PRB's CCAA DC-2 Thing

Taking off for Leg 9 (SKPS - SEQU)
T/O weight: 17435
Fuel: 765
Cargo: 4000
 
Made it to SEQU, whoohoo!
Fuel Used: 371 LBS
Flight Time: 00:58:18
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Altitude ceiling was a bit of an issue with this leg, only in that I had to choose which side of the big mountain to zig around. I chose left, which allowed me to use the NDB station MJS as a turn point to line up with runway 35 anyway, which took me over the city on final. Very cool. Kodaks: 1) Wierd mountains they have down here south of the E-quater... 2) Final appraoch to SEQU over the houses. Is that a sweet approach or what? I even had the wheels down... This plane is fun as heck. I love the fuel booster pumps, which you have to turn on before switching tanks (or bad things happen). When you turn them on you get a satisfying whiny electric motor noise!
 
Taking off for leg 10 (SEQU-SERB)
T/O WT: 17435
Fuel: 765
Cargo: 4000
 
Made it to SERB.
Flight Time: 00:44:17
Fuel Used: 268.
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A fun-filled flight to SERB (Rio-La-Bamba). I knew there were several tallish volcanoes to avoid along this route, if I wanted to stay below the 15,000 foot cieling. There were enough clouds along the way to cause some concern. Concern that I wasn't headed for a granite wall, for example. In the end all ended well. I love this airport, with the road crossing the runway, like Gibralter! Kodaks show the spectacular and vast mountainous scenery along the central Ecuador Corridor.

 
After a cuppa joe and a sandwich, we're back on the flight deck. No rest for the weary.

SPJB - SPHZ
Fuel: 765 LBS
Cargo: 4000 LBS
T/O WT: 17435 LBS.
 
Made it safe to SPHZ. It's getting interesting now. I couldn't fly a direct route to SPHZ. That was obvious as soon as I took off from SPJB and saw the white tipped mountains in the direction I wanted to go. A slightly west of track plan seemed to look promising, but I was almost to the coast before I saw what looked like a low enough valley/pass, or whatever, that would, if it didn't end up in a giant granite wall, get me where I needed to go. It did. Got lucky. Fun landing too. I was too high to do a straight in to 16, so we flew over the field to setup for a 34 approach. Went a ways south, descending. Popped over a hill, pulled the yoke against the seat, bringing the Douglas down to gear speed, dropped em wheels, pushed the nose over, went around the hill, turning, dropped the flaps, lined up, bam, just like Gann! :icon_lol:

Fuel used: 316 LBS
Flight Time: 00:55:32
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Made it to SPNC. That was an interesting flight. Had to fly south down the valley for quite a ways before I found a way through the mounatins east towards SPNC. Then upon reaching the destination, I couldn't decide which way made for a safer descent into the valley, and which runway seemed better. Finally went north to land on 25. Worked out ok. Pics show the DC-2 making her way through Breakheart Pass, then final approach to SPNC. Took me an hour to cover 89 miles. Good grief!

Flight Time: 00:58:57
Fuel used: 293.
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Made it down to the coast at SPLP. Fun flight. I was going to zig south until I found hills low enough to get over, but at the last moment I saw what looked like a sweet pass right through, headed north-west-ish. Lucky for me it worked. Then on the other side of the hills there was weather, which is to be expected on the "weather-side" of a giant huge mountain range. I didn't want to let down too soon on account of I couldn't actually see the granite anymore (STENDECK!) At some point I saw I was over the ocean. Figured it was safe to let down, then! Had a heck of a time finding the airport in the coastal fog, too.

Fuel used: 263
Flight Time: 00:51:56
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