Leg 238, Omaha, Nebraska via Kansas to Granby, Colorado, USA
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A double leg visiting a bunch of cities, getting spoiled by the rich amount of detail in the US data.
04-16 Eppley KOMA 3:59 PM Omaha PG Area
04-16 Millard KMLE 4:14 PM
04-16 Lincoln KLNK 4:26 PM PG Area
04-16 Nebraska City Mun KAFK 4:54 PM
04-16 Rosecrans Memorial KSTJ 5:18 PM
04-16 Kansas City Intl KMCI 5:30 PM PG Area
04-16 Charles B Wheel Downtown KMKC 5:38 PM PG Area
Terrible stuttering, memory increasing, end task, restart 5:58 PM
04-16 38°55’43.92"N 94°46’22.48"W 6:05 PM Small update appeared, downloaded, smooth again
04-16 New Century Aircenter KIXD 6:08 PM
04-16 Topeka Rgnl KFOE 6:22 PM PG Area
04-16 Manhattan Rgnl KMHK 6:53 PM
04-16 Salina Rgnl KSLN 7:11 PM Coronado Heights Cactle 38°36’48"N, 97°42’12"W
04-16 McPherson KMPR 7:23 PM
04-16 Moundridge Muni 47K 7:30 PM
04-16 Newton City Co KEWK 7:35 PM
04-16 Colonel James Jabara KAAO 7:42 PM Witchita PG Area
04-16 Witchita Mid-Continent KICT 7:52 PM
04-16 Kingman Airport-Clyde Cessna 9K8 8:02 PM
04-16 Dodge City Rgnl KDDC 8:32 PM
04-16 Garden City Rgnl KGCK 8:50 PM
04-16 Scott City Mun KTQK 9:05 PM Monument Rocks National Natural 38°47’36"N, 100°45’46"W
04-16 Oakley Mun KOEL 9:26 PM
04-17 Oakley Mun KOEL 8:17 AM
04-17 Shalz KCBK 8:26 AM
04-17 Cheyenne Co Mun KSYF 8:42 AM
04-17 Wray Mun 2V5 8:55 AM
04-17 Haxtun Muni 17V 9:10 AM 16 knot headwind icing
04-17 Sidney Muni/Lloyd W Carr Field KSNY 9:23 AM Chimney Rock 41°42’14"N, 103°20’52"W
04-17 Western Nebraska Rgnl/William KBFF 9:48 AM
04-17 Cheyenne Rgnl/Jerry Olson Fiel KCYS 10:16 AM PG Area
04-17 Greely-Weld Co KGXY 10:48 AM
04-17 Land CO82 10:55 AM
04-17 Denver Intl KDEN * 11:02 AM Denver PG Area
04-17 39°44’38.62"N 104°59’48.27"W 11:39 AM The Colorado Convention Center
04-17 Centennial KAPA 11:48 AM
Bad performance, memory increasing, end task, restart
04-17 Centennial KAPA 11:55 AM
04-17 Rocky Mountain Metro KBJC 12:05 AM Boulder PG Area
04-17 Boulder Municipal Airport KBDU 12:11 AM Can’t get over the mountain, icing
04-17 Granby Grand KGNB 1:07 PM Tough mountain crossing
Flight time 10:03 35 stops
First up, Omaha where I landed in the dark last leg. TD Ameritrade Park Omaha
Annual host of the College World Series & home ballpark of Creighton University men’s baseball team.
