May 13, 201610 yr Shalom and greetings all my pals, Presenting a nice simple era 1960 commuter flight from CYYC Calgary International Airport located 11 miles northeast of downtown Calgary to CYEG Edmonton International Airport located 14 miles southwest of downtown Edmonton Passengers boarding the plane Pushback being delayed for 15 minutes due to some emergency in another plane Starting engines! Taxiing to short of runway 16 Entering into taxiway J to continue taxiing to short of runway 16 Entering into runway 16 for take off Airborne on climb to FL150 Making left turn toward north with background view of downtown Calgary and its river called Bow River where you can see Calgary Tower, two red buildings called Suncor Energy Centre, Hyatt Regency Calgary hotel building in front of two red buildings, and building on left side of two red buildings is called Fifth Avenue office building but I could not identify five more buildings on left side. Passing waters of Glenmore Reservoir in southwest Calgary Still climbing to FL150 with background view of entire city of Calgary Making few adjust turns with nice background view of Banff mountains Now cruising at FL150 Making more adjustment turn Passing CEX3 Wetaskiwin Regional Airport with its famous Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame building located within the city of Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada Passing Coal Lake which is actually glacial meltwater channel from the last ice age On final runway approach to runway 30 Don't you love sunset landing? Because of regulations of the forums not allowing more than 20 screenshots per post, please be kind enough to go to this hyperlink below to view the rest of the flight. Here is the link: http://vatil.org.il/forum/index.php/topic/43588-short-era-1960-commuter-flight-from-calgary-to-edmonton/ Thank you for viewing!! Stay tuned for next exciting flight. Regards, Aharon
May 13, 201610 yr Beautiful! I always did like the CP Air livery on any of their planes. One of the planes in my FSX hangar is an MD-11 in a fantasy CP Air livery. Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
May 13, 201610 yr Great shots, Aharon. Love the vintage 60's and 70's aircraft Carl PC AMD Ryzen R7-5700G (8-Core) processor), AMD Radeon RX 6600 Graphics 8GB/ 2TB HD + 500GB SSD, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM, Win11 _____________________________________________________________________________________
May 13, 201610 yr Hi Aharon, great pics. When I was a kid, I had a poster of a CP DC-10 on my wall. Brings back nice memories. Later, Wardair and Canadian were among my favorites. Intel core i5-12600KF, ASRock B760-H2/M2, Kingston DDR5-4800 32 GB, Asus Geforce RTX 4060 TI 16GB, Samsung SSD 980 1 TB M.2 SSD, Lexar NM790 SSD 2TB
May 14, 201610 yr Author Thanks for kind words, Highbypass, Ctiger, Duesenwerni, and FDX777!! One of the planes in my FSX hangar is an MD-11 in a fantasy CP Air livery. Would it be Overland model? Regards, Aharon
May 14, 201610 yr ...Would it be Overland model?.. No, the IFDG. Here's a screenshot Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
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