engine70 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 I've had the iFly 737 for a few months now (couldn't bring myself to pay the high price for the PMDG), but only have a few flights in it. I've been looking for some flights to do in order to get more comfortable with it, and when I came across a video on Youtube of the Alaska Airlines milk run, I knew it would be a perfect opportunity. I believe the milk run is a pretty well known route in the aviation industry, but if you're not familiar with it the route starts in Seattle, stops at the small Alaskan towns of Ketchikan, Wrangell and Petersburg before making final stops in Juneau and Anchorage. There is also a route that goes in reverse order as well. No better way to get comfortable with a complicated airplane than flying difficult approaches through high terrain! Here is leg one of our trip as we go from Seattle-Tacoma to Ketchikan, Alaska. At nearly two hours long this is the longest leg of the milk run. Taxiing out at Seattle as an American 737 departs in the background heading to JFK Climbing off of 16L. It wasn't as cloudy as I expected, so we had a nice view of Seattle on our climb out Catching one last view of the nice scenery before going above the cloud layer that would be with us during the rest of the flight A rare break in the clouds as we near our cruise altitude The flight deck of the 737 Clouds are still holding strong as we descend into Ketchikan Getting a nice view of the Alaskan scenery as we near the airport Established on the ILS for runway 11, heading for a surprisingly smooth touchdown considering how much I've flown this Welcome to Ketchikan Some company joining us on the ramp. I had my Ultimate Traffic Live going and heard the AI version of Alaska 65 taxiing in Seattle, so that may be our counterpart on the ramp The next three legs are all pretty short, and a few involve difficult approaches, so that will certainly test my ability with the 737. Thanks for viewing! Ryzen 5 3600X | RTX 2060 | 32 GB 3200 G.Skill RAM | 1TB Crucial P1 NVMe M.2 SSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pugilist2 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Super shots of the 737! Looks like a great route to fly. Intel i-9 13900KF @ 6.0 Ghz Cpu, MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X 24GB Videocard, MSI MAG CORELIQUID C360 Water Cooler, MSI Z790 A-PRO WIFI Motherboard, MSI MPG A1000G 1000W Power Supply, G.SKILL 48Gb Ram @76000 MHz DDR5 Ram, MSI SPATIUM M480 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2TB Drive, Windows 11 Pro Ghost Spectre x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Super shots of the 737! Looks like a great route to fly. I agree! Well done! ;) Michael Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAVIDSTRAKA Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Great flight and shots! :pilot: Senior Rookie Bragware: FSX Gold - Acceleration | HP Omen Obelisk Desktop | Intel Core i7 3.2 Ghz |16GB | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 | 1TB HD | 256 GB SSD (Gaming Computer) REX Worldwide Airports HD AS16 + ASCA ORBX Global BASE ORBX Freeware Airports ORBX HD Trees [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 fine work with your 737 flight and pics. of it. A good narrative to go with it as well. :cool: :cool: :) Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engine70 Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 Thanks guys! I’m down the shore (that’s what Philly people call going to the Jersey Shore) for the weekend, but I’m looking forward to finishing the rest of the legs next week. Ryzen 5 3600X | RTX 2060 | 32 GB 3200 G.Skill RAM | 1TB Crucial P1 NVMe M.2 SSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyJohnJohn Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 Nice set! Be careful flying in that Alaskan Triangle, you never know what might happen! Thermaltake Ryzen Gen 9 3900x 12 cores, 4.6 ghz 32 gig of Ram, Liquid Cooled Everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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