Anheuser Busch Brewery Tour Leg #6, Cartersville to Jacksonville in Tileproxy

[Ragtopjohnny]

Anheuser Busch Executive Brewery Inspection Tours Leg 6:

Cartersville, Georgia to Jacksonville, Florida in Tileproxy

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Halfway Home, But Still a Long Way to Go….

(small continuation of the fictional story as well for you…..)

Well my friends, we’re in the half way point of our tour of the Breweries for Anheuser Busch Inspection Tour. We continue on with our little narrative from the last journey, where you remember I made friends with one of the execs from the trip. She showed me some of the more interesting spots of this southern town.

Cartersville was fun – it reminded me of one of those little towns on the older 80s TV Shows parts where you’d expect to see KITT and Michael Knight pulling in somewhere while working on a case, or perhaps the type of town that needed a little spicing up from “The A–Team” coming in to save the day - a nice little place to visit, but as all things are it was time to move on to the next brewery.

The particulars of the flight first of all, for you to all recreate it in Flight Simulator:

Departure: KVPC, Cartersville, Georgia
Arrival: KJAX, Jacksonville International, Florida
Weather: Real World Weather With REX

The Route in Flight Sim Commander:
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My friend that I made on our last journey came through – with some vacation time available, I received a wonderful tour of Cartersville, learned some fascinating facts about the area, and now it was time to move on as always to our next destination on the tour.

On the Ramp, Cartersville
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We said our goodbyes as it was time to start up the Starship. While doing the preflight, I thought about the fun times that we shared in Cartersville.

Cartersville is a city in Bartow County, Georgia, in the United States. It was named after Col. Farish Carter. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 15,925. Growth is evident as the community's population rose to 21,274 as of the 2005 mid-census estimate. Cartersville could become a micropolitan area in the near future.

Holding Short, Cartersville
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Cartersville sits at the junction of Interstate 75, U.S. Highway 411, U.S. Highway 41, Georgia Highway 113, Georgia Highway 61, Georgia Highway 293, and Georgia Highway 20, making it the hub of Northwest Georgia


Take Off, Gear UP!
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Climbing Out over Cartersville RT 113 along the town…
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Panel on Climb Out, Radio Altimeter Active....
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A Wider Angle of Cartersville…
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The Starship can swiftly climb to its cruise altitude. We reached FL240 after a while, and we heading towards Atlanta. It wasn’t long before we reached the Southern City. Did you know that Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the state of Georgia, as well as the urban core of one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States.

Approaching Atlanta!
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[Ragtopjohnny]

With a 2008 estimated population of 537,958. Atlanta is the thirty-third largest city in the United States, and the 28-county Atlanta Metropolitan Area is the eighth largest such region in the United States, and the largest in the Southeastern U.S. with more than 5,376,285 residents. The Atlanta Combined Statistical Area, home to 5,729,304 people, is the tenth largest in the country.

Atlanta Peaking Through the Clouds…
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Considered a top business city and transportation hub, Atlanta is the world headquarters of The Coca-Cola Company, AT&T Mobility, and Delta Air Lines. The surrounding area contains additional corporate headquarters, including Home Depot and UPS. Atlanta has the country's third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies along with Chicago inside city boundaries, and more than 75 percent of the Fortune 1000 companies have a presence in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, which is located seven miles south of downtown Atlanta, is the world's busiest airport and the only major airport to serve the city.


Past Atlanta
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Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County and the fifth location for the seat of government of the state of Georgia. A small portion of the city of Atlanta corporate limits extends into DeKalb County. Residents of the city are known as Atlantans.

Clouding up
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The land constituting the city of Atlanta was once a Native American village called Standing Peachtree. The land that became the Atlanta area was taken from the Cherokee and Creeks by white settlers in 1822, with the first area settlement being Decatur.

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On December 21, 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western and Atlantic Railroad to provide a trade route to the Midwestern United States. Following the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation between 1838 and 1839 the newly depopulated area was opened for the construction of a railroad. The area around the eastern terminus to the line began to develop first, and so the settlement was named "Terminus" in 1837. It was nicknamed Thrasherville after John Thrasher, who built homes and a general store there. By 1842, the settlement had six buildings and 30 residents and the town was renamed "Marthasville". The Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, J. Edgar Thomson, suggested that the area be renamed "Atlantica-Pacifica", which was quickly shortened to "Atlanta". The residents approved, and the town was incorporated as Atlanta on December 29, 1847. By 1854, another railroad connected Atlanta to LaGrange, and the town grew to 9,554 by 1860.

