We woke up to a light layer of Spring snow this morning. It's been drizzly and freezing so far this weekend, which caused JB to cancel our IFR practice flight on Friday morning. There's nothing like a little freezing rain, to put the big damper on our plans. K and I had gone out for breakfast at the Original Pancake House, so we took advantage of our unexpected free time together, to run a few errands.
When we got home, I fired up Flight Simulator X, and attempted the Yakutat challenge again. It's the FSX mission where you have a short hop from Burwash, Canada, over the coastal mountain range to Yakutat, Alaska, with an ILS approach at the end, and a few twists thrown into the mix, just for fun.
This time I succeeded in getting the King Air on the ground in one piece, even with a failed vacuum system, the ground ATC radar out of service, the left engine on fire and not producing power, at night in low overcast and snow, and a black bear on the runway. What a great little program, for practicing my flying skills!
We woke up to a light layer of Spring snow this morning. It's been drizzly and freezing so far this weekend, which caused JB to cancel our IFR practice flight on Friday morning. There's nothing like a little freezing rain, to put the big damper on our plans. K and I had gone out for breakfast at the Original Pancake House, so we took advantage of our unexpected free time together, to run a few errands.
When we got home, I fired up Flight Simulator X, and attempted the Yakutat challenge again. It's the FSX mission where you have a short hop from Burwash, Canada, over the coastal mountain range to Yakutat, Alaska, with an ILS approach at the end, and a few twists thrown into the mix, just for fun. 
This time I succeeded in getting the King Air on the ground in one piece, even with a failed vacuum system, the ground ATC radar out of service, the left engine on fire and not producing power, at night in low overcast and snow, and a black bear on the runway. What a great little program, for practicing my flying skills!
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