Today I delivered 11000 lbs of fuel to Unalakleet with the C-130. The take off was calm from RWY 14, we only had to wait for an UPS B747-200F to land and to clear the runway.
The flight was smooth as well and we climbed to 20500 feet for the flight and again our routing was via SQA VOR.
Prior to UNK VOR we turned to a more or less parallel course to PAUN to fly a downwind on RWY 14. We had little crosswind on approach and this time I switched to the first officers view to see the runway and was able to land this big bird with no problems and really soft.
We then taxied to the ramp and rolled back between these two buildings and offload our fuel out of the bulk tanks.
After 50 minutes on the ground it was time to leave again for Anchorage, because I have also a ferry flight on the to do list ;-)
We took off RWY 14 and climbed to 20000 feet and headed back. e started to descend a little bit too late, but we were cleared for an approach to RWY 14 and so it was time to turn around to the left to get on a parallel course to RWY 14 and during this step we descended. I selected the ILS frequency, but obviously there must have been something wrong, because I didn't get a glide slope readout - only the localizer became active, but was also acting very strange. With Anchorage aerodrome covered below clouds it was hard to find and to determine where we are, so we had to rely on the GPS. Once we had the airport in sight we started our approach, but we ended up too far East and were approaching in a 90° angle to the runway, and it was time to decide, whether to go around or not, but somehow I was able to get this bird aligned to the RWY and landed safely to my surprise! We missed the exit by a few feet and so we reversed the props and rolled back to the exit and thereafter back to our ramp, where I could see my Bell 412 see standing in the background of the ramp waiting for me.
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