Upcoming events in US.

[Omar Campanalunga]

Wednesday, April 15, 2020 - 22:00 to Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 01:00



Come out to the great Pacific Northwest with this VFR flight through the Columbia River Gorge! In this event, you will depart out of KPDX starting at 5:00 pm PDT (1700PDT, 2359z), fly through the gorge until Columbia Gorge Regional/The Dalles (KDLS)/Klickitat VOR (LTJ) then make a Southbound turn towards Roberts Field (KRDM/Redmond)/Deschutes VOR (DSD) anytime until 8:00 pm PDT (2000PDT, 0300z).

If you would like to fly this route as IFR (or if the weather is not good on the day of...) the routing will be as follows: BTG V112 LTJ V25 DSD. The routing through the gorge will give you between a 1 hour to 1.5-hour flight.

Seattle ARTCC is excited to be hosting this VFR event, and we can't wait to watch the sunset with you on April 15th!

More info in our chat Discord.

[Theodore Martin]

This was an interesting event and had a larger turnout than I expected. It was very different for me to fly VFR on VATSIM. Here are a few pics I took.

Lots of VFR traffic leaving KPDX

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From the cockpit, couple of other a/c I'm flying close formation with....

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Nice scenery as we fly...

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Flying down in the gorge (not sure that house should be there)

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[Omar Campanalunga]

Nice shots, thanks Ted!

[Michael Blakely]

That's a cool idea.