B738 N789TA 'Beavertail Island'

[CBreuer]

Tradewind Alaska has several B737-800 in its fleet and one of these is N789TA. This aircraft was scheduled to do flight TAA1081 today, which normally is operated by B739's.

(FPL-TAA1081-IS
-B738/M-SDE1FGHIJ1M1RWXYZ/LB2
-KIAH1200
-N0461F370 MMUGS4 LCH/N0461F350 Q24 LSU/N0466F330 Q24 PAYTN WARRR1
-KATL0138 KBHM
-PBN/A1B1C1D1L1O1S1 NAV/RNVD1E2A1 DOF/160817 REG/N789TA
EET/KZTL0058 KZTL0123
SEL/EFCH CODE/AAB39F RVR/75 OPR/TRADEWIND ALASKA ORGN/PANCTAAP
PER/C
RMK/TCAS
-E/0332)

With 167 PAX on board we are ready to push at 12:01Z one minute behind schedule.
   

   

We taxied for the usual runway 15L departure:
   

We finally took off at 12:11Z and shortly thereafter we entered the lower clouds:
   

We initially climbed to FL370, but made our two step downs to FL350 and FL330 according to the flightplan.
The flight lasted only 1 minute longer than calculated and we touched down on runway 28 at 13:51Z after a flying time of 1:39. We taxied to gate T6 where we arrived at 14:03Z for a BTB time of 2:02. We arrived there 2 minutes early, obviously because of the great planning of dispatch, or was it because of our flying skills, or because we didn't need to taxi a longer distance? Who knows...
Once at the gate the passengers disembarked and the baggage was unloaded by Delta personnel.
   

   

http://www.fsxtracker.com/viewflight/48192

[Snowboss]

Thanks for the report and great photos, Christian!

[CBreuer]

After I've updated the scenery with the new AFD file which 'opens' all parking positions it was really fun to depart Atlanta. The airport was heavily packed with aircraft mainly DAL, but I expected this.
We did the return flight to Houston and so here is the ATC Flightplan:

(FPL-TAA2220-IS
-B738/M-SDE1FGHIJ1M1RWXYZ/LB2
-KATL1550
-N0457F380 KAJIN1 STNGA/N0457F360 DCT MHZ/N0462F340 DCT AEX DOOBI2
-KIAH0132 KAUS
-PBN/A1B1C1D1L1O1S1 NAV/RNVD1E2A1 DOF/160818 REG/N789TA
EET/KZME0028 KZHU0052
SEL/EFCH CODE/AAB39F RVR/75 OPR/TRADEWIND ALASKA ORGN/PANCTAAP
PER/C
RMK/TCAS
-E/0323)

Baggage loading is complete and we are only waiting for the remaining passengers to board the aircraft and find their seats.
   

At 15:51Z the push back finally started and we could start the engines followed by a short taxi to runway 09L.
   

About to line up:
   

Does he hold short?
   

Nice climb out after we took off at 16:00Z:
   

The cruise flight was nice and we first climbed to FL380, but just only to stay there for a couple of miles. Then we made a step down to FL360 and later on another one to FL340 until we finally started our arrival to a TS surrounded Houston. It was a rough approach to runway 27 at Houston, but we made it down in one piece. We touched down at 17:33Z for a flying time of 1:33.
   

We taxied to gate C15 and we got blocked in at 17:39Z for a BTB time of finally 1:48. We arrived 34 minutes early.
   

http://www.fsxtracker.com/viewflight/48371

[TCA2050]

Beautifull shots Christian, I have many good memories of this aircraft !

[Snowboss]

Christian, nice report and great photos. Delta has Atlanta pretty much sewed up as United has in Houston.