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Upcoming events in US.

Posted: 04-14-2020 08:15 AM
by Omar Campanalunga
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 - 22:00 to Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 01:00

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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.

Re: Upcoming events in US.

Posted: 04-20-2020 11:58 AM
by 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
Lots of VFR traffic leaving KPDX
Departing KPDX.JPG (174.83 KiB) Viewed 10476 times
From the cockpit, couple of other a/c I'm flying close formation with....
From the cockpit, couple of other a/c I'm flying close formation with....
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Nice scenery as we fly...
Nice scenery as we fly...
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Flying down in the gorge (not sure that house should be there)
Flying down in the gorge (not sure that house should be there)
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Re: Upcoming events in US.

Posted: 04-20-2020 12:52 PM
by Omar Campanalunga
Nice shots, thanks Ted!

Re: Upcoming events in US.

Posted: 04-24-2020 08:30 AM
by Michael Blakely
That's a cool idea.