Second Leg: Second Attempt
This flight from KBFI (Boeing Field) to PANC (Anchorage) went much better this time.The flight was about 1200 nm.
I was better prepared this time: I actually checked the weather reports beforehand. Sky was scattered with clouds but we had overall a pretty good visibility.
Bye bye Seattle!
I flew over British Colombia and its gorgeous mountains. It was quite a sight.
I reached FL360 without problems and started my descent as I crossed the Alaska shoreline. The sun was beginning to fall below the horizon.
I ran into a couple of issues with my VNAV profile since it would stick me to a level altitude to prevent me from smashing myself in mountains covered in clouds. I flew part of the descent manually and eventually reached PANC. I couldn’t quite catch the ILS for runway 7L as I initially planned, so I did a manual approach.
I had to go around the first time since my glide slope was too high. After lining up a second time, I could land it without much problem.
Second leg complete!