Platinum Airways will Shiver in January

Platinum Airways, the Open Skies virtual airline, will have a cool January. Its Destination of the Week series, Shiver, will visit five airports that experience extremely cold temperatures.

As the northern hemisphere prepares for the coldest month in the year, Platinum Airways will be heading for five airports that will make our pilots shiver. The series has a sobering start on New Year’s day with Siberia’s Anadyr Airport (aka Ogolny, UHMA), with an average temperature in January of −23⁰C (−8.7⁰F) and a record low of -47⁰C (-52⁰F). Arguably the largest American airport with extreme winter conditions is Fairbanks, Alaska (PAFA). Our third airport is an acknowledged cold soak test facility for manufacturers including Airbus, Embraer and Sukhoi: Yakutsk Airport (UEEE), with a recorded low of -63⁰C (-81⁰F). From there, we travel to Alert Airport (CYLT), the airport of the northernmost permanently populated place in the world at 82⁰. And we end with the coldest airport of them all: Vostok Station (AT28) at the Vostok research facility in inland Princess Elizabeth Land in Antarctica at the southern Pole of Cold, with a record low temperature of −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F). Don’t despair if you can’t find AT28 in your FS9, FSX or P3D, because we’ll be providing a Platinum Airways made scenery file, and a link to an existing X-Plane scenery.

As per usual, each DOTW comes with official charts for each airfield and links to add-on scenery when available. It concludes with a video selection with real-world approaches, ground traffic and departures.

About Platinum Airways:

Keen to deliver on its mission to keep the fun in the hobby, Platinum Airways is probably the only virtual airline to combine an Open Skies policy, allowing its pilots to fly any mission of their choice with the aircraft of their choice at the time of their choice, with a strategic hub network. The carefully selected hubs, Newark (KEWR), Dallas-Fort Worth (KDFW), Vancouver (CYVR), Perth (YPPH) and Brussels (EBBR), should be attractive to a global membership. In addition, Platinum Airways offers its pilots an often cheeky Destination of the Week, Military and Cargo. Sticking to the KISS principle (Keep It Straight and Simple), Platinum Airways hosts an active forum and a screenshot of the week competition, with the winner providing the main picture on its home page for the next week.

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