PIREP Christian - Transfer to Anchorage.

Hey Snowboss,

departed White Mountain at 10:10 and first headed for the UNK VOR.
This way I was able to make use of the autopilot in this great Bell 412, by tracking a VOR. So I headed the 101 radial to UNK and as I arrived there I flew the 150 radial to Anvik. Prior to Anvik I switched frequencies and selected 117.20 for the SQA VOR and as I saw, that I was in range I headed for this. Shortly after this I realized that I left out ANI NDB, but I was flying VFR, so this doesn't matter I think. Enroute I started to descend, first to 8500 feet out of 12500 and as I reached Beluga I descended to about 1200 feet over Cook Inlet. By this time it was a good time (in real) for my evening meal and I thought of landing at Beluga and have a rest there, because my GPS was telling me I will reach Anchorage in about 50 minutes. Searching the Internet about were probably to have a bite to eat I discovered, that Beluga only has a population of nearly 40 people - well, I thought to myself, that they probably don't have a diner or something similar and as me not wanting to invite myself to some of the residents I continued further on and thought about turning right to Tyonek, so I did a search on the Internet again, but I didn't find anything useful, so I kept heading towards Anchorage and by this I have to fly for 57 minutes. Well, ok I thought, this might have been caused by the lower altitude, but as I had another look at the GPS map I thought to myself: There must be something wrong! And it was! I didn't pass Sparrevohn close enough to let the GPS switch to the next waypoint: ANC VOR! So it was logical that the distance and the time was increasing. Ok, now about really near to Anchorage and flying in
fog with 1/4th miles visibility I contacted Anchorage tower and requested landing clearance, which was denied, because I was still flying VFR (hopefully the FAA doesn't read this ). I was almost straight in to runways 07L/R so I continued, although RWY 14 was in use. I used the zoomed in GPS map for reference and so I found the airport and came in right side of RWY 07R and so I descended to a
hover taxi altitude and moved over to our ramp. The last part of the flight was the most challenging one and was flown by hand of course and I did it real good. LOL
Arrival was at 13:38 after a flying time of 03:28. Don't ask me how much fuel this chopper uses. I think I can almost fly back to Nome without refuelling! The same situation in the summertime and I would have refuelled at every airfield with fuel available. The air file is temperature sensitive - probably at -50°C it will start to produce fuel - who knows. LOL

Christian