Philadelphia to Seattle
Hello fellow humans, (and @Suhas who we all know isn’t a human). Today I have a pretty simple route, but one that was definitely a fun one. I was looking for a good route to fly for @AmericanVirtual. I was in Philly for my career mode so I thought about a sunset flight to Miami, or a transcontinental flight to San Francisco or Los Angeles. I decided to fly to Seattle because it is a classic United States transcontinental flight and I love Seattle. During peak season this flight is flown up to 3 or 4 times a day, a couple by Alaska and a couple by American. I decided to fly this flight pretty late in the day and left Philadelphia around 4:30 PM Eastern, we flew West over the rest of PA, over Ohio and the Great Lakes where we crossed their west coast above Milwaukee. The views were great once we got over Montana and they continued to be great over Idaho and Washington. I flew the Spokane (GEG) STAR into Seattle where we arrived around 6:40 PM Pacific, or 9:40 back in Philadelphia. I used the American A321, which is used on almost all transcontinental flights from PHL and flight time was 5 hours and 15 minutes.
Flight Details
KPHL-KSEA • PHL-SEA
Philadelphia to Seattle
American (AAVA) 643
Airbus A321-200
5:15
Butter 😏
@Ur_Friendly_Approach @JulianB
A mid afternoon departure from Philadelphia Gear up, as we climb away from runway 27L Turning to the west away from the United States’ 6th largest city, and the biggest in Pennsylvania The small mountains and large hills of Central Pennsylvania and the Appalachian Mountains, the largest landforms we’ll see until the Cascades on approach into Seattle The mountains of Ovando in Montana Turning over the City of Spokane in Eastern Washington The Cascade Mountains just East of Seattle making sure I’m paying attention to my altitude Turning toward runway 36R after flying our downwind leg into Seattle the golden hour sun shines into the cockpit instruments The gear go down 5 miles out as we’re cleared to land in Seattle Touching down in the shadow of Mount Rainier as an Omni 777 puts its gear down for BFI, Boeing Field.
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- It is known for having the best beaches in the world
- It was the first capital of the United States
- It is the biggest city in the United States on the Eastern Seaboard
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