MFC0006 Short Fields-Glacier Region-BT67, DC3, C46, C47
Description: |
Every student who has spent more than 20 hours flying an airplane has received some instruction in short- and soft-field landings. It's part of the private pilot tradition, as well as a required training subject. Of course, few instructors—and even fewer of their students—have ever actually landed on a runway either shorter than 1,500 feet, or with six inches of snow, mud, or water standing on it.
The soft/short-field thing is a training exercise that's fun to do—and it will pay off if the skills are ever needed in a real-life situation. The difference between practice and real in the short/soft-field game is that in the real world there is something at stake other than the disappointment of rolling past a specific runway light, or not turning off before passing a designated intersection.
When it's actually a short or soft field, the ante is pretty high—you're putting your airplane and maybe your neck on the line. For that reason, we're going to develop some guidelines that can be used to get you in and out with a minimum of hassle and risk. They'll work in the sort-of-short/soft-field situations that we're likely to see.
This trip takes us into the Alaskan Glacier Region: landing and taking off from some of the shorter fields in this rugged terrain.
Note Some airports are defaults but others are RTMM fields so you will require the RTMM scenery to be able to see these strips.
A few of these strips are a real challenge especially in the designated aircraft for this excursion: The Basler BT67, Douglas DC-3 or the Douglas C-47 Skytrain.
Low and slow for scenic viewing still applies in this RTMM scenery filled excursion but some of the landings are extremely difficult in this aircraft. Find the ideal approach to be able to safely land.
A tour download for this excursion is available in the download section which contains the all the tour details, sky vector map links as well as the award for completion. Make sure you obtain the tour download for all of the tour specifics.
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Start Date: | 13.03.2018 |
Allowed Aircraft Types: | @SEL, BT67, C46, C47, H530 |
Tour Legs
Leg |
Departure |
Arrival |
Duration |
Details |
1 |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
P04B |
Navmans Retreat (Bradfield River) |
00:40:00 |
N/A |
2 |
P04B |
Navmans Retreat (Bradfield River) |
CAB5 |
Bronson Creek Snip Mine |
00:30:00 |
N/A |
3 |
CAB5 |
Bronson Creek Snip Mine |
PF06 |
Bowser Lake Airstrip |
00:40:00 |
N/A |
4 |
PF06 |
Bowser Lake Airstrip |
CBU2 |
Iskut Village |
00:40:00 |
N/A |
5 |
CBU2 |
Iskut Village |
CBM5 |
Telegraph Creek |
00:45:00 |
N/A |
6 |
CBM5 |
Telegraph Creek |
TF20 |
Gilbert Bay Airfield |
01:00:00 |
N/A |
7 |
TF20 |
Gilbert Bay Airfield |
PAJN |
Juneau Intl |
00:00:00 |
N/A |
8 |
PAJN |
Juneau Intl |
PAHN |
Haines |
00:45:00 |
N/A |
9 |
PAHN |
Haines |
PAGY |
Skagway |
00:00:00 |
N/A |
10 |
PAGY |
Skagway |
PAYA |
Yakutat |
01:00:00 |
N/A |
11 |
PAYA |
Yakutat |
PAWL |
Wood Lake Research Camp |
01:00:00 |
N/A |
12 |
PAWL |
Wood Lake Research Camp |
PAGS |
Gustavus |
00:20:00 |
N/A |
13 |
PAGS |
Gustavus |
PAOH |
Hoonah |
00:20:00 |
N/A |
14 |
PAOH |
Hoonah |
PASI |
Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport |
00:50:00 |
N/A |
15 |
PASI |
Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport |
PAFE |
Kake |
00:50:00 |
N/A |
16 |
PAFE |
Kake |
PAPG |
Petersburg James A Johnson |
00:20:00 |
N/A |
17 |
PAPG |
Petersburg James A Johnson |
PAWG |
Wrangell |
00:20:00 |
N/A |
18 |
PAWG |
Wrangell |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
00:45:00 |
N/A |
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Pilots
Pilot |
Current Position |
On Tour since |
Aircraft |
MFC0001 |
Henry Kirk |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
18.08.2018 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0002 |
Norm Richards |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
30.03.2018 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0003 |
Doug Linn |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
23.03.2018 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0004 |
Reiner Test |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
01.06.2018 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0005 |
John Cox |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
18.04.2018 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0006 |
Jaime Gonzalez |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
01.12.2018 |
DOUGLAS DC-3 |
MFC0010 |
James Smith |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
09.04.2018 |
DOUGLAS DC-3 |
MFC0011 |
Roger Triplett |
P04B |
