Taking the Bald Eagle from LAX to SLC

 

Getting ready for pushback

 

United 757 taxiing by

 

Ready to pull chocks

 

Tug getting hooked up

 

Pushing.....

 

Departing...China Cargo 747 taxiing by

 

Climbing out

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Approaching KLAS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apps used when capturing these screens:

P3d 2.5

Aerosoft A319

Paint: Hogi's Frontier Bald Eagle 

Scenery: LAX default, Socal Megascenery, KLAS Megascenery

That bald eagle sure can fly Steve   I don't think you got much sleep last night

 

 

That bald eagle sure can fly Steve   I don't think you got much sleep last night

 

Thanks Chris!  

Sleep?  Highly overrated.  At my age, where I have (given a normal life span) more years behind me than ahead, sleep is a necessity that only serves to keep my physical body from collapsing. :smile:

Given an average of 8 hours per night (not nearly what I get now, but averaged in with all those infant/toddler years where we typically got far more than 8 through parent-imposed naps), I've already slept 18 years of my life away! :Yawn:   That's longer than some of our fellow simmers have been on this planet!

 

I have too much to do in my time left on this rock, and the bucket list just keeps getting additions, at a rate far faster than I can scratch them off.    

 

Anyway, I get enough sleep to survive, hehe.  And....flying the 777 with one of its best features enabled (auto time compression),I can get some "crew rest" in the duty bunk while Otto takes her to far away lands. 

 

And that eagle sure can fly...the Airbus has really found a place in my hangar, after years of shunning by me because of my lack of commitment to learn to fly her.  If you will, it was one of the things on my bucket list..."Learn to fly the Airbus as proficiently as I do Boeings."  Not totally there yet, but can line half-way through that item on the bucket list.

Super shots!

Oooooh!  I like that last one  :wub:

Love those colors....great shots!

 

HLJAMES

Certainly reminds me of my first real life jet flight, in the mid 60's. A Boeing 720B from LAX to SLC with a stop in Vegas.

 

 

Certainly reminds me of my first real life jet flight, in the mid 60's. A Boeing 720B from LAX to SLC with a stop in Vegas.

Thanks Mr. Adamson!  The first flight I remember was a DC-8 out of Honolulu back to the states in the early 60's.

I only know it wasn't a 707 (or 720) because it didn't have a machine gun on the top of the vertical stab like the other planes parked at the gates. (At least thast what I thought it was at that age, turned out to be a pitot tube, hehe).  I was not a happy toddler, LOL! 

Of course it could have be a Convair 880 as well...I was not as proficient at identifying aircraft types in those days...hehe