Date: 03/13/01
Flight: 999- leg 1
Plane: DC3
Time: 8.4 hrs
Pilot:
BGA030
Have flown
this flight Round the World three times and am doing it again.
Started at
0800 from Tampa International Airport.
Heading NNE,
flew over Ocala- Gainesville off to the right then Craig Field at Jacksonville
off the left wing.
Heading out
over the water as I am flying a direct flight to Baltimore's BWI
Airfield.
Camer
ashore below Charleston then passed over Florence- Raleigh Durham - Richmond
the vectored around the capital.
After a
lunch and refuel break at BWI took off again for Halifax, again direct.
Passed
Dover AFB off the right wing directly over JFK then over the Long Island Sound
to the east side of Connecticut, Rhode Island, southern Massachusetts with
Provincetown off the right wing then open sea to Yarmouth and then the approach
to Halifax.
If you
follow this flight and time frame you will be landing at Halifax after dark
(gets dark earlier up there).
Airport info for Halifax International: ILS
runways for rwy 15 109.1 heading 146, rwy 24 109.9 heading 236. Elev.
477'.
Flight
distances: KTPA - KBWI --733 nm, KBWI - CYHZ -- 677 nm.
Trip
distance to date: 1410 nm, Flight time : 8.4 hrs.
Flight 999 Route
(flight overview)