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Alaska Trip
- Thread starter Frank
- Start date
Prentiss, MS
- Aircraft Year
- 1977
- Aircraft Type
- Super Commander
- Reg Number
- N4959W
- Serial Number
- 14279
Re: Alaska Trip
Frank it was a trip of a life time. I will be back but will be a couple of years though.
Frank it was a trip of a life time. I will be back but will be a couple of years though.
Re: Alaska Trip
Steve, What is your schedule like? It is really worth considering. If I get to Anchorage I would like to go to the end of the haul road. The only place I know of that has fuel is Wiseman and I am not sure I like the idea of the gravel stuff of there.
I don't know if a round trip can be made from Fairbanks. One thing about it - you need night currency that far north.
Frank
Steve, What is your schedule like? It is really worth considering. If I get to Anchorage I would like to go to the end of the haul road. The only place I know of that has fuel is Wiseman and I am not sure I like the idea of the gravel stuff of there.
I don't know if a round trip can be made from Fairbanks. One thing about it - you need night currency that far north.
Frank
Nr. Albany, GA
- Aircraft Year
- 1974
- Aircraft Type
- 112 Hot Shot
- Reg Number
- N1182J
- Serial Number
- 155
Re: Alaska Trip
I would be glad to be your guide, for a modest payment. I would book the hotels and you pay for them. It WAS a great trip.
Life is a barrel of fun.
Ken Andrew
I would be glad to be your guide, for a modest payment. I would book the hotels and you pay for them. It WAS a great trip.
Life is a barrel of fun.
Ken Andrew
Steve
New member
Re: Alaska Trip
Frank,
I'm not sure when I might attempt this. I'm retiring in May and have until August to do this. (I start a new job in August). I think it would be a three day trip from DC to Anchorage. I plan on doing it all IFR but haven't worked out a final route. Safe to say it's just an idea right now.
Frank,
I'm not sure when I might attempt this. I'm retiring in May and have until August to do this. (I start a new job in August). I think it would be a three day trip from DC to Anchorage. I plan on doing it all IFR but haven't worked out a final route. Safe to say it's just an idea right now.
N4843W
New member
SE MI
- Aircraft Year
- 1977
- Aircraft Type
- 114
- Reg Number
- N4843W
- Serial Number
- 14173
Re: Alaska Trip
I have reason (paid work) to get to Calgary and Edmonton this summer, and could easilly stop in Grand Prairie, then Achorage and Fairbanks and make sales calls out of it. Fairly flexible schedule wise. I would be interested.
C'mon, Lonnie ... you need to sell Industrial Cleaning services up there, don't you?
I think Ken't offer is intriguing but I think 4 or 5 of us sharing a bed in the Econo-8 Motor Lodge is just going too cheap.
I have reason (paid work) to get to Calgary and Edmonton this summer, and could easilly stop in Grand Prairie, then Achorage and Fairbanks and make sales calls out of it. Fairly flexible schedule wise. I would be interested.
C'mon, Lonnie ... you need to sell Industrial Cleaning services up there, don't you?
I think Ken't offer is intriguing but I think 4 or 5 of us sharing a bed in the Econo-8 Motor Lodge is just going too cheap.
Cincinnati, OH
- Aircraft Year
- 1998
- Aircraft Type
- 114TC/115TC
- Reg Number
- N114AD
- Serial Number
- 20020
Re: Alaska Trip
North end @ Prudhoe or south end @ Valdez? If the north end, it would probably be a long day from Fairbanks. Probably a two day from Anchorage. We did a full day loop from Bettles to Pt Barrow (lunch) to Prudhoe and back to Bettles (good condition but gravel). An amazing loop but also a full day. South end to Valdez is a great single day trip from Anchorage.
Another thing about the Fairbanks-Prudhoe-Fairbanks loop... as the locals will tell you, the trip can be very dangerous approaching Atigun from the south. Cameras and wx reporting don't show just north of pass and once you penetrate the neck of the pass, there won't be enough room to turn around if the wx on the north side is garbage. Having been educated about this from multiple sources up there, we circled around coming north through Anaktuvik (broad pass and relatively shallow grade) and entered Atigun from the north side where we could determine wx before entering the narrow portion. The pass floor/walls littered with broken airplanes and trucks is silent testimony to the potential problem.
Of course, if you go turbo over the Brookies on a nice day w/o ice concerns, then it doesn't matter; but where's the fun in that? If you make the trip, don't neglect to land on the haul road... airplanes have right of way if you care to press the issue w/ an 18-wheeler. ;-)
North end @ Prudhoe or south end @ Valdez? If the north end, it would probably be a long day from Fairbanks. Probably a two day from Anchorage. We did a full day loop from Bettles to Pt Barrow (lunch) to Prudhoe and back to Bettles (good condition but gravel). An amazing loop but also a full day. South end to Valdez is a great single day trip from Anchorage.
Another thing about the Fairbanks-Prudhoe-Fairbanks loop... as the locals will tell you, the trip can be very dangerous approaching Atigun from the south. Cameras and wx reporting don't show just north of pass and once you penetrate the neck of the pass, there won't be enough room to turn around if the wx on the north side is garbage. Having been educated about this from multiple sources up there, we circled around coming north through Anaktuvik (broad pass and relatively shallow grade) and entered Atigun from the north side where we could determine wx before entering the narrow portion. The pass floor/walls littered with broken airplanes and trucks is silent testimony to the potential problem.
Of course, if you go turbo over the Brookies on a nice day w/o ice concerns, then it doesn't matter; but where's the fun in that? If you make the trip, don't neglect to land on the haul road... airplanes have right of way if you care to press the issue w/ an 18-wheeler. ;-)