Leg 312, Fort Wayne, Indiana via Ohia, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee to Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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Trading in the plains for some nice rolling hills and an actual mountain. A bit fewer PG areas this leg, but more interesting terrain as a trade off. Still another 9.5 GiB streamed today, photogrammetry uses a lot of data.
06-29 Fort Wayne Intl KFWA 6:13 AM
06-29 Decatur Hi-Way KDCR 6:19 AM
06-29 Mulholland OI99 6:26 AM
06-29 Sidney Mun KSCA 6:39 AM
06-29 Apple 0OH7 6:42 AM
06-29 Waco 1WF 6:47 AM
06-29 James M Cox Dayton Intl KDAY 6:51 AM Dayton PG Area 39°46’34"N 84°11’45"W
06-29 Moraine Air Park I73 7:16 AM
06-29 Hook Field Mun KMWO 7:25 AM
06-29 Butler Co Rgnl-Hogan Field KHAO 7:31 AM Cincinnati PG Area 39°5’58"N 84°30’37"W
06-29 Cincinnati Muni Airport Lunken KLUK 8:10 AM
06-29 Clermont County I69 8:17 AM
06-29 Creager 3OH7 8:24 AM
06-29 Bernie’s OA10 8:27 AM
06-29 Lewis 1OH9 8:37 AM
06-29 General Electric 92OH 8:45 AM US Grant Bridge 38°43’39"N 82°59’50"W
06-29 Ashland-Boyd Co KDWU 9:17 AM
06-29 Newlon I41 9:28 AM
06-29 Ona Airpark 12V 9:32 AM
06-29 Mallory WV12 9:50 AM
06-29 Island WV08 9:58 AM
06-29 New River Gorge WV32 10:19 AM
06-29 New River Bridge 38°4’4.40" N81°5’3.94"W 10:25 AM
06-29 Raleigh County Memorial KBKW 10:36 AM
06-29 Mike Ferrell Field WV09 10:47 AM
06-29 Welch Mun I25 10:54 AM
06-29 Tazewell Co KJFZ 11:06 AM
06-29 Tri-Cities Regl Tn/Va KTRI 11:30 AM
06-29 Skyline Peak 33NR 11:48 AM Biltmore Estate 35°32’27"N 82°33’11"W
06-29 Ashevill Rgnl KAVL 12:08 PM
Flight time 5:55 29 stops
Departing from Fort Wayne just ahead of sunrise
The sun popping right up while climbing
First stop Decatur Hi-Way on Hwy 224 in Union Township
Second stop Mulholland in Center Township. So many airports here, I need to skip more
St Marys State Fish Hatchery in Grand Lake St Marys State Park
Sidney Municipal Airport- KSCA
Historic WACO Airfield in Concord Township
Great Miami River Recreational Trail in Northridge, Harrison Township, Ohio
Kettering Field on the Miami River in Dayton, located in western Ohio
RiverScape MetroPark, right after the Mad River joins the Miami River
Day Air Ballpark home of the Dayton Dragons
RTA Hub, the 5 little stalls, bus station
The Commercial Building on S Ludlow St, the one with the glass dome roof
Sinclair Community College behind Sinclair parking garage
Stuart Field at the University of Dayton
Carillon Historical Park
Home to Wright Brothers National Museum, a bit overgrown in MSFS
Orville Wright was born in Dayton in 1871, Wilbur was born in Millville in 1867
The first powered flight was at Kittyhawk, NC, on the Atlantic coast in 1903
Miami Bend Park in West Carrollton
Moraine Air Park
Miamisburg, also along the Great Miami River Recreational Trail
The trail hugs the river for 75 miles, I would love to go cycling on that trail
https://www.miamivalleytrails.org/trails/great-miami-river-trail
Mound Golf Course at Miamisburg Mound Park
home to Ohio’s largest prehistoric burial mound, made by the Adena culture (800 BC to 100 AD)
Middletown Regional Airport
Arriving in Cincinnati at Carthage neighborhood
Ivory Dale
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Nippert Stadium, home to the Bearcats, on The University of Cincinnati Campus
(Site of) TQL Stadium, originally West End Stadium, home to FC Cincinnati, soccer stadium
The picture shows the former Stargel Stadium, which was dismantled end 2018
Paul Brown Stadium, home to the Cincinnati Bengals, John A Roebling Suspension Bridge and Great American Ball Park, home to the Cincinnati Reds
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center behind Great American Ballpark
Fountain Square
Cincinnati Music Hall at Washington Park, home to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Here’s some nostalgia served up by the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra
Findlay Market, Ohio’s oldest continuously operated wet market
One of Cincinnati’s most cherished institutions, welcoming more than one million visitors each year
Museum Center in Cincinnati Union Terminal
On the track side, Robert D Lindner Family OMNIMAX Theater
Bellevue Beach Park on the Ohio River
Campbell County, heading for the airport
Cincinnati Municipal Airport - Lunken Field ahead
Riverfront Live and Peddlers Flea Market before the runway
Clermont County Airport
Creager Airport
