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Flying the ATR has been amazing, so I decided to do another short intra-Georgia hop, this time from the city of Columbus to the super-fortress hub that is Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport.
Our route today has us taking off to the northeast on Runway 6 and making a turn to heading 340 direct to ATL for an ILS approach into Hartsfield's Runway 9L. Flight time on the 83 mile trip is a short 23 minutes with only 6 minutes at cruise level, which is at 12,000 ft.
Our flight today begins at Columbus Metropolitan Airport, where this morning Candler 102 went tech stranding 37 passengers. Therefore most of them were rebooked on my flight which is operating Candler 103 nonstop to Atlanta. All of them are making connections in Atlanta on to other cities.
71 passengers board the aircraft, while some last minute bags are loaded as well. We are nearing our operating weight limits with this flight. In the background you can see Candler 102, which is being worked on for the 4:30 departure to ATL, for some overbooked passengers who could not be accomadated on this flight.
Bags are loaded and the cabin door is ready to be closed. Tower grants us the necessary clearance for start up and taxi.
Starting up the turboprops.
We start our taxi to Runway 6 via the commercial ramp to Alpha.
From Alpha we turn onto Charlie.
Finally we make it to the end of Runway 6 at Charlie 6 and hold short. In the background you can see the Columbus skyline.
Candler 103 you are cleared for take off.
We rotate and climb with only 1500 ft of the 6997 ft runway remaining.
As we contact Columbus Departure, we are told that the onroute weather is not so good.
Columbus Departure tells us to turn heading 340 and climb and maintain 12,000.
At 10,500 we are given off to Atlanta Center. As you can see outside there is a lot of cloud cover, with almost a complete overcast.
At cruise level and making good time.
Above the heavy cloud layer.
Atlanta Center tells use to turn to heading 360 and descend to 9,000.
We are about to enter the cloud layer at 9,500 ft.
In the soup.
We continue our descent to 3,400 before Atlanta Approach gives us the final ILS Approach clearance for Runway 9L.
On the ILS Approach to Runway 9L. As we get closer to the field I cancel the approach and switch to visual.
As we do last minute check for landing in the flightdeck, you can see the view on final approach.
Almost there!
50....40....30....20....10....5.
Terra Firma!
We exit the runway at Mike 10 and taxi on Mike to make our way over to our stand.
We enter our stand which is D34A for today.
We shutdown and offload passengers and baggage. You can see how busy Atlanta is.
The passengers are happy to be finally in Atlanta and make their onward connections to cities such as Cincinnati, New York, Boston, Orlando, Tampa, Philadephia, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, and Paris.
Another great flight with Delta Connection operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines and the amazing ATR 72-200. I think I have found my new favorite aircraft!
Hope you enjoyed this flight and I hope to do more hops like this in the future!
Questions and comments are welcome as always!
-Pete
Our route today has us taking off to the northeast on Runway 6 and making a turn to heading 340 direct to ATL for an ILS approach into Hartsfield's Runway 9L. Flight time on the 83 mile trip is a short 23 minutes with only 6 minutes at cruise level, which is at 12,000 ft.
Our flight today begins at Columbus Metropolitan Airport, where this morning Candler 102 went tech stranding 37 passengers. Therefore most of them were rebooked on my flight which is operating Candler 103 nonstop to Atlanta. All of them are making connections in Atlanta on to other cities.
71 passengers board the aircraft, while some last minute bags are loaded as well. We are nearing our operating weight limits with this flight. In the background you can see Candler 102, which is being worked on for the 4:30 departure to ATL, for some overbooked passengers who could not be accomadated on this flight.
Bags are loaded and the cabin door is ready to be closed. Tower grants us the necessary clearance for start up and taxi.
Starting up the turboprops.
We start our taxi to Runway 6 via the commercial ramp to Alpha.
From Alpha we turn onto Charlie.
Finally we make it to the end of Runway 6 at Charlie 6 and hold short. In the background you can see the Columbus skyline.
Candler 103 you are cleared for take off.
We rotate and climb with only 1500 ft of the 6997 ft runway remaining.
As we contact Columbus Departure, we are told that the onroute weather is not so good.
Columbus Departure tells us to turn heading 340 and climb and maintain 12,000.
At 10,500 we are given off to Atlanta Center. As you can see outside there is a lot of cloud cover, with almost a complete overcast.
At cruise level and making good time.
Above the heavy cloud layer.
Atlanta Center tells use to turn to heading 360 and descend to 9,000.
We are about to enter the cloud layer at 9,500 ft.
In the soup.
We continue our descent to 3,400 before Atlanta Approach gives us the final ILS Approach clearance for Runway 9L.
On the ILS Approach to Runway 9L. As we get closer to the field I cancel the approach and switch to visual.
As we do last minute check for landing in the flightdeck, you can see the view on final approach.
Almost there!
50....40....30....20....10....5.
Terra Firma!
We exit the runway at Mike 10 and taxi on Mike to make our way over to our stand.
We enter our stand which is D34A for today.
We shutdown and offload passengers and baggage. You can see how busy Atlanta is.
The passengers are happy to be finally in Atlanta and make their onward connections to cities such as Cincinnati, New York, Boston, Orlando, Tampa, Philadephia, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, and Paris.
Another great flight with Delta Connection operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines and the amazing ATR 72-200. I think I have found my new favorite aircraft!
Hope you enjoyed this flight and I hope to do more hops like this in the future!
Questions and comments are welcome as always!
-Pete
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