Leg 130, Segezha to Syktyvkar, Russia
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It’s about time to switch to flying in the evening/night instead of night/early morning. Today I didn’t see the sun at all. I’m far North and the trip started out in stormy overcast weather. By the time it cleared up the sun was already gone. New years day, new time schedule.
12-30 Segezha ULPS 3:08 AM
12-30 Kem’ UKEA 3:41 AM
12-30 Afrikanda UAFR 4:58 AM
12-30 Monchegorsk Air Base UMOE 5:23 AM
12-30 Murmansk ULMM 5:45 AM Lenin Icebreaker
12-30 Severomorsk-1 Naval Air Base ULAK 5:53 AM
12-30 Shoyna ULBO 7:25 AM
12-30 Chizha UKAE 7:44 AM
12-30 Koyda UKAN 8:07 AM
12-30 65°59’14.08"N 42°07’27.58"E 8:21 AM CTD while accessing Steam, Steam crashed as well, restart
12-30 Last known position 8:28 AM
12-30 65°24’12.31"N 41°27’10.55"E 8:43 AM CTD flying through bad weather, restart
12-30 Last known position 8:50 AM
12-30 Talagi ULAA 9:15 AM
12-30 Novodvinsk UOOD 9:25 AM Virtual vision landing
12-30 Karpogory ULAP 10:21 AM Drone cam landing
12-30 Yemva UUYM 11:40 AM Drone cam landing
12-30 Syktyvkar UUYY 12:02 PM Runway lights!
12-30 Syktyvkar Southwest USYY 12:09 PM Virtual vision landing CTD on End Flight
Flight time 8:47 14 stops
Departing from Kem’, storm ongoing, no visibility from 100 ft up
It’s thick soup, illuminated by the low Northern sun
This is all I can see on the way to Afrikanda
Luckily it clears up a bit, some visibility in between cloud layers now and then
Thinning out slowly, I’m getting away from the storm, blue skies!
Afrikanda airport, beyond the Arctic circle
Monchegorsk Air Base, icy runway (doesn’t seem to affect braking efficiency)
Fist I thought the sun was peeking through, it’s the full moon coming up
Murmansk Airport, so cold
Murmansk at the end of a deep bay off the Barents Sea
Looking the other way, no sun sighting today
Sights in Murmansk include Скульптура Ждущая. Памятник женщине, ждущей своего моряка on the left, meaning Sculpture Waiting. Monument to a woman waiting for her sailor. Very appropriate.
On the right, Alyosha, 35m concrete statue to commemorate Soviet fighters in WWII.
K-141 Kursk, an Oscar II-class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine which sank in the Barents Sea on August 12th 2000 after a faulty Torpedo exploded during an exercise
The cabin is now a Memorial to seamen-submariners who died in peacetime
Lenin Atomic Icebreaker
At its launch in 1957 the icebreaker NS Lenin was both the world’s first nuclear-powered surface ship and the first nuclear-powered civilian vessel. It served from 1959 to 1987, now a museum.
On to Shoyna. It takes a long time to get dark here after not really getting light in the first place.
Crossing the Barents Sea, no ice, which is actually correct
Still no ice over the White Sea, there should be some along the shore at least
Approaching Koyda, cozy inside
I’m not showing pictures of the terrain here, it’s a mess. There is no real coverage this far North and the sim doesn’t know what to do. Here’s an example near Koyda
The game also crashed twice between Koyda and Talagi. I’ve had crashes before in areas where data coverage is a mess.
Heading back South also means heading back into the bad weather
Talagi spotted, thanks for the runway lights!
Arkhangelsk also known in English as Archangel
It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina near its exit into the White Sea
Home to Pamyatnik V.i. Leninu (Monument to Lenin V.I.), giant statue
Monument “Cruiserweight British tank Mark V” and Northern Convoy Monument
Memorial to the participants of the Arctic Convoys. In remembrance of the arrival of the first allied Arctic Convoy, Operation Dervish, during World War II.
Another crazy landing at Karpogory with the help of the drone’s boosted exposure
Lining up according to Google maps with road lighting as references and the ‘runway’ shall appear
For take off in an iced up plane I backed up all the way to the end, almost in the bushes
I still barely made it out, de-icing option would be nice for take offs
A break in the weather while flying over the Loptiyuga River
Yemva on the Vym river, frozen over
The runway is buried under snow, I think I’m on it
Syktuvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic, Russia. It was previously known as Ust-Sysolsk
Syktuvar Southwest Airport, last stop for today
To Kazakstan tomorrow.