Leg 222, Mys Shmidta, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, Russia
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Very grey / monochrome leg today. For a long time I was wondering whether I would get to see anything at all. Long stretches in the clouds, nothing but grey. It cleared up in the end with strong winds up to 65 knots tossing me around while trying to climb the highest volcano on Kamchatka Peninsula.
03-31 Mys Shmidta UHMI 5:25 PM
03-31 Anadyr UANY 6:21 PM
03-31 Mys Nizmenny UAND 6:58 PM
03-31 Ugolny UHMA 7:04 PM
03-31 Markovo UHMO 8:12 PM
03-31 Tilichiki UTIC 9:19 PM Over 30 knot headwinds higher up, flying low to avoid most of it
03-31 Tigil UHPG 11:36 PM 50 knot cross wind at 6,000 ft no visibility
04-01 Klyuchi Air Base UKLH 12:17 AM
Klyuchevskaya Sopka 56°03’26.0"N 160°38’29.5"E 65 knot winds up high
04-01 Milkovo UHPM 1:23 AM
04-01 Sharomy Air Base UYEL 1:35 AM
04-01 Yelizovo UHPP 2:02 AM
04-01 Khalaktyrka UHPH 2:09 AM
Flight time 8:44 11 stops
Departure from Mys Shmidta Airport
Lovely grey morning
Can’t avoid icing for long, on the way to Anadyr
Airport in Anadyrsky District, Anadyr Airport in game, not named on Google nor Bing
Mys Nizmenny on Zaliv Onemen bay
The airport, more of a dirt strip intersected by dirt roads
The real Anadyr Airport
Anadyr, sea port town located at the mouth of the Anadyr River
Pamyatnik Pervomu Revkomu Chukotki in the middle
It’s definitely another world out here, on the way to Markovo
Markovo Airport
Markovo in Anadyrsky District on the Anadyr river
Tilichiki on the Korfa Bay of the Kamchatka Peninsula
Zaliv Korfa (Korfa bay)
Reka Levaya Lesnaya
Tigilsky district, visibility is near zero most of the time, the weather radar red
Tigil, population 1691 (2010) declining
The airport or rather the swath of cleared forest dwarfs my plane
Not easy to get there by road
The weather finally cleared, Klyuchevskaya Sopka spotted on the horizon
Klyuchi Air Base at the base of Klyuchevskaya Sopka
Klyuchevskaya Sopka (15,584ft) highest mountain on the Kamchatka Peninsula and the highest active volcano of Eurasia
I tried reaching the top but the turbulence from 65 knot winds was too much together with ice still left on the wings proved to be too much. I reached 15,000 ft but then got dropped down to 13,000 ft while getting violently tossed around near the mountain.
Eruption less than a month ago
Mount Kamen (15,023ft) in front of Klyuchevskaya Sopka
Vulkan Tolbachikskiy part of Ostry Tolbachik (12,080ft)
Ostry Tolbachik and Gora Bolshaya Udina (9,590ft) on the right
Reka Kamchatka, getting more green
Milkovo, first mentioned in 1743
(might want to shovel the roads before the fields…)
Milkovo Airport
Huge patches of forest cleared for farming along Ulitsa Tomskaya (road)
Sharomy Air Base
Climbing to 6,000 ft to cross the mountains to Yelizovo
Mind the peaks
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport
Pamyatnik “Zdes’ Nachinayetsya Rossiya” and Bukhta Mokhovaya (bay)
Khalaktyrka
Khalaktyrka Airport (not named on Google nor Bing)
Final stop for today
Khalaktyrsky Beach on Avachinskiy Zaliv (bay)
Heading east for real tomorrow, crossing the Bearing Sea.