Navmans Retreat (Bradfield River) |
18.11.2018 |
DOUGLAS DC-3 |
MFC0013 |
Ruberto Stutzer |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
02.05.2018 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0016 |
John Dean |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
20.08.2018 |
BASLER BT67 |
MFC0017 |
Jeff Greene |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
05.09.2018 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0019 |
Jim Ryan |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
04.11.2018 |
BASLER BT67 |
MFC0020 |
Steve Stevens |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
26.05.2018 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0025 |
Martin Madera |
PAWL |
Wood Lake Research Camp |
16.07.2018 |
DOUGLAS DC-3 |
MFC0029 |
Brad Allen |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
12.04.2018 |
DOUGLAS DC-3 |
MFC0032 |
Stefan Ulrich |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
22.02.2020 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0033 |
Peter Woodward |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
17.11.2018 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0038 |
Vincent Kaczmarski |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
25.09.2018 |
DOUGLAS DC-3 |
MFC0045 |
Simon Dix |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
12.09.2018 |
BASLER BT67 |
MFC0052 |
Rob White |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
21.09.2018 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0057 |
Jerry Stanbrough |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
19.04.2019 |
CURTISS C-46 |
MFC0059 |
Igor Doksas |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
14.08.2018 |
DOUGLAS DC-3 |
MFC0061 |
Al Trump |
PAFE |
Kake |
06.11.2018 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0071 |
Buddy Nix |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
14.12.2018 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0077 |
Steve Canham |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
15.01.2019 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0079 |
Greg Gordon |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
02.06.2019 |
BASLER BT67 |
MFC0081 |
William Schneider |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
21.07.2019 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0082 |
Michel Geneste |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
05.01.2019 |
BASLER BT67 |
MFC0083 |
Alan Goodrich |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
11.04.2019 |
DOUGLAS DC-3 |
MFC0084 |
Thomas Menzel |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
10.01.2019 |
BASLER BT67 |
MFC0085 |
Georg Werderitsch |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
20.02.2019 |
BASLER BT67 |
MFC0091 |
Rod Burgess |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
19.05.2019 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0096 |
Karl Klotz |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
12.04.2019 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0102 |
Raouf Rizk |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
31.01.2020 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0105 |
William Butler |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
03.09.2019 |
CURTISS C-46 |
MFC0114 |
Robert Heitzman |
CBU2 |
Iskut Village |
11.12.2019 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0117 |
Gerald Limpert |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
06.04.2020 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0118 |
Bill Kunzler |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
30.03.2020 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0120 |
Harry Yang |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
30.03.2020 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0127 |
Carmelo Bernaola |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
25.05.2020 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0131 |
Keith Filby |
P04B |
Navmans Retreat (Bradfield River) |
24.08.2020 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0143 |
Jose Luis Fernandez De Castro |
CAB5 |
Bronson Creek Snip Mine |
18.09.2023 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0157 |
Jeremy Oreskovich |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
28.01.2022 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0169 |
Floyd Gibson |
PAFE |
Kake |
29.08.2023 |
BASLER BT67 |
MFC0189 |
Chris Grubb |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
25.08.2023 |
DOUGLAS C-47 |
MFC0218 |
Kalle Jaeck |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
08.12.2022 |
CURTISS C-46 |
MFC0225 |
Raymond Briere |
PF20 |
Mistys Place |
19.12.2022 |
BASLER BT67 |