Omaha Downtown
Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge at the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Headquarters
Another pass through downtown, at S10th st - Dodge st, odd no avenues
Saint Cecilia Cathedral, opened 1905, completed 1959
Millard Aiport, the rain started
On to Lincoln Nebraska, BSNF Terminal
Nebraska State Capitol
Memorial Stadium, Home field of Nebraska Cornhuskers
Following the Missouri river into Missouri
Little glitch in Clay Township, grows taller as you get closer
Bigelow Township
Green Township, well named
Approaching Kansas City, Missouri
Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport
Kansas city center or is it Sprint center, actually it’s T-Mobile Center
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
National WWI Museum and Memorial
■■■■■ Leagues Baseball Museum at the left side of my plane
And Black Archives Of Mid-America, the building with the bright red roof
Exhibits on segregated league’s 1920 founding to Jackie Robinson’s 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers debut
Flying over Clinton Lake
To Topeka, here at the Kansas State Capitol
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site (The school with the red roof)
School at the center of a 1954 court case that ended racial segregation in education facilities. You can walk through the school in street view, turned into a museum.
Topeka Constitution Hall (beneath my plane)
One of the most famous surviving buildings of early Kansas, a two-story building of native limestone with a flat roof, constructed by brothers Loring and John Farnsworth between April and October 1855.
Manhattan along the Kansas River
Milford Lake
Coronado Heights Castle
Alleged to be near the place where Francisco Vásquez de Coronado gave up his search for the seven cities of gold and turned around to return to Mexico
Witchita, Kansas
Witchita The Keeper of the Plains and Mid-America All-Indian Museum
Botanica, The Wichita Gardens
New Wichita Ballpark and Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center
Dodge City Regional Airport
Dodge City known for Boot Hill Museum celebrating the city’s frontier past
Logan, entering crop circle territory
Scott City Municipal Airport
Monument Rocks National Natural Landmark, weird name, weird landmark
Bing has some info: Monument Rocks (also Chalk Pyramids) are a series of large chalk formations in Gove County, Kansas, rich in fossils. The formations were the first landmark chosen by the US Department of the Interior as a National Natural Landmark.
Oakley Municipal Airport Approach
Landing in the rain at night, fun
Good time to stop, continue in the morning
Oakley at sunrise
I70 in North Randall
St Francis in Cheyenne County, Kansas
Wray in Yuma County, Colorado
Yuma County, more circle farms
Climbing a bit to see the circles from higher up, of course rewarded with icing
Was worth it, great view up here
Gurley Nebraska
Chimney Rock, 325ft tall, part of the Oregon trail
“Completely underwhelming. Don’t waste your time.” according to a review on Google
Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming. Here at Frontier Days Old West Museum
BSNF Cheyenne yard on the way to the city center
Cheyenne Depot Museum dedicated to the Union Pacific Railroad
Behind it is the Historic Atlas Theatre, dating back to 1887, still in use
Wyoming State Capitol
Cheyenne Big Boy Steam Engine 4004
One of eight surviving examples of the world’s largest steam locomotives
Weld County, more circle farms on the way to Denver
Denver International Airport
Got a bridge, will fly under
Fitzsimons, Aurora, part of the University of Colorado
Denver Zoo below, Ferril lake and the smaller Duck lake
With pictures of Canada Geese, those aren’t ducks…
Colorado State Capitol under my wing, Civic center Park behind
Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception on the right
Trinity United Methodist Church hiding between the skyscrapers
Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies
Empower Field at Mile High, home of NFL’s Denver Broncos
Elitch Gardens amusement park visible behind the stadium
Sculpture Park at Denver Performing Arts Complex
That parking garage looked like the perfect landing strip
Colorado Convention Center
Difficult take off, just cleared the railing, should have backed up further, not much room to turn
Dipped down to keep control and climb again before hitting the street
On to Boulder, via Hillcrest reservoir
Boulder Municipal Airport
Colorada University Boulder East Campus
Folsom Field, historic home of the Buffaloes football & other CU-Boulder teams
Heading into the rocky mountains over Boulder County
Silver Lake, icing…
This crossing turned into a major headache, icing preventing me to get over the mountains
Finally decided to follow the I70
Then up a valley along Red Mountain
Finally over, managed to climb to FL125 over Range Creek thanks to a break in the clouds
Grand County, the grass is greener on the other side
Granby, Grand County
Last stop this leg, let my plane melt before the next one
Further South next leg to New Mexico and Texas.