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It was cloudy basically all the way from Georgia to the southern edge of Georgia, for it wouldn’t take long to reach glideslope altitude for Jacksonville. It was clouding up quickly, and getting quite bad, but the weather conditions at Jacksonville were still within safe VFR Limits, so I did not have to request ILS clearance.

Starting Descent, REX’s beautiful REX Clouds Behind Us…
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Descending Towards Jacksonville
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Communities on the way To Jacksonville…
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However, did you know that our Destination, Jacksonville, Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida, and is the county seat of Duval County. Since 1968, as a result of the consolidation of the city and county government, and a corresponding expansion of the city limits to include almost the entire county, Jacksonville is the largest city in land area in the contiguous United States. Consequently the majority of Jacksonville's metropolitan population resides within the city limits, making it the most populous city proper in Florida and the twelfth most populous in the United States. Jacksonville is the principal city in the Greater Jacksonville Metropolitan Area, a region with a population of more than 1,313,228.

Descending over St.John’s River
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Jacksonville is located in the First Coast region of northeast Florida and is centered on the banks of the St. Johns River, about 25 miles (40 km) south of the Georgia border and about 340 miles (547 km) north of Miami. The settlement that became Jacksonville was founded in 1791 as Cowford, so named because of its location at a narrow point in the river where cattle once crossed. In 1822, a year after the United States acquired the colony of Florida from Spain, the city was renamed for Andrew Jackson, the first military governor of the Florida Territory and who would become the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837)

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[Ragtopjohnny]

The Aerial Inspection of the Anheuser Busch Brewery in Jacksonville – The execs joke saying that the employees get scared when they see our Starship fly over….LOL…
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The history of Jacksonville spans hundreds of years. Ossachite, the name given by anthropologists to the first settlement in the area, was made over 6,000 years ago by the Timucua Indians in the vicinity of modern-day downtown Jacksonville.
European explorers first arrived in 1562, when French Huguenot explorer Jean Ribault charted the St. Johns River. René Goulaine de Laudonnière established the first European settlement at Fort Caroline two years later. On September 20, 1565, a Spanish force from the nearby Spanish settlement of St. Augustine attacked Fort Caroline, and killed nearly all the French soldiers defending it. The Spanish renamed it Fort San Mateo. With the destruction of the French forces at Fort Caroline, St. Augustine's position as the most important settlement in Florida was solidified.
Spain ceded Florida to the British in 1763, who then gave control back to Spain in 1783. The first permanent settlement in modern Jacksonville was settled as "Cowford" in 1791, ostensibly named for a narrow point in the St. Johns River where cattlemen could ford their livestock across. The Florida Territory was ceded to the United States in 1821, and in 1822, Jacksonville's current name had come into use. U.S. settlers led by Isaiah D. Hart authored a charter for a town government, which was approved by the Florida Legislative Council on February 9, 1832.
Passing the Brewery
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Is this passing over an old, defunct raceway or airport?
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The Threatening Clouds Above….
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During the American Civil War, Jacksonville was a key supply point for hogs and cattle leaving Florida and aiding the Confederate cause. The city was blockaded by the Union, who gained control of the nearby Fort Clinch and controlled the city and most of the First Coast for the duration of the war. Though no battles were fought in Jacksonville, it changed hands several times, and the city was left in a considerable state of disarray after the war.

Lining up to Land…
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Gear Coming Down
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During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, Jacksonville and nearby St. Augustine became popular winter resorts for the rich and famous. Visitors arrived by steamboat and later by railroad. President Grover Cleveland's attended the Sub-Tropical Exposition in the city on February 22, 1888 during his trip to Florida, which increased the visibility of the state's worthiness as a place for tourism. The city's tourism, however, was dealt major blows in the late 19th century by yellow fever outbreaks and the extension of the Florida East Coast Railway to south Florida. From 1893 to 1938 Jacksonville was the site of the Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home with a nearby cemetery.

Our Custom Panel on Approach
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Jacksonville has a humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa), with mild weather during winters and hot weather during summers. High temperatures average 64 to 91 °F (18 to 33 °C) throughout the year. High heat indices are not uncommon for the summer months in the Jacksonville area. High temperatures can reach the mid and upper 90s with heat indices of 105-115 °F. The highest temperature ever recorded in Jacksonville was 105 °F (41 °C) on July 21, 1942. It is common for thunderstorms to erupt during a typical summer afternoon. These are caused by the rapid heating of the land relative to the water, combined with extremely high humidity. (Sounds good right now with the snow....)

