Simviation Forum - Sunset, way up north...

Nov 11^th, 2009 at 9:22pm

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... this was an Anchorage-Frankfurt flight. It was FREEZING. -4C at take-off, got down to -80 at FL300 above the arctic pole. The sunset was sweeping down on the horizon, but because of the high latitude, I got to see both the sunset and the sunrise in the horizon

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Oh, and at this point, I lost 1 engine Grin

. Figured there wasn't anywhere to land, and I still made it to Frankfurt. Oh well.

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Reply #1 - Nov 11^th, 2009 at 10:20pm

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It's ok, you still had 3 engines going strong... Grin

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Reply #2 - Nov 11^th, 2009 at 10:59pm

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#1 =

The mind is like a parachute...it only works when it's open.

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Reply #3 - Nov 12^th, 2009 at 2:17am

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If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #4 - Nov 12^th, 2009 at 2:29am

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A rather nice set. I love the clouds over the mountains. Wink

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Reply #5 - Nov 12^th, 2009 at 3:24pm

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Qantas... Now Alaska's national carrier Wink

That's a high rate of climb in #1 - sure the engines were working hard

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Reply #6 - Nov 12^th, 2009 at 8:58pm

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Hate to be a pain in the donkey but, if that's sunset in number one, the polar route to Europe is the other direction

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Reply #7 - Nov 12^th, 2009 at 9:50pm

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Frequent Flyer wrote on Nov 12^th, 2009 at 3:24pm:

That's a high rate of climb in #1 - sure the engines were working hard

The passengers didn't mind.

olderndirt wrote on Nov 12^th, 2009 at 8:58pm:

Hate to be a pain in the donkey but, if that's sunset in number one, the polar route to Europe is the other direction

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Okay, fine, it might have been sunrise. But the sun then set within like a few hours, and it never really got bright, so whatever. "Sundown." How's that? Wink

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Reply #8 - Nov 13^th, 2009 at 12:02am

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love the shots!!

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Reply #9 - Nov 13^th, 2009 at 8:51am