This allowed for some nice lower altitude pictures though :)
This airliner had to hold for me to take off. I got out as quickly as I could :)
This airliner had to hold for me to take off. I got out as quickly as I could :)
overall view of Las Vegas to Grand Canyon
Las Vegas McCarran takeoff (blue) and landing (red)
Other shot from the strip showing the first overfly on the way to GCN in pink
interesting staircase effect (I wasn't flying that way :-D)
Grand Canyon Airport and South Rim
A quick loop around Grand Canyon West and the Skywalk
Hoover Dam with newly constructed bridge
Bishop Pass trail to John Muir Trail?
Vegas Suburbs, including a new one being built
Google Earth already added the new bypass bridge
Grand Canyon West with the Grand Canyon Skywalk
I had a follow the magenta line GPS track plotted to get in the hard to follow corridors
I then crossed to the higher altitude North Rim which was snowed in
this is a clearance takeoff strip with assigned runway and initial altitude restriction
the weather computer runs linux
planes arriving almost side to side