Taxi to Parking...
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During winter, there can be hard freezes during the night. Such cold weather is usually short lived, as the city averages only 15 nights below freezing. The coldest temperature recorded in Jacksonville was 7 °F (−14 °C) on January 21, 1985, a day that still holds the record cold for many locations in the eastern half of the US. Even rarer in Jacksonville than freezing temperatures is snow. When snow does fall, it usually melts upon making contact with the ground. Most residents of Jacksonville can remember accumulated snow on only one occasion—-a thin ground cover that occurred December 23 of 1989.

Jacksonville has suffered less damage from hurricanes than most other east coast cities. The city has only received one direct hit from a hurricane since 1871, although Jacksonville has experienced hurricane or near-hurricane conditions more than a dozen times due to storms passing through the state from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean, or passing to the north or south in the Atlantic and brushing past the area. The strongest effect on Jacksonville was from Hurricane Dora in 1964, the only recorded storm to hit the First Coast with sustained hurricane force winds. The eye crossed St. Augustine with winds that had just barely diminished to 110 mph (180 km/h), making it a strong

On the Ramp, Shut Down, and Everyone Out...
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Category 2 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. Jacksonville also suffered damage from 2008's Tropical Storm Fay which crisscrossed the state, bringing parts of Jacksonville under darkness for four days. Similarly, four years prior to this, Jacksonville was inundated by Hurricane Frances and Hurricane Jeanne, which made landfall south of the area. These tropical cyclones were the costliest indirect hits to Jacksonville. Hurricane Floyd in 1999 caused damage mainly to Jacksonville Beach. During Floyd, the Jacksonville Beach pier was completely destroyed. The rebuilt pier was later heavily damaged by Fay, but not destroyed

I'll really look forward to exploring Jacksonville, and that's before we head off to Dallas, Texas....:)

Have a great night All!

John Thuot II
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[Constinator25]

Stunning shots John. Great post.

[Ragtopjohnny]

Thanks Conner, good hearing from you! :)

John Thuot II
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[adamb]

Stunning TP shots John,great job.:cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:

Adam

[Ragtopjohnny]

Thanks Adam, appreciated my friend!

John Thuot II
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[Ragtopjohnny]

Figured I'd bump this up on more time before it disappears on to the second page....

John Thuot II
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[aircav1970]

Great set John!:D:cool:

[peer01]

Oh yes, a stunning leg again John. :cool::cool: TP runs so well on your rig. Thanks for sharing my friend! :)

[Ragtopjohnny]

Thanks Gary, appreciated Amigo! :)

Thanks Jan, glad you like them my friend - I'm impressed as to how well it does at times, but sometimes, not so well...:o.

John Thuot II
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[bumpkin]

Super post John, lots of interesting info in there:cool::cool::cool::cool:

[Ragtopjohnny]

Thanks Brian, much appreciated! :)

John Thuot II
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[peer01]

<<I'm impressed as to how well it does at times, but sometimes, not so well..>>

I know what you mean John, I wanted to make a nice DC-6 flight today, but "driving" 160 kts it was still on the runway and I ended in a shed far away from the airfield...:eek::confused:

[Ragtopjohnny]

Ouch!!!! At least we have Dave for an aircraft mechanic, he'll be glad to fix them for us...:)

John Thuot II
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[jeh]

Brilliant post John. I always enjoy the facts and commentary along the way. I am going to guess that it was a disused raceway and not airport as round runways seldom work well! (Unless of course you are drunk... and you are of course on a brewery tour.... Perhaps it's a Budweiser airport? LOL)

[Ragtopjohnny]

Thanks for the comments Jeh, much appreciated! :)

Hey, now I like that Jeh - KBUD - now that'd be an interesting Airport! :) :p....

No waiting the 24-48 hours after a drink here before flying - :) :D. And I can also picture the new saying, and remember, drink responsibly and designate a pilot....:)

I guess that was a site NASCAR figured they didn't need at all....

That was good - thanks for the laugh, needed that! :D.

John Thuot II
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[BEWARRE]

Can't go wrong with FSC8!
Go Johnny go! Go! Go Johnny Go! Go go!
Keep up the good work! :D

[Ragtopjohnny]

Thanks Bruce, appreciated my friend - Love FSC8 - that is my 3rd favorite add-on From REX 2.0 and my Go-Flight Gear...:)

When you can copy and paste real plans from Flightaware.com, do real flights that way, it doesn't get better than that....:) :D.

John Thuot II
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[NMLW]

Fine work on that flight John. Sweet pix. :eek::eek::cool:

[Ragtopjohnny]

Thanks Larry, appreciated Amigo! :D

John Thuot II
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