PAJN Juneau Mail Route 7 - Flight No's: JM07a - JM07b

In order to keep our happy pilots working, we've started bidding on cargo and mail ferry flights. We recently were contracted by several remote hunting/fishing lodges to deliver mail, supplies, and customers to 6 remote lake lodges. There are no official airports at any of the lodges, but each has a lake and a low powered NDB to help you along. Navigation skills are a must for this route. Weather can be dodgy and terrain can be difficult.

Comments from Your Fellow Pilots and Satisfied Customers on Route 7

Boy, we sure are out in the sticks! How did you find this place? - Mark Williams, Wendover, Utah (our first passenger on the route)
You guys bringing in mail and supplies makes our lives so much better. Thanks Mountain Air!
Dave 'Huck' Finn - Owner Huck's Hunting Lodge (Lake 3)
I have never been so lost, so cold, and so sure I was going to die! - Pete Kozlowski, MTN011 (Don't mind Pete, he's always like this)

Each Lodge has a lake landing area, a helipad and a beach landing area.
As always with PAJN Mail flights this route is Day/VFR only.
You can fly any aircraft you wish, this route was tested using the DHC-2 Beaver, Pilatus Porter (PC-6), Caravan Amphibian, DHC-6 Twin Otter float, and various helicopters. Excellent Helicopters are available at Hovercontrol (http://www.hovercontrol.com/) including float choppers!

I will stop short of saying this scenery is required, but without it the route is pretty plain. This scenery adds docks, cabins, and NDBs to all lodge areas on the route. You will come to love those low powered NDBs, so I HIGHLY suggest you download and install this little add-on. Scenery works in both FS2002 and FS2004. Plus, when you see the cabins, you know you found the correct lake!

Leg	Depart	Arrive	Dist.(App.)	Time(App.)
1	Sheldon Lake (CFS7) Sheldon Lake Dock Elevation - 2900 ft.	Hunting Lodge #1 Elevation - App. 5000 ft. Location - App. N 62 56' W 130 11' Logbook: After departing CFS7, Fly heading 030 until you find the road running NNE. This road is Yukon Route #6. Follow the road up the valley. Fly at 5500 feet if wx permits.Road (Rte 6) dog legs to the left, then up a hill and down into another valley. Keep following the road. Set your ADF receiver for the first low power NDB, 701 KHz. As you are following the road on an approximate heading of 030, the road will veer off to the left. Begin flying 040. Shortly you should pick up the first NDB.	40 mi.	30 min.
2	Hunting Lodge #1 Elevation - 5000 ft. Location - App. N 62 56' W 130 11'	Fishing Lodge #2 Elevation - 4600 ft. Location - App. N 62 36' W 128 40' Logbook: Depart Lodge #1 northbound and drop into the valley north of Lodge #1's lake. Pick up a small river and series of lakes heading northeast. The valley will swing around to an east/southeast direction and open into a very large valley. Follow the small river along the middle of the large valley to the southeast for several miles. Enjoy the lovely scenery. As you go farther southeast, the large valley will begin to narrow. As the valley gets fairly narrow, your NDB (702 KHz) should become active. Continue along the large valley until the Needle on your ADF points almost directly off your left wing then follow up a small valley to the lodge.	50 mi.	40 min.
3	Fishing Lodge #2 Elevation - 4600 ft. Location - App. N 62 36' W 128 40'	Hunting Lodge #3 Huck's Hunting Lodge Elevation - App. 6100 ft. Location - App. N 62 46', W 127 37' Logbook: Fly about 035 degrees magnetic after leaving Fishing Lodge #2. Climb to about 5500 and follow the valley. The valley you are following will descend into another valley cross wise to your flight path. Turn left and follow this new valley on a heading of about 355 degrees. Turn right at the next valley to begin flying a heading of about 070 magnetic. Your destination is up on the side of the snow covered mountain straight ahead. Your ADF should point the way shortly (703 Khz.). Low clouds can be a problem at this airport also. Just remember, Stay CLEAR OF CLOUDS. Brush right by em, but don't go in em!	35 mi.	25 min.
4	Hunting Lodge #3 Huck's Hunting Lodge Elevation - App. 6100 ft. Location - App. N 62 46', W 127 37'	Fishing Lodge #4 Elevation - App. 5600 ft. Location - App. N 63 11', W 127 53' Logbook: After departing Huck's Hunting Lodge #3, fly heading 270 retracing your flight back to Fishing Lodge #2. Fly 330 until you can drop down into the adjacent valley north. Follow the creek that flows up the valley. Creek eventually branches to the left. Follow it onto a heading of 030. Keep looking for another creek that branches to the left. Turn to follow it on a course of 270. Shortly, your ADF should become active. (704Khz)	25 mi.	20 min.
5	Fishing Lodge #4 Elevation - App. 5600 ft. Location - App. N 63 11', W 127 53'	Hunting Lodge #5 Elevation - App. 4000 ft. Location - App. N 62 37', W 129 28' Logbook: This is the longest leg of the route.On departure fly heading 020. A valley appears to your left. Fly it on a heading of 330. Left at the next valley on a course of approx 210. Continuing on 210 would end up in a hill so as the river turns left, follow it on a course of 170. When you get to a branch that enters from the right, turn to 210. In the distance you should be able to see O'Grady Lake. Head there. When you are directly over O'Grady Lake, turn to a heading of 150. Fly on the left side of four lakes. The four lakes feed a small river which flows south. Follow it. When the stream you have been following is joined by a branch from the left, turn to a heading of 110. You should see a Y branch several miles distant. Fly down the valley on 110 then right following the Y branch to the right (Course approx. 180 magnetic). Watch the ADF receiver (705 Khz).	60 mi.	50 min.
6	Hunting Lodge #5 Elevation - App. 4000 ft. Location - App. N 62 37', W 129 28'	Fishing Lodge #6 Elevation - App. 3500 ft. Location - App. N 62 22', W 130 54' Logbook: On departure follow valleys on a general course of 220. You will have to weave around some higher hills. The valley will widen out and you should notice (weather permitting) two larger hills ahead. Your 220 heading should take you roughly in between those hills. Stay towards the southernmost of the larger hills and pick up a small river with several lakes on it. In the distance, you should see a lake in a deep depression in the side of a mountain. The depression is shaped like a banana. As you approach the banana shaped lake, your ADF Needle should come alive. (706Khz)	45 mi.	40 min.
7	Fishing Lodge #6 Elevation - App. 3500 ft. Location - App. N 62 22', W 130 54'	Sheldon Lake (CFS7) Sheldon Lake Dock Elevation - 2900 ft. Logbook: You've had a long day and now it's the home stretch.The easiest leg to end on, but don't get cocky. Depart lodge #6 northbound past the banana shaped lake. Look left for any small valley and turn to a westerly heading. You will enter a large, flat floodplain area with many lakes. Continue westbound (hdg 270-290). At the west end of the floodplain, there will be an abrupt elevation rise. Sheldon Lake airport is on top of that rise...Sheldon lake dock is at the base of it. Tune in your NDB (700Khz) and cruise on home. Job well done.	32 mi.	22 min.

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	Set your Weather Theme to Fair Weather.	Cloud Level - 3500 ft. Wind from the NE 045 deg. at 10 kts.	Cloud Level - 2500 ft. Wind from the South 175 deg. at 18 kts.w/gusts. Moderate Rain or Snow optional.

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