Shaky Jakes Adv. Leg 4

[kbr]

On the next leg of this flight, I decided to fly inland just a little to visit Rivers Inlet (YRN.) This area is not much out of the way and well worth the detour for the lovely river scenery.


Here is my flight plan. Starting from Port Hardy, my plan was to fly northward to Goose Bay, then follow the river to Rivers Inlet.


Today in the Vancouver Island area the weather was actualy quite nice. There was a lot of turbulence that made level flying a little difficult.

Taking off from Port Hardy and bidding farewell to Vancouver Island.


Once of the nice things about flying the Inner Passage, is that not only do you have the beautiful scenery, but there are plenty of ships on the passage as well. I was surprised to spot this vintage vessel though.






More ships. (Though this kind of looks like an accident in the making.)


Approaching Goose Bay.


Turning into the river.




I decided to land on the water. The water turned out to be quite rough. I decided to beach my plane in the soft muddy sand until the water calmed down some.






I'll have to check my floats and make sure I didn't damage them, but damage to the floats seemed preferable to my plane being tipped over in that freezing water. ;D

(By the way, Xplane really does simulate rough water. I was starting to feel a little sick by the time I got my plane out of the water. I better make a point of checking the water condition if I intend to land on it. ;D )

[bhk]

kbr said:

On the next leg of this flight, I decided to fly inland just a little to visit Rivers Inlet (YRN.) This area is not much out of the way and well worth the detour for the lovely river scenery.....

Sorry to read that you were sea-sick, Kevin.

What a lovely part of the world is B.C. I'd love to see it in real life.

Neither FSX nor FS9/GW3 include the YRN airstrip, Kevin.
I did a search on avsim and found a small package for FS9 that just happened to include that 'strip (although it is referred to as WFN) and a couple of others.

So this time I used GW3 instead of FSX and prepped the Trike amphib at Port Hardy, checked the met report and then headed off at about 2:40 PM.

Here's the route, from FSNavigator..........



An overcasty sort of afternoon, which became a little thicker as I headed across the water..........



A little aeroplane in a lot of air-space!



Turning up the inlet from the open sea.............



Cruising along, the lovely sound of the engine in the background, and Acker Bilk playing "Beyond The Sea" on the radio. Beautiful! (You had to be there. )



The clouds and mistiness is clearing and the expanse of the fjord opens up.............



There's that tiny 'plane again, dwarfed by the majesty of nature.



Well, the 'strip is exactly where the man said it would be.



Approach....and this airstrip isn't maintained because I see some undergrowth growing on its sandy surface!!



Down safely, aircraft secured and all ready for a relaxing evening.....maybe a line dropped into the water for some fresh seafood for dinner.



Thanks for the route, Kevin.
I'm enjoying this tour.

Bruce

[kbr]

bhk said:

Neither FSX nor FS9/GW3 include the YRN airstrip, Kevin.
I did a search on avsim and found a small package for FS9 that just happened to include that 'strip (although it is referred to as WFN) and a couple of others.

Nice pictures, Bruce. It hadn't even accord to me that it wouldn't be available in FS. Glad you found an addon of it. Until recently, I hadn't even been aware of Rivers Inlet myself and in past trips through here had always just flown on by. Of all the maps I have of this area (and I have many, both of digital and paper form,) I was only able to find the place listed on two of them, one was the Vancouver Aerial Chart and the other was my North America Road Atlas. Even in my flight planner, I had to create a user waypoint for it. But I love hunting for little easily missed places.

On the aerial chart it's listed as CAU8. ;D



But in Xplane and on World Airport Codes (where I like go for my airport data) it's listed as YRN. Maybe the info on my aerial chart's outdated. ;D
www.world-airport-codes.com/canada/rivers-inlet-6313.html

[bhk]

Kevin,
That's interesting.
I wonder if the guy who created the little package got the code wrong?

Bruce

[Slide]

Thanks for this brilliant post, Messieurs! I find this most interesting, as I like flying in this area, too.
Nice Nav-tools you have!
It is a pleasure to watch and compare the landscape in your different sims.
Will you make it up to Juneau, Kevin? ;D

[kbr]

slide said:

Thanks for this brilliant post, Messieurs! I find this most interesting, as I like flying in this area, too.
Nice Nav-tools you have!
It is a pleasure to watch and compare the landscape in your different sims.
Will you make it up to Juneau, Kevin? ;D

Thanks. Reaching Juneau is the plan.

I'm hoping to do the next leg tonight. I have it planned out, but haven't gotten to flying it yet.

The flight planner I'm using is, 'Golden Eagle Flight Prep' www.flightprep.com/