Alaska - Aleutian Chain Tour

Yikes, Good question Allen. I've looked at a number of those stops and see nothing about airports there. Perhaps Yoland or Mike can offer some information. It appears that the flight tour was created by someone other than Yoland, so that might be problematic.

Very interesting question Allen. Apparently the Aleutian schedule was built by Steve Sellmeyer. It seems that airfields were built on Tanaga (definitely) and Amchitka (probably) by the Seebees during WWII. The Japanese built an airfield on Kiska, which was ultimately occupied by the US, which did use that field during the war. As nearly as I can tell, none of these fields are active today and they do not appear to be in FSX. The more interesting question is where Steve got the airfield identifiers (ASI, CH and GKI). I can find no trace of those. I'll see if I can contact him to find out.

No matter, however, if they aren't in FSX, you can't "land" on them. So how to continue the tour? There would seem to be a couple of possibilities: (1) The most realistic would be to use a seaplane or an amphibian and land offshore the island in a probable looking inlet, or (2) Use a short field aircraft with tundra tires and overfly the islands at low altitude looking for a flat stretch of terrain on which you might land (real bush flying). Either of these options would allow you to log the flight. I've been trying something similar landing on Alaskan glaciers in ski equipped bush aircraft. There is a big question about the fidelity of the simulator in these landings, but I'm not sure whether it's too hard or too easy. If you try this, you might want to turn off crash detection.

Mike<br /><br /><!-- editby --><br /><br /><em>edited by: Westcoast, Sep 19, 2015 - 12:45 PM</em><!-- end editby -->

Sure, you could just fly on to PASY and log it as 94828 with the correspondingly long flight time. I thought you were looking for a more creative solution. If you haven't already noticed, our system will allow you to log a ham sandwich (to paraphrase a legal saying). The only check is "management", and we've all got better things to do than police the PIREPs we get.

Mike