Stayed the night in Unalakleet at the Brown's Lodge and got up early at around 07:00 for a good breakfast. Then I got to the airport and did the pre flight checks on the Bell 412. And I checked everything twice - who knows...
Found nothing irregular and I checked the weather and it looks like it would be a wonderful day for flying with good visibility and moderate winds along our routing. This time I selected a rather more direct routing via McGrath and further on to Anchorage. I departed Unalakleet at 09:50 during sunrise and flew a heading of about 90° inbound to the MCG VOR climbing to 9500 feet to stay clear of the Alaska Range later and for a better fuel consumption. And I btw found out why I have so different fuel consumptions (probably). If I start with a saved situation the fuel consumption is too low. If I re-select the Bell 412 the fuel consumption is more realistic. Now knowing this I will test it in the future.
The flight itself was rather uneventful.
As soon as I could pick up ANC VOR I turned towards this VOR to shorten the route a little bit. This time I also wasn't experiencing the CTD around Rainy Pass, so I think the summer version did the trick.
As I approached Anchorage Stevens they had Rwy 14 in use, but I crossed if after a MD-11F from UPS had landed and I landed at our cargo building. I headed over to the office and found the door unlocked. I thought to myself, that you might have left in a hurry and also left a mess behind, but then I realized that it must have been a burglary, because I found our petty cash was broke open. I hope there was too much cash in it. I called the police and they said that had been more burglaries in the past on the airport and they have a good feeling to catch them soon. Better it is, that the police catches him/her/them before we do! If not you have a new volunteer for testing your revolutionary new breaking system.
Ok, now I'm cleaning the office from that mess...
Christian
P.S. Flying time would not too bad I think. I almost forgot it over this situation: 02:41
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