PRB Ring of Fire Tour, The Second One

Of course, on the very first leg in which I'm even remotely worried about range, I get a 50 knot head wind!
 
Thanks, salt_air. Just a tad frustrated since this is starting to happen more frequently now and I don't know why. Spent some time today defragging and cleaning the registry with CCleaner.
 
You'll get it squared away. Once you get to Anchorage it's all down hill from there.
 
Left Japan behind. No more nav radios until we reach the Kamchatka peninsula, and even then only NDBs. But the weather is nice, and all I have to do is follow the Kuril Islands. That should be easy enough. I think I'll have enough gas, so I went down low to pick up some speed. And I found a tail wind in the process!
 
Made it to Russia. A beautiful day in the North Pacific. I heard there are lots of grizzly bears here.
 
Made it to Adak. I don't know where the heck I thought I was going during the first third of that trip. It's a good thing I was using the VOR station at PASY (about half way to Adak) as a waypoint, or I would have ended up somewhere around the north pole-ish. All's well that ends well I suppose. I landed on runway 5 at Adak. I forgot about runway 5 at Adak... The terrain slopes downward towards the end of the runway such that during the final three or four miles, your wheels are about 25 feet off the ground during your otherwise perfect three degree glide slope!
 
Made it to Prince Rupert (CYPR) in a driving rain storm. 25 knots of wind, waves as tall as trees. Raining so hard I couldn't see the end of the refueling probe.
 
Made it to Whidbey (KNUW). Dang, I'm rusty at night navigation and landing. That was an adventure filled flight. I could make it to the finish line in one more leg, but I need another night landing, so I will stop off at my old stomping grounds at NAS Lemoore (KNLC), in the California Central Valley, before wrapping up this adventure at Edwards.
 
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