A Snowy Day in Minnesota to a Clear Day in Paradise

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MINNEAPOLIS to SEATTLE to KONA

Yesterday I had the random feeling that I really wanted to fly the 757, and I obviously wanted to fly into Kona like I always do. (The 757 is easily my favorite plane, prove me wrong) so I looked for some routes and found that I could fly Minneapolis to Seattle, which Delta flies with a 757 in real life, and then Seattle to Kona, which Delta also flies in real life with the 757. I took off from a Snowy Minneapolis (yes, it was actually snowing there, so it’s realistic:) and flew to Seattle where I landed around 12:10 PST. After a little while at the gate I flew from Seattle down to a warm day in Kona where I arrived in Kona at 4 PM in Kona. Flight time from Minneapolis to Seattle was 2 hours and 46 minutes and Seattle to Kona took exactly 5 hours.

Flight Details

KMSP-KSEA-PHKO / MSP-SEA-KOA
Minneapolis to Seattle to Kona
Delta 643 / 644
2:46 • 5:00 • 7:46
@julianb

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Climbing out of Minneapolis on a Snowy, winter Minnesotan day
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After Flying over North Dakota and the brown plains of Montana, we start to descend through the mountains of Washington into Seattle.
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Putting the gear down as we approach Seattle
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Touching-down in Seattle ready for a trip to Hawaii
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After a little while in Seattle we lift off in the shadow of Mount Rainier
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Climbing out of Seattle with a great view of the Pacific Northwest
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Climbing (yes, I’m actually climbing in that photo) past the Olympic Mountain Range bound for warmer weather
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After hours over the open ocean we descend toward Kona past the South-Shore Volcano of Maui as we overfly the small town of Hana. Fun fact: Mokulele Airlines flies the shortest route in the United States on their flight between Kahului and Hana, only 25 NM.
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The gear go down as we fly the odd approach into runway 35. Fun Fact 2: Many houses in Kona are built into the mountainside of the volcano of Hualalai, shown in this picture
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Touching down in paradise as the gear smoke in Kona.

As always please let me know your thoughts and your favorite photo.

I’LL SEE YOU GUYS TOMORROW

What 2 airlines were the launch customers of the 757?

  • Continental and Monarch
  • Eastern Airlines and British Airways
  • Northwest and American

0 voters

Don’t reveal your answer if you know 😉

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A Cold, Dark, Canadian Morning to a Sunny Day in South Korea
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And if you guys have any long routes with narrowbody planes please let me know them!

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Funny, I actually had that same feeling yesterday. Suddenly, I wanted to do the Delta PANC to KMSP route.

Nice pictures! Your Screenshots and Videos topics never disappoint!

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Hey! Thanks for flying from MSP yesterday. Hopefully the METAR wasn’t too bad, had a big blizzard yesterday.

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#reworkthe757

Beautiful aircraft, great airline, great routes, great pics. Love the 752 so much

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I had a feeling I would see some photos of these flights. Nice pictures as always!

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Amazing! Great job! :)

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Beautiful! If you want a long and skinny route, go for SAEZ-MPTO or EGKK-CYHZ

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I did KEF-SFO once, (sorry @BigBert10) and it took 9 hours and 45 mins to fly, on the 752, it’s just that you need to cruise slowly for most of the flight, and I enjoyed it!

Great pictures as always!

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This aircraft is looking really long on this great shot!

Wow!!! Absolutely stunning picture!

Once again a really well made topic, looking very much forward to the next one!

You could fly Europe to the Canary Islands or the Cape Verde Islands!

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Minneapolis to Anchorage actually sounds like a really fun route to try! And thanks for the compliment :)

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It wasn’t too bad, visibility was more than enough for takeoff and there were only 10 knot winds

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Thanks a lot! The 757 is easily my favorite plane even if it’s bad in IF

#reworkthe757

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Haha the scenery is too good not to make a post on 😂

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Thanks as always!!!

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I’ve looked at a lot of those Copa routes, I’m thinking about Montevideo to Panama City which takes 7 hours or San Francisco to Panama City which takes 6 and half hours. And good idea with Gatwick to Halifax flight, transatlántica are always fun with 737s!

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I flew SFO-KEF too, great scenery but it’s too bad Iceland doesn’t have good scenery

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Damn 60 degrees north restrictions am I right?

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They call it the pencil for a reason! If only it didn’t point down in Infinite Flight ☹️

And good ideas for the flights, there are plenty of islands of the European and African coast to fly to

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Yep, same reason Anchorage and most of Alaska is boring