PIREP Bookie: Food 4

NIce to get an assignment. Now we know the race is coming on. Flying out was smooth with a slight tailwind. About halfway there I realized I hadn't landed on the frozen river before and wondered how it would be. Well, it was a smooth as glasss, but my
tires just didn't want to stop! I had to back taxi quite a way to get back to the checkpoint.

Takeoff was some better with one notch of flap I was in the air pronto and headed back to the Cargo headquarters, this leg at 3500. Not long after leaving Skwentna, two Air Force F-15 Eagles flashed by at treetop level headed for the town! Exciting stuff. They climbed to 10000 ft+ and crossed over the mountains headed toward McGrath, last I heard. I was cleared to land on RWY 6L visual and after that cleared to the cargo area.


Flight : Food 4
Date : 2007/2/15
Name : Bookie Westbrook
Callsign: BookieW
TCA# : 2609
# Aboard: 2 plus 35 food bags
VFR/IFR : VFR
Aircraft: Twin Beech
Depart. : Anchorage Cargo
Destin. : Anchorage Cargo
Dep.time: 08:30
Enroute : 01:00
Route1 : PANC-direct-PASW sort of
Route2 : Skewentna direct PANC
Speed : 145
Altitude: 4500