A fully annotated Vancouver Hong Kong flight on Air Canada with view of Georgia Strait, Comox, Campbell River, Alaska Range, Seward Peninsula, Bering Strait, Far East Russia, and the Amur River between Russia's Amur Oblast and China's Northeastern Heilungjiang province, plus a 3minute parallel flight just above a XiamenAir jet while flying over northern China.
0:150:20 New (2016) Haida totem exhibits at Vancouver International Airport (YVR)
More totem pole info at:
EN: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british...
CN中文: http://www.westca.com/Space/u=maohu/m...
http://www.straight.com/arts/627656/r...
3:524:43 Cockpit flightroute announcement
5:55 Bagremoval announcement (EN)
9:10 Readyfordeparture announcement
10:4715:15 Safety demonstration video
Map of YVR ground operations on p. 247 of this document
http://www.ivao.ca/charts/CAP2/CYVR.pdf
21:25 Takeoff run begins on 8R
24:01 Start of 180degree right westbound turn
24:11 Posttakeoff announcement EN, FR, CNM/P CNC
27:50 Start of 45degree right turn to proceed northwesterly enroute
30:45 Georgia Strait
31;35 Gillies Bay BC
32:40 Comox BC
34:35 Campbell River BC
37:35 Johnstone Strait BC
38:10 Mount Menzies BC (1,193m / 3,914')
39:18 Newcastle Peak BC (1,333m / 4,373')
40:25 Knight Inlet BC
40:40 Mount Palmerston (1,765m / 5,791')
41:30 Mount Russell (1,742m / 5,715' )
44:30 Alert Bay, Cormorant Island BC
45:10 Sointula, Malcolm Island BC (BC's 100+yearold utopian Finnish settlement)
52:20 Calvert Island BC (on BC's central coast)
53:50 Meal #1 pork & noodles
54:01 Anchorage on map
54:25 Trimokis Hills, Alaska Range ("inland side" of Alaska)
55:4557:00 Windy Fork of Kuskokwim River, Alaska
http://alaska.guide/River/1412176/Win...
57:10 Lone Peak (2,646' / 806m)
57:25 Lone mountain (range)
58:00 Big River, Alaska
58:30 Kuskokwim River, Alaska
Ninth largest river in the United States (by discharge volume at its mouth)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuskokw...
59:30 McGrath, Alaska
1:01:15 Takotna Mountain (3,203' / 976m)
1:03;25 Norton Sound, Alaska
1:04:25 30 miles east of Nome, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
1:07;55 Mount Distin, Alaska 2,115' / 645m
1;12;05 Cape Douglas, Alaska
1:12:20 Port Clarence, Alaska
1:16:00 Bering Sea
For a view of Russia's development of its Pacific region:
http://carnegieendowment.org/files/CP...
Берингово море
1:18:12 Crossing Bering Strait west to Russia
1:18:35 Chukotka Autonomous Okrug 721,481 км² Pop. 50,526
Far Eastern Federal District 6,169,329 км²
Чуко́тский автоно́мный о́круг Население (50 526 чел.)
Дальневосточный федеральный округ 6 169 329 км²
1:20:50 Saint Lawrence Bay, Chukotka
Залив Лаврентия, Чуко́тка
1:24:18 Lorino Pop. 1,267 in 2010
Largest indigenous village in the autonomous okrug
Лорино проживало 1484 человека (2009)
1:25:10 Mechigmenskaya Bay / Мечигменская Губа
1:30:35 Chukotka's landscape:
"Winter storms fill valleys with deep snow that takes a long time to melt, so summer doesn't come here until July."
http://dinets.info/chukotka1e.htm
1:35:40 Map position near Kresta Bay / Залив Креста
1:37:00 Looking north above Kresta Bay / Залив Креста
1:37:43 Above Magadan Oblast / Магаданская область (after Kamchatka Krai / Камча́тский край)
1:56;001:57:40 Position check on map: west of Gizhigin Bay / К западу от Гижигинская губа
1:58:55 Shore at Balagannoye / Балаганное
2:00:15 Torom, Khabarovsk Krai / Тором, Хабаровский край
2:05:00 Position check: north of Khabarovsk
2:05:25 Mountains north of Khabarovsk
2:12:05 Position check: west of Khabarovsk
2:17:552:19:15 Amur River / река Амур / 黑龙江
2:20:55 Position check: west of Beijing
2:20:282:26:30 North China
2:22:452:25;00 Paralleling Xiamen Air jet
2:26:30 Meal #3 Prearrival chicken salad sandwich
2:26:40 Position check: Wuhan, central China
2:27:20 Position check: Changsha, southcentral China
2:28:23 Arrival time & weather from cockpit EN & FR
2:29:252:30:42 Interpreted arrival weather & safety procedures Cantonese & Mandarin (Putonghua)
2:36:00 Descending into lowlying cloud layer
2:52:14 Pearl River bridge construction
2:53:47 Touchdown on 7L
Map of HKG ground operations available at:
https://extranet.hongkongairport.com/...
Flight as tracked by FlightAware:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AC...