Route: FAI J515 BRW
Dep Time: 0014Z
Arr Time: 0132Z
Block Time (Est): 1.25
Remarks:
What a flight! Took off in lovely weather, had great scenery enroute, but it was a little cloudy. Got more cloudy as I got nearer Will Rogers. The winds were 17 knots at 210 so I had to bring her in without an ILS on runway 24 with visibility of 6 miles and a 8/8 cloud lair at 200ft with mist. Came in initially on the visual, went straight over the field, went into left IFR circuts, tuned the VOR frequency and set myself up to intercept nice and low, nice and slow. Was at 2000ft, 14 miles DME, no airport in sight. Turned off AP and brought her down to about 400-500ft, finally I seen the PAPI lights, flew it in very low to land on a tiny runway, in an airport that can only be described as a shed, a taxiway and a runway! Great fun!
Flying it in the second time was like flying an oversized C150 with a blindfold! I love Alaska, everytime I come up here, something amazing happens! Usually the weather too!! 
Eoin Coates
