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I'm on the road again - Arrived safely in Surgut
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ATWC Part 1
08 June 2011
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It was far from a clear and wonderful summers day in Archangelsk when I finally could get on with my challange.
But before we got on with the story, let me fill you in on what's been going on.
On the planned day for the Archangelsk to Surgut leg disaster struck at my destination when a TU-154 exploded while taxiing to the runway leaving me stuck in Archanglesk with Surgut closed for the remainder of the day. While deeply sadden by the accident I also realized that this was going to mean a lot of trouble for me.
It had been a frustrating task setting up the flights through Russia, and now I would have to go back and cut through all that red tape again to get renewed premissions for the flight. I soon realized that this was going to take a lot of time and effort, and decided to board the first commercial flight back home, and then come back to Archangelsk once everything was sorted...
And here we are, almost six months later
Now, lets get back to the story.
I had managed to loan an almost brand new Airbus A319 from Siberian Airways (S7) for the 935 nm flight to Surgut. The winds were comming in from the west, so we taxied to runway 26 for departure.
The traffic was nonexisting on this rainy day, so it wasn't long before we we're cleared for take-off and our rubber had left the ground
Climbing towards FL310
The clouds stayed with me for quite some time
Finally the cloud cover was behind me and I could enjoy the view of the wilderness
A top down view of my location about half way to surgut.
As I started my descent into Surgut those pesky rainclouds came back
Further down, and the clouds are still with me
Close to what I guess would be a right downwind following the STAR/ILS approach for runway 25
And here ends this PIPREP. For some reason FRAPS gave me no more screenshots during this session, but I got down in one piece.
But before we got on with the story, let me fill you in on what's been going on.
On the planned day for the Archangelsk to Surgut leg disaster struck at my destination when a TU-154 exploded while taxiing to the runway leaving me stuck in Archanglesk with Surgut closed for the remainder of the day. While deeply sadden by the accident I also realized that this was going to mean a lot of trouble for me.
It had been a frustrating task setting up the flights through Russia, and now I would have to go back and cut through all that red tape again to get renewed premissions for the flight. I soon realized that this was going to take a lot of time and effort, and decided to board the first commercial flight back home, and then come back to Archangelsk once everything was sorted...
And here we are, almost six months later
Now, lets get back to the story.
I had managed to loan an almost brand new Airbus A319 from Siberian Airways (S7) for the 935 nm flight to Surgut. The winds were comming in from the west, so we taxied to runway 26 for departure.
The traffic was nonexisting on this rainy day, so it wasn't long before we we're cleared for take-off and our rubber had left the ground
Climbing towards FL310
The clouds stayed with me for quite some time
Finally the cloud cover was behind me and I could enjoy the view of the wilderness
A top down view of my location about half way to surgut.
As I started my descent into Surgut those pesky rainclouds came back
Further down, and the clouds are still with me
Close to what I guess would be a right downwind following the STAR/ILS approach for runway 25
And here ends this PIPREP. For some reason FRAPS gave me no more screenshots during this session, but I got down in one piece.
