FSX Believe It Or Not Alaska Airline Did Operate Hercules!!

[Aharon 606]

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a nice Alaska Airlines Hercules action via flight from PAAQ Palmer Municipal Airport located 1 mile southeast of the central business district of Palmer in Matanuska-Susitna Borough of Alaska to PAHO Homer Airport located two miles east of the central business district of Homer in the Kenai Peninsula Borough of Alaska.

Getting ready for fight to Homer that is considered and known as the Halibut Fishing Capital of the World.

Starting engines!!

Right engines started and revved up

Starting left engines

Gauges indicating that engines are ready for taxi!

Starting to taxi to short of runway 34

Entering into taxiway on way to runway 34

Still taxiing on taxiway towards the runway

Nice cockpit view of mountains of Chugach State Park

Holding short of runway 34 to check for any GA plane

Entering into runway 34 with background view of Buffalo Soapstone mountain range

Cockpit view of entering into runway 34

Ready for take off!!

Roaring down the runway

Airborne on climb to fl200 making sharp left turn to avoid high mountains ahead

You can see how high the mountains are that the plane managed to avoid after successful sharp left turn after take off

Still climbing to fl200

Because of regulations of the forums not permitting more than 20 screenshots per post, please be kind enough to go to this hyperlink below to view rest of awesome Hercules action

Here is the hyperlink: https://calclassic.proboards.com/thread/10046/believe-alaska-airline-operate-hercules

Thank you for viewing.  Please stay tuned for next exciting flight

Regards,

Aharon

[Pugilist2 878]

Great looking set! Interesting, I did not know that Alaska Airlines operated a C-130.

[olderndirt 2,295]

My first Alaska Air flight was from Anchorage to Fairbanks with a stop at McKinley Park - DC4 (1960).  At that time their flagship was the DC6.  Shortly thereafter they got one of the first CV880's then a gradual transition to B727's with a short spell of L1049's - flying within Alaska and military charters.  Pipleline construction brought the L100's and a CV990 so, if you were an 'Alaska' pilot, your ATP ticket acquired lots of ratings.

Edited August 10, 2020 by olderndirt

[P_7878 6,605]

CS C-130 is a very nice SIM...! I fly it more than occasionally...

Lovely livery of Hercules, here,...(do not recall seeing that "Golden Nugget" Alaskan Freighter, before)...this is a L-100 variant, I believe...thanks for posting the static shots of those (massive) props....!

(I recall a former Alaska Air National Guard Pro making a reference, here, to their C-130s...)

Edited August 10, 2020 by P_7878

[Aharon 606]

Thanks all for very very very kind words.

Thanks to Olderndirt for great facts

Regards,

Aharon