msfs Gorgeous PNW - Fall City to Anacortes

[ryanbatc 13,233]

I'm dreaming of warmer weather with this flight from Fall City (1WA6) to Anacortes (74S) in the C182 RG.  Lovely paint by the very talented Tim-HH.  GTN 750Xi by TDS - now featuring updatable Navigraph database/charts.

I tried to really capture the essence of the Pacific Northwest in these pics - please leave a comment!  And I hope to inspire people to fly in this area.... one of the most beautiful areas in real life (and the sim!)

A backtaxi to start us out - payware from Orbx (a very reasonable price and an excellent scenic location to begin or end a flight)

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That guy is having a rough day...  but I'm going flyin!

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We're underway and it should be a bumpy but short 70 mi flight

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Harvey Field (S43) looks like a hot air balloon ride about to start...

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Called up Paine tower just to skim the edge of their class delta

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The magestic Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains as a backdrop

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I believe that is Whitehorse Mountain and Three Fingers South

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Overhead Camano Island Airfield 13W (incredible freeware at the usual place)

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Passing Whidbey Island NAS (we picked up flight following and a squawk code through their class charlie)

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And approaching 74S - Runway 18 calls for right traffic... so it's overhead midfield for a right turn into the downwind

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This area features many vessels...

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Into the downwind and nearly onto base... the south wind is really kicking us around

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Leaving the shoreline coming to land I hit a large pocket of turbulence so we ended up a bit high here

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Some views of the airport which I highly recommend - there are no published IAPs here

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The hangars are of decent quality - one has a door opened for your aircraft 🙂

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[John F 2,508]

A pleasure to view from beginning to end. That 182RG really looks good in that environment.

[rmeier 494]

Very nice series of photos Ryan!

[andiflyit 585]

Fantastic set, very good setup of the graphics, looks really good! 🙂 Nice plane and a wonderful area.

Started in PNW flying in the successful Orbx region scenery based on landclass a long time ago, of course in FSX

And than I collected these hd airports over the years. But they overlap influencing the performance in the area of the St. Juan islands for example.

And I was struggling and struggling...🙃  this all works in 64-bit of course.

[ikbenik 822]

Pleasant journey to follow and the airport Anacortes shows really fine.

 

[ryanbatc 13,233]

12 hours ago, John F said:

A pleasure to view from beginning to end. That 182RG really looks good in that environment.

Thanks - good plane for the flight

10 hours ago, rmeier said:

Very nice series of photos Ryan!

Thank you

5 hours ago, andiflyit said:

Fantastic set, very good setup of the graphics, looks really good! 🙂 Nice plane and a wonderful area.

Started in PNW flying in the successful Orbx region scenery based on landclass a long time ago, of course in FSX

And than I collected these hd airports over the years. But they overlap influencing the performance in the area of the St. Juan islands for example.

And I was struggling and struggling...🙃  this all works in 64-bit of course.

I agree nice play to fly

5 hours ago, ikbenik said:

Pleasant journey to follow and the airport Anacortes shows really fine.

 

Glad you liked it

[SP2472 2,425]

Absolutely beautiful pictorial, loving the scenery and angles!

Darryl  

[ryanbatc 13,233]

On 3/4/2024 at 10:08 AM, SP2472 said:

Absolutely beautiful pictorial, loving the scenery and angles!

Darryl  

Thank you!  It's easy to take pics of this beautiful area.

[Tim-HH 628]

Amazing pictures! It's been too long since I've flown in that area. Time to change that. Thanks a lot for all these great flying reports 😃

[P_7878 6,982]

A most beautiful and well-rounded collection of pictures out of the PNW, Ryan...

We have surely come a long way from the first release of PNW by Orbx...decades ago ....

Thanks for sharing...!

[andy1252 4,168]

Lovely stuff Ryan. Orbx's PNW and all its various airports were my first real bunch of addons when I got into all this about ten years ago. Maybe if I'd realised back then what I'd end up spending on all this stuff .  .  . <grin>

[bernd1151 6,194]

Great set of screenshots, Ryan ! 

11 hours ago, andy1252 said:

Maybe if I'd realised back then what I'd end up spending on all this stuff .  .  . <grin>

You are not alone, Andy. We have a nice saying for this in Germany: it's a hobby and hobbies don't cost you anything 🙂