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Short Era 1960 Commuter Flight From Calgary To Edmonton


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#1 Aharon

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Posted 13 May 2016 - 12:35 PM

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a nice simple era 1960 commuter flight from CYYC Calgary International Airport located 11 miles northeast of downtown Calgary to CYEG Edmonton International Airport located 14 miles southwest of downtown Edmonton

Passengers boarding the plane

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Pushback being delayed for 15 minutes due to some emergency in another plane

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Starting engines!

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Taxiing to short of runway 16

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Entering into taxiway J to continue taxiing to short of runway 16

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Entering into runway 16 for take off

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Airborne on climb to FL150

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Making left turn toward north with background view of downtown Calgary and its river called Bow River where you can see Calgary Tower, two red buildings called Suncor Energy Centre, Hyatt Regency Calgary hotel building in front of two red buildings, and building on left side of two red buildings is called Fifth Avenue office building but I could not identify five more buildings on left side.

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Passing waters of Glenmore Reservoir in southwest Calgary

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Still climbing to FL150 with background view of entire city of Calgary

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Making few adjust turns with nice background view of Banff mountains

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Now cruising at FL150

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Making more adjustment turn

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Passing CEX3 Wetaskiwin Regional Airport with its famous Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame building located within the city of Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada

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Passing Coal Lake which is actually glacial meltwater channel from the last ice age

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On final runway approach to runway 30

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Don't you love sunset landing?

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Seconds before touchdown

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TOUCHDOWN

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Don't you love snow blowing during touchdown?

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Exiting from runway to taxiway to gate

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Arrived at gate

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Passengers are having hard time getting off from seats with such amazing sunset view

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Thank you for viewing!! Stay tuned for next exciting flight.

Regards,

Aharon


#2 darrenvox

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Posted 17 May 2016 - 10:49 AM

nice screenies!!