick within your margins.
Cheers, FD
PS.Tto the crazy guy who keeps sending me weird comments, please stop :)
Cheers, FD
PS.Tto the crazy guy who keeps sending me weird comments, please stop :)
2 comments:
Good post and pics! That's one heck of a direct route.
And , c'mon, that track obviously made a windsock, not a sickle! :)
Windsock ! No kidding must just have a warped mind :)
So when are you buying a share in the Columbia ? :)
What about the turbine, pressurized Lancair ? Costs 500,000 grand but you can do 310 knots at 25,000 feet and fly 1000 miles in a single shot !
That's KJGG-CYYZ in like 1 hr and 45 ! or KJGG-KMIA in 2 45 !
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