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A fully annotated Vancouver - Hong Kong flight on Air Canada with view of Georgia Strait, Comox, Campbell River, Alaska Range, Seward Peninsula, Bering Strait, Far East Russia, and the Amur River between Russia's Amur Oblast and China's Northeastern Heilungjiang province, plus a 3-minute parallel flight just above a XiamenAir jet while flying over northern China. 0:15-0:20 New (2016) Haida totem exhibits at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) More totem pole info at: EN: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/first-nations-artwork-vancouver-international-airport-1.3420946 CN中文: http://www.westca.com/Space/u=maohu/m=blog/p=582765/lang=tchinese.html http://www.straight.com/arts/627656/reg-davidson-recounts-haida-myths-new-cedar-sculptures-yvr 3:52-4:43 Cockpit flight-route announcement 5:55 Bag-removal announcement (EN) 9:10 Ready-for-departure announcement 10:47-15:15 Safety demonstration video Map of YVR ground operations on p. 247 of this document http://www.ivao.ca/charts/CAP2/CYVR.pdf 21:25 Takeoff run begins on 8R 24:01 Start of 180-degree right westbound turn 24:11 Post-takeoff announcement EN, FR, CN-M/P CN-C 27:50 Start of 45-degree right turn to proceed northwesterly enroute 30:45 Georgia Strait 31;35 Gillies Bay BC 32:40 Comox BC 34:35 Campbell River BC 37:35 Johnstone Strait BC 38:10 Mount Menzies BC (1,193m / 3,914') 39:18 Newcastle Peak BC (1,333m / 4,373') 40:25 Knight Inlet BC 40:40 Mount Palmerston (1,765m / 5,791') 41:30 Mount Russell (1,742m / 5,715' ) 44:30 Alert Bay, Cormorant Island BC 45:10 Sointula, Malcolm Island BC (BC's 100+-year-old utopian Finnish settlement) 52:20 Calvert Island BC (on BC's central coast) 53:50 Meal #1 pork & noodles 54:01 Anchorage on map 54:25 Trimokis Hills, Alaska Range ("inland side" of Alaska) 55:45-57:00 Windy Fork of Kuskokwim River, Alaska http://alaska.guide/River/1412176/Windy-Fork-Middle-Fork-Kuskokwim-River 57:10 Lone Peak (2,646' / 806m) 57:25 Lone mountain (range) 58:00 Big River, Alaska 58:30 Kuskokwim River, Alaska Ninth largest river in the United States (by discharge volume at its mouth) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuskokwim_River 59:30 McGrath, Alaska 1:01:15 Takotna Mountain (3,203' / 976m) 1:03;25 Norton Sound, Alaska 1:04:25 30 miles east of Nome, Seward Peninsula, Alaska 1:07;55 Mount Distin, Alaska 2,115' / 645m 1;12;05 Cape Douglas, Alaska 1:12:20 Port Clarence, Alaska 1:16:00 Bering Sea For a view of Russia's development of its Pacific region: http://carnegieendowment.org/files/CP_Larin_Eng.pdf Берингово море 1:18:12 Crossing Bering Strait west to Russia 1:18:35 Chukotka Autonomous Okrug 721,481 км² Pop. 50,526 Far Eastern Federal District 6,169,329 км² Чуко́тский автоно́мный о́круг Население (50 526 чел.) Дальневосточный федеральный округ 6 169 329 км² 1:20:50 Saint Lawrence Bay, Chukotka Залив Лаврентия, Чуко́тка 1:24:18 Lorino Pop. 1,267 in 2010 Largest indigenous village in the autonomous okrug Лорино - проживало 1484 человека (2009) 1:25:10 Mechigmenskaya Bay / Мечигменская Губа 1:30:35 Chukotka's landscape: "Winter storms fill valleys with deep snow that takes a long time to melt, so summer doesn't come here until July." http://dinets.info/chukotka1e.htