Leg #3: Yakataga(PACY) to Yakatat(PAYA)
Flight Time: 57 Minutes
Distance: 91 NM
Total Time Flown: 3 Hours 37. Minutes
Total Distance: 321 NM
Well, I got up this morning, anticipating gettin to check out something interesting, and the weather kicks in again. I wanted to go check out Jack's bar(I called it John's earlier) on my way to Yakatat. Well, with ceilings at 4300, and a lot of cliffs in the way, and only 34 gallons of gas, I might be safer just heading off to Yakatat. So I updated my GPS with my new very shortened trip. (the cut to Jacks bar takes about an hour). Well the AWOS said ceilings were at 4500, but I was hitting clouds at 3000, so I dropped my altitude to about 2500 and flew it that way. Made for some good sightseeing of what I could see.
The funny part about Yakatat, is that when I was in flight training, the flight school was having a C172 ferried up from the lower 48. It sounded cool and all, but we get a call a day before the airplanes going to get there. He tells us that on his way to Yakatat, he saw a beach at Yakatat, and he tried to land on it. Needless to say, with his 172 with wheelpants, he sunk in the sand, and smacked the prop. I couldn't help but laugh at him even though our new plane wasn't coming for a number of days now. So $25,000 later, a new prop and a rebuilt engine, he comes in about 2 weeks late. Well I want to find this beach, so on my next leg, I might comb the coastline a little bit just to see if I can find where he landed.
Well, here's some pics from the flight.
Getting ready to depart Yakataga
Off we go
Dumb clouds, always getting in the way...
Flying along and the ceilings are getting lower, and lower
Stayin close to the coast, being the mountains on my left side, with the clouds, are just a CFIT waiting to happen...
I'm goin across Icy Bay, hoping my engine doesn't quit...
I had a chuckle at another lake that looks man-made
On final into Yakatat
A greased -51 fpm landing
Gettin some gas for tomorrow being Yakataga didn't have any...
Gas is got, all tied down, gonna explore a little and we'll see what happens on the next flight.
efrumtheretardedrabbit--your tracker is in the mail, anyone else want it just let me know, if you wanna fly online, I'll see if we can all hook up at once. It would be fun.