April 2014 - New Orleans

Four Months!
It's been four months since someone has submitted a feature Flight of the Month on their own and without us "having to make due" with something from our archives! YAY BILL!
I was so excited by the prospect that Bill may actually come through with on original FOTM that I was up at 12:01 AM to check and see what he had offered.

While I've never seen any of Bill's favorite TV shows (not much of a TV-watcher myself) I was anxious to get flying just for the sake of flying something new. How anxious was I? I was up at Midnight:01 to check. By 3 AM I was ready to depart KPDX so I flew a retro-painted Continental EMB-190 to New Orleans (Armstrong). (pict1) (pict2)

Bill suggested that we could take a tour through each city so upon landing I loaded up my favorite amphibian ("Stratojet") and took a low-level tour of N'Orleans including landing on the river. (pict3) (pict4) (pict5) I was disappointed that there weren't any Stearnwheeler Riverboats shown in FSX. (pict6) Finally I landed up at KNEW a little regional airport. (pict7)

At this point I switched into an Eastern EMB-175 and flew non-stop to Baltimore/Washington. (pict8) (pict9) (pict10) Upon my arrival (and after lunch) I took another Stratojet on a low-level tour of Baltimore, (pict11) (pict12) then on the Washington DC, (pict13) (pict14) (pict15) (pict16) then on to New York via Philadelphia (pict17) (pict18)
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Finding nothing to really look at in Atlantic City I returned to Philadelphia and took a land-based tour of this historic US city.

Confession: I have said that when it comes to classic jetliners I prefer to fly the CV-990. That's true, it's in my "FAVORITES" Hangar. But I had such a pleasant flight in the DC-8 last month that I wanted to fly that again so I loaded up one of these classics and headed Trans-Con back to KPDX. (pict29) (pict30) (pict31) Thanks again to Bill for the chance to fly to/through some new locations!