Here's a quick little hop I had done a little while back - a repositioning flight taking our little Honda Jet from Minneapolis to Flying Cloud to grab some pax.

Hope you enjoy!

This unique livery is quite the looker

We're off 30L for a quick vector to the visual 28L at KFCM

In the turn over the cargo ramp

Over Cedar Ave (77) and the Mall of America off to the south side of the field

Over Bush Lake as we are cleared for the visual 28L at FCM, switching to tower

The Flying Cloud tower is scheduled for a new building sometime "soon" - it's one of the oldest in the US - mostly it's distance from the runways makes it difficult for controllers to see which runway aircraft are lined up for...

Parked at Premier Jet - now where are those pax???

 

Nice Shots!🍺

Edited September 10, 20241 yr by Dillon

Ah so colorful, great looking pictorial, and Honda Jet!

Darryl

2 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

This unique livery is quite the looker

You can say that again! 🙂 Great set, Ryan.

Beautiful photos Ryan and I love that livery, where can I find it?

55 minutes ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

Beautiful photos Ryan and I love that livery, where can I find it?

You can find all the lovely MSFS liveries at flightsim.to

This Honda jet livery is here:

https://flightsim.to/file/34316/hjet-n77va-tom-cruise

9 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

You can find all the lovely MSFS liveries at flightsim.to

This Honda jet livery is here:

https://flightsim.to/file/34316/hjet-n77va-tom-cruise

Thanks Ryan.

Superb shots, Ryan. When I saw the first picture, for a moment I thought that's a rw photo 😉

Just beautiful and gorgeous...Ryan...from start to finish...

This is your backyard after all...🙂.... And agree, the Red & Black livery is a looker, for sure...

Didn't know about Flying Cloud...always fond of little (less-known) airports ...thanks for sharing...!

On 9/11/2024 at 11:18 AM, bernd1151 said:

Superb shots, Ryan. When I saw the first picture, for a moment I thought that's a rw photo 😉

Thanks!  High praise!

10 hours ago, P_7878 said:

Just beautiful and gorgeous...Ryan...from start to finish...

This is your backyard after all...🙂.... And agree, the Red & Black livery is a looker, for sure...

Didn't know about Flying Cloud...always fond of little (less-known) airports ...thanks for sharing...!

Yeah there are many smaller airports (typically referred to as "relievers") very close to the large class B primary airports in the US.  KFCM, during covid, was one of the busiest in the entire USA (top 10 for a few days on end when I was working there!)  Most people don't know much about these airports because they rarely handle commercial airliners, but are nearly as busy as larger airports, in terms of operations per hour.  And, many of the operations are flight instruction, which can be some of the most difficult traffic to work as ATC 😉

 

Incredible pictures as always!