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)

Untitled-2 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

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

Very nice series of photos Ryan!

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.

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

 

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

Absolutely beautiful pictorial, loving the scenery and angles!

Darryl  

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.

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 😃

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...!

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>

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 🙂