With the confirmation of IAH being in review for a future update and the confirmation of the Evo Blue 777-200ER livery, the days of the little-used Battleship Gray Triple 7 are likely numbered. Naturally, I wanted to fly it on a realistic route before it was too late.
The example in-game is N773UA, the 4th 777 ever built. She’s spent her entire career with United, and that only in the Battleship Gray and post-Continental merger liveries, having never been repainted in the 2005 Blue Tulip livery. These early, non-ER 777-200s are configured in a much-maligned 28 first class and 336 economy configuration for a total of 364 seats. Having last flown to Asia in 2019 and Europe in 2020, these older airframes, due to be replaced in the coming years with 787s, are mostly used on short-to-medium-range leisure routes, like EWR/ORD/IAH-LAX, ORD/DEN/IAH/EWR-SFO, LAX/SFO-HNL, and DEN/LAX/SFO-OGG.
Server: Solo
Airline: United Airlines (Battleship Gray)
Aircraft: Boeing 777-200
Route: KDEN-PHOG
Seat: 17L (Economy Plus)
Time En Route: 6 Hours 23 Minutes
Parked at Gate B36 at Denver for what will be a completely full flight to Kahului. The Pratt and Whitney Eagles on the nacelles are a nice touch.
Summer takeoffs with a field elevation of over 5,000 feet means that high thrust settings are needed to get airborne
Climbing over the Rocky Mountains
Leaving the Continental U.S. south of San Francisco. If you look closely, you can see two of the runways of United’s West Coast fortress hub at SFO.
Somewhere over the Pacific betwene California and Hawaii
On the base leg of our descent. PHOG is visible.
Evening arrival in Kahului
Parked at OGG