olderndirt Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 (edited) A long time ago I worked for the FAA at Yakutat - beautiful spot but wet. Later in the sixties I had improved my lot and worked at Juneau Tower, also wet . This is a freeware C90 with all the trick stuff but before the panel wide monitor screens. This N-S runway is a reminder of WW2 days when PAYA was a fairly busy place. The other one, longer, has the instrument approaches. This is the start of a large glacier area feeding Glacier Bay - a magnet for tourists. The Alsek river below flows out of Canada just a few miles upstream. Back in my day this was a localizer approach to an NDB/Marker Beacon four miles from the runway. No DME yet -used step down fixes from an adjacent VORTAC. This was updated after an major airline crash with heavy life (all) loss. The localizer course was twenty degrees offset (less) from the runway and the drill was - if, at the FAF, you could see the flashers (2 miles) located in the clearing on the peninsula, you could continue and follow lead in lights to the threshold (4miles). Often exciting, one Captain told me it felt like an approach to a carrier deck. Edited August 24 by olderndirt 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 Nice shots, OD, and interesting history. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 5 hours ago, olderndirt said: A long time ago I worked for the FAA at Yakutat - beautiful spot but wet. Later in the sixties I had improved my lot and worked at Juneau Tower, also wet . This is a freeware C90 with all the trick stuff but before the panel wide monitor screens. This N-S runway is a reminder of WW2 days when PAYA was a fairly busy place. The other one, longer, has the instrument approaches. This is the start of a large glacier area feeding Glacier Bay - a magnet for tourists. The Alsek river below flows out of Canada just a few miles upstream. Back in my day this was a localizer approach to an NDB/Marker Beacon four miles from the runway. No DME yet -used step down fixes from an adjacent VORTAC. This was updated after an major airline crash with heavy life (all) loss. The localizer course was twenty degrees offset (less) from the runway and the drill was - if, at the FAF, you could see the flashers (2 miles) located in the clearing on the peninsula, you could continue and follow lead in lights to the threshold (4miles). Often exciting, one Captain told me it felt like an approach to a carrier deck. OD, where did you get the freeware C90? I've looked at all the regular outlets and no luck. Or is this P3D? Sure looks good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olderndirt Posted August 24 Author Share Posted August 24 11 hours ago, Rodger Pettichord said: OD, where did you get the freeware C90? I've looked at all the regular outlets and no luck. Or is this P3D? Sure looks good! It's for XP12 and is in the downloads on xplane.org. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adambar Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 Interesting stuff OD, great shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boetie Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 Not wet this time OD, thanks for sharing this interesting post! Cheers Graeme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wain71 Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 great shots, thanks for posting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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