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Flight
of the Month – January 2003 Flight
Info:
This is a two-leg, regional flight from my own “neck of the
woods.” These flights are
occurring every day, mainly for Business travelers.
These flights are flown by Horizon Air - part of Alaska Airlines,
using the Dash 8 series. I will give you my route info which is at least close
to what I see overhead each day and also very close to the route I took
a few weeks ago when I had to fly south for a business trip.
We are using the weather as it was on the morning of December 23,
2002. Aircraft
Used: Dash8
Q-400 Departure
One Info:
Departing from Medford, Oregon, Rouge Valley International Airport (KMFR).
I selected runway 14 for departure.
I recommend push back at 06:30 AM on a late December morning. Weather
for leg one:
Clouds = 6/8 coverage from 500 to 2,000 ft.
Winds
= None. Visibility
= Under 2,500 ft 1 mile; Above 2,500 ft unlimited. Temps
= Daytime high 49*, Day/Night Variation 20*. Flight
One Info:
After departure and clearance from runway 14 I made a left-hand
turn to intercept the Eugene (EUG) VOR 112.90.
(Heading 354 or so) At
EUG I turned to heading 356* on the V23 Airway.
I followed V23 picking up the Battleground VOR (BTG) 116.60.
Continue heading 356* until DME 20 miles. (My flightplan showed this as the OSWEG Intersection).
Turn left toward the Hillsboro (HI) NDB 306 (which is
roughly 293*) and intercept the 034* Radial to BTG.
(This was my screenshot. I
was a bit early and the sun hadn’t yet peaked around Mt. Hood.
Since I know the area well I cut the turn before HI, turning
toward BTG, dropping to 3,500 ft and heading into the ILS)
Intercept the ILS into runway 10R and, Happy Landings. Departure
Two Info:
Pushback at 08:15 AM and depart KPDX from runway 10R.
Weather
for leg two:
Clouds = 2/8 coverage from 1,500 to 3,000 ft. Winds
= 0, gusts 050* to 3 mph. Visibility
= Under 1,000 ft 3 miles; Above 1,000 ft unlimited. Temps
= Daytime high 45*, Day/Night Variation 20*. Flight
Two Info:
Fly east to the OGUAJ Intersection which is the 054* radial into
the Klickitat (LTJ) VOR 112.30.
LTJ to PDT VOR (114.70) is heading 070*, ‘bout 91 miles. There
is some restricted airspace over Boardman and Umatilla.
If you want to go around that you’ll do the following:
From LTJ turn to 080* on Airway V112.
Continue on 080* heading until you can intercept the 054* radial
into Pendleton (PDT). Intercept
at or about DME 29 miles. Follow
054* into PDT which leaves you a 20* turn to final. My
chart shows 3,500 ft at 10 miles DME. Cross VOR at 2,700 ft. and runway 7 threshold is 3.6 miles
from the VOR with a runway heading of 074*. Ron
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