What is that weird glow?
This week we've been doing two flights daily to the Seattle area. One in the morning in the 1900 to the Sea - Tac airport, and one afternoon flight in the Navajo to the Boeing Field airport. In the back we're carrying some interesting cargo, radioactive isotopes created at the Triumf facility at UBC in Vancouver. We get them to Seattle where they meet connection flights that take them to cancer treatment facilities all over the United States. It's an interesting flight. The pre-flight work is a little busier as the dispatchers and pilots need to file reports with US customs and Canadian customs, as well as accepting the cargo and making sure the dangerous goods paperwork is all in order. The flight itself is pretty quick and easy. In the 1900, we're off Vancouver to join the JAWBN 9 arrival into SeaTac. We're on the runway in Seattle in about 30 minutes. After the turnaround, we're headed to the Paine VOR to join the ACORD or GRIZZ arrival into Vancouver. In the Navajo, we've been down around 5000' flying south, over Puget Sound, towards the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, to join the localizer onto 13R at Boeing Field. Coming home, we usually get vectors to join the 140 degree radial off the Vancouver VOR, taking us over pretty much the same route we took coming down. So far, the weather has cooperated and the flights have been gorgeous. Looks like today will likely be the same (knock on wood)....
1 comment:
"What's that weird glow?"
I thought you were referring to that strange bright thing in the sky, that night cargo pilots don't get to see much of in the winter.
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