Leg 308, Amarillo, Texas via Oklahoma to Fort Worth, Texas, USA
DAY06_25.PLN (10.9 KB)
Oklahoma, Tulsa and Fort Worth in this leg. Great cities, very nicely detailed. Oddly Dallas has no PG data, so I’ll give the Ewing Family a miss for now, plenty to explore with PG data.
06-25 Rick Husband Amarillo Intl KAMA 6:52 AM Sanford Dam 35°42’50.7"N 101°33’11.0"W
06-25 Hutchinson Co KBGD 7:05 AM
06-25 Perry Lefors KPPA 7:16 AM 40 knot winds
06-25 Wheeler Mun T59 7:30 AM
06-25 Clinton-Sherman KCSM 7:50 AM
06-25 King OK98 8:05 AM Hill in runway
06-25 Will Rogers World KOKC 8:22 AM
06-25 Downtown 2DT 8:27 AM Oklahoma City PG Area
06-25 Woodleaf Aero Estates 5OK6 8:52 AM
06-25 Stillwater Rgnl KSWO 9:06 AM
06-25 Crystal 0OK9 9:15 AM 40 knot winds
06-25 Gull Bay Landing 00OK 9:25 AM
06-25 Tulsa Intl KTUL 9:50 AM Tulsa PG Area
06-25 Jantzen 93OK 10:01 AM Unclear runway
06-25 Hatbox KHAX 10:09 AM
06-25 Davis KMKO 10:14 AM 34 knot headwind
06-25 Arrowhead 91F 10:35 AM
06-25 Mc Alester Rgnl KMLC 10:45 AM
06-25 Cochran Ranch 6OK7 10:56 AM
06-25 Stuart Ranch OK89 11:10 AM
06-25 Eaker KDUA 11:19 AM
06-25 Boatner Field OK90 11:21 AM Denison Dam 33°49’06.8"N 96°34’13.3"W
06-25 Kidd-Private TX12 11:29 AM Unclear ‘runway’ field
Overtressed Aircraft Game Over, restart. Must have switched the wrong option around.
06-25 Kidd-Private TX12 11:36 AM
06-25 ‘nuggs’ Flying M TE68 11:39 AM
06-25 Grayson Co KGYI 11:41 AM
06-25 Butler 11TX 11:43 AM
06-25 Lm Ranch TA93 11:45 AM
06-25 Mc Manus Field 8XS6 11:51 AM
06-25 Dallas-Ft Worth Intl KDFW * 12:11 PM AT&T Stadium 32°44’52"N 97°5’34"W
06-25 Fort Worth Meacham Intl KFTW 1:07 PM Fort Worth PG Area, Heavy stuttering, PG forests
Flight time 6:08 29 stops
Rick Husband Amarillo Intl, ready for departure
Taking off over Carson County
Sanford Dam in the Canadian river, yep lightning no matter what type of clouds
Hutchinson County Airport-Bgd
Hutchinson County
Perry Lefors Airport in Gray County, it sure is windy today
Sunrise over Wheeler County
Wheeler, located on the eastern border of the Texas Panhandle
Wheeler Municipal Airport
Wheeler Historical Museum, featuring Alan Bean (1932-2018), fourth man on the moon
Roger Mills County
Washita River in Washita County, Oklahoma
Spring Creek in Caddo County
Will Rogers World Airport in Southwest Oklahoma City
Known as “Oklahoma’s Favorite Son”, Will_Rogers (1879-1935) was born to a Cherokee family in Indian Territory, now part of Oklahoma. A great Renaissance man, died too soon (plane crash while surveying a mail-and-passenger air route to Russia). Some of his sayings:
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.
Oklahoma Downtown Airport
Seems to be gone, street view from Feb 2021 shows brand new houses where the runway was
Chesapeake Energy Arena, home of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder
And Myriad Botanical Gardens
Oklahoma Business District
Oklahoma City Hall at Bicentennial Park
Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, home of the Oklahoma City Dodgers
Regatta Park (below) and Centennial Land Run Monument (left) in Bricktown River Walk Park
Bricktown River Walk Park
Omni Hotel (opened Jan 2021) is missing in MSFS (also on Google maps, but there in street view)
Centennial Land Run Monument
Marking the opening of the land in Oklahoma Territory with the Land Run of 1889
Oklahoma State Capitol
Oklahoma City MEPS, Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum and Alfred P Murrah Federal Building, the trees below and to the left of my right wing
Alfred P Murrah Federal Building was the target of the Oklahoma city bombing in 1995, by anti-government extremists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. A truck bomb killed at least 168 people, destroyed more than 1/3rd of the building, and damaged 324 other buildings.
Stillwater Regional Airport
Keystone Lake and the Arkansas River
Tulsa on the Arkansas River
BOK Center (multi-purpose arena) and Tulsa City County Library
320 South Boston Building
Tulsa Downtown urban canyon flying
Holy Family Cathedral
ONEOK Field, home to the Drillers minor league team
Center of the Universe, mysterious spot where noises are echoed back much louder
Philtower Building, neo-gothic and art-deco building from 1928, designed by Edward Buehler Del
I’m too low to match the scene, but you get the idea
Arkansas River in Wagoner County
Muskogee
Eufaula Lake, Canadian River running through
Eufaula Dam holding back the Canadian River
You won’t get to Canada following the Canadian River. The river starts in Colorado and flows into the Arkansas River southeast of Muskogee. Likely mistranslated from Spanish or French in the 1800s.
US Army Corps of Engineers campground across from Evergreen Marina
Arrowhead Airport
Arrowhead State Park Golf Course
Pittsburg County, the clouds are creating weird illusion today
Cochran Ranch
Atoka County
Boatner Field
Denison Dam in the Red River
https://i.imgur.com/eku4wr3.png
Kidd-Private Airport
https://i.imgur.com/7vbijle.png
Oops, landed in the field. Checking on Google the ‘runway’ was on the other side of the road
https://i.imgur.com/LTS0a4W.png
Little Elm in Louisville Lake
https://i.imgur.com/8NhGIA7.png
Lewisville Lake Dam
https://i.imgur.com/U0QzthR.png
Sam Rayburn Tollway junction with the I 35 Stemmons Fwy at Louisville
https://i.imgur.com/63nEZJB.png
Dallas-Ft Worth Intl
https://i.imgur.com/i3yYJLI.png
That deserves a closer look, it’s one of those follow the line mazes
https://i.imgur.com/kNdNS64.png
Buzzing the tower
https://i.imgur.com/rKsn4oy.png
A new personal record for low underpass
https://i.imgur.com/tOWzWds.png
Just strolling by at 160 knots
https://i.imgur.com/g7aHBf0.png
The workers are too cool to look up
https://i.imgur.com/lK2C9eB.png
Close encounters of the tail kind
https://i.imgur.com/0QbbHlg.png
Continuing on to Arlington, AT&T Stadium
https://i.imgur.com/n8q42po.png
Formerly Cowboys Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys
https://i.imgur.com/EE2khro.png
Arlington is a bit low res, on to Fort Worth, located in North Central Texas
https://i.imgur.com/jm9UpwQ.png
Fort Worth Convention Center
https://i.imgur.com/LlxDs9T.png
The Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel
https://i.imgur.com/X6iMIcK.png
Tarrant County Court
https://i.imgur.com/DFXqYR4.png
Tarrant County College on Trinity River Campus
https://i.imgur.com/Vyn7szn.png
Fort Worth Zoo along Clear Fork Trinity River
https://i.imgur.com/5XxHD2F.png
Will Rogers Memorial Center, Casa Mañana and Farrington Field in the Cultural District
https://i.imgur.com/CwSTLQv.png
Casa Mañana (performing arts theater) and Farrington Field (named in memory of E.S. Farrington, a long time superintendent of the Fort Worth Independent School District)
https://i.imgur.com/CUfh7Qc.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnh95SeX2EY
Will Rogers Equestrian Center - Burnett Building and Will Rogers Auditorium
https://i.imgur.com/emR2wbP.png
Dickies Arena located in the empty spot in the back (2017-2019 construction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kSvtqvxWEE
Now one of the best best rodeos in the country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1P1UIEwKME
Camp Bowie Blvd crossing with West 7th st, University Dr and Bailey Ave
https://i.imgur.com/AaZP7un.png
Fort Worth Stockyards, historic former livestock district, home of Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame museum
https://i.imgur.com/ZDdzQ3b.png
Final stop today at Fort Worth Meacham International Airport
https://i.imgur.com/hHlTsck.png
Further east tomorrow, northern side of Louisianna then Mississippi.