AWCEO M7 20251114 AER003 PAGG PANA 102

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AWCEO M7 20251114 AER003 PAGG PANA 102 - JoaoPaz - 11-17-2025

Stranded at Kipnuk!

[Image: VSL-M-7-235-2025-11-17-14-47-31.png]

RE: AWCEO M7 20251114 AER003 PAGG PANA 000 - Huskydude - 11-17-2025

JP,

Hope you brought your parka and snow gear... Keep warm.

RE: AWCEO M7 20251114 AER003 PAGG PANA 000 - JoaoPaz - 11-17-2025

(11-17-2025, 08:13 PM)Huskydude Wrote: JP,

Hope you brought your parka and snow gear... Keep warm.

Thank you, Tim!

The weather "cleared" a bit later in the day and I was able to finish my flight Wink

Will post here tomorrow...
In the meantime this happened Big Grin

https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/339065-v123-flight-started-on-windows-finished-on-linux/#comment-2970297

RE: AWCEO M7 20251114 AER003 PAGG PANA 000 - Huskydude - 11-18-2025

Awesome!!

RE: AWCEO M7 20251114 AER003 PAGG PANA 000 - JoaoPaz - 11-18-2025

AWCEO M7 20251117 AER003 PAKI PANA 102
Kipnuk (PAKI) → Napakiak (PANA)
Aircraft: Maule M7-235B (Recon-configured)
Departure: 13:00 AKST
Flight Time: 62 minutes

Third reconnaissance leg; lift off from Kipnuk at 13:00, just as the weather finally began to open.
After a morning spent shrouded with dense clouds, fog and snow, the improvement was welcome!I had enough clarity to resume proper visual surveying along the coast.

Climbing out of PAKI, I held to a low cruise profile to continue photographing flood lines, shoreline erosion, and damaged access routes. With the light now more stable and the air calmer, the images came out sharper and more consistent than earlier in the day. The modular recon kit — handheld cameras, GPS logger and the small drone pack — proved its value once again, giving flexibility without weighing down the aircraft.

The leg to Napakiak is short on paper, but today’s slow, multiple passes and repeated turns added up to a full hour in the air. Every loop revealed something new: debris fields pushed inland, frozen channels where they shouldn’t be, and several routes still cut off by standing water.

Arrival into PANA was uneventful, with visibility improving steadily as I approached the river. Another segment complete!