Lewis Airport-22II on the James A Rhodes Appalachian Hwy
General Electric Airport at GE Aviation Engine Testing in Peebles, Ohio
US Grant Bridge over the Ohio river at Portsmouth, Kentucky
A three span cable-stayed structure, built between 2001-2006
https://i.imgur.com/eiaDOqM.png
I haven’t flown upside down in a while, a wee bit close to the deck
https://i.imgur.com/x0ZecSA.png
Enough clearance but it still slammed me down into the river after unpausing, can’t fly underneath this one
https://i.imgur.com/0k4ahoW.png
Ashland-Boyd County Airport
https://i.imgur.com/1b27bun.png
Robert Newlon Airpark in West Virginia
https://i.imgur.com/ygdvRh3.png
The Ohio river forms the state border here, Ohio on the other side
Ona Airpark-12V next to Ona Speedway
https://i.imgur.com/9O7WCog.png
St Albans, West Virginia on the Kanawha River
https://i.imgur.com/DoZ1Czb.png
Looking for Mallory Airport, while flying over Spring Hill, South Charleston
https://i.imgur.com/8vBCbbB.png
There it is, nicely hidden
https://i.imgur.com/LGXWVm5.png
Flying low has its disadvantages
https://i.imgur.com/hB451OZ.png
Scotts Island Airport ahead at Chesapeake
https://i.imgur.com/nBfoRAh.png
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, not as good as the B&O, but a great asset in the second stage of the game, especially when teamed up with the PRR (1830: Railway and Robber Barons board game)
I started writing a PC version of 1830 back in the 90s with a friend. We got the database, map management and bidding rounds done, about to start on the main game play loop when I found the game for PC in a store. It came out in 1995. At least we didn’t get that far yet! Pre Internet days.
Scotts Island in the Kanawha River
https://i.imgur.com/L23y0gH.png
Taking off next to Diamond on the north bank
https://i.imgur.com/q0jvt4K.png
Montgomery and Dunn Hollow (coal mine)
https://i.imgur.com/xDO0DgO.png
Alloy, originally known as Boncar
https://i.imgur.com/g4lQjdX.png
Kanawha Falls
https://i.imgur.com/yrXL8Hb.png
https://i.imgur.com/YEsLII4.png
New River Bridge at New River Gorge
https://i.imgur.com/bRXqVBP.png
New River Gorge Airport at Ames Heights close to the bridge
https://i.imgur.com/U9ynImY.png
New River below, hmm that bridge looks like a runway
https://i.imgur.com/n5surey.png
No need for the airport, this works perfectly fine
https://i.imgur.com/1IWTmCJ.png
No problems flying under this one
https://i.imgur.com/25Q4y48.png
3,030 feet long, 876ft high, completed in 1977, then the world’s highest regular roadway bridge
https://i.imgur.com/0rTuBRj.png
Home to Bridge Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKYSCmusriQ
Terry, West Virginia
https://i.imgur.com/M1IdG3q.png
Raleigh County Memorial Airport
https://i.imgur.com/S0lAQAs.png
Pocahontas Coal Co LLC on Stonecoal Creek
https://i.imgur.com/FnsFCz0.png
Mike Ferrell Field
https://i.imgur.com/9hzOx7I.png
Welch Municipal Airport at Big Four on Elkhorn Creek
https://i.imgur.com/iabvZ7T.png
Tazewell County Airport
https://i.imgur.com/uotooVR.png
A bit longer stretch to the next stop, up to 10,000ft for an overview, above Russel County
https://i.imgur.com/rUhLHRK.png
Washington County, located in the Apalachian Mountains
https://i.imgur.com/Y5ur7Cs.png
Bristol cradling the border between Virginia and Tennessee
https://i.imgur.com/02trZZb.png
The border runs through State st, center of town
Tri-Cities Airport
https://i.imgur.com/6CPrDbj.png
Lamar on the Nolichucky River in Tennessee
https://i.imgur.com/tOAi0Xu.png
Lamar Alexander Rocky Fork State Park, Big Bald mountain ahead
https://i.imgur.com/0H1WUkc.png
Big Bald (5,515ft)
https://i.imgur.com/4VFNDIj.png
Skyline Peak Airport
https://i.imgur.com/imxVLSW.png
Flat Creek in Buncombe County
https://i.imgur.com/xMtFiRH.png
Weaverville in Buncombe County, North Carolina
https://i.imgur.com/gEzSqec.png
Biltmore Estate, George W. Vanderbilt’s iconic French Renaissance château
https://i.imgur.com/W0VZECj.png
Completed in 1895, 250 room château with walled garden and conservatory
https://i.imgur.com/DAHZmeH.png
George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862-1914) art collector and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family
https://i.imgur.com/fXMCTMe.png
Asheville Regional Airport
https://i.imgur.com/taB160Q.png
Final stop for the day, just before the rain rolls in
https://i.imgur.com/FujWuQb.png
I’ll be heading east tomorrow, more of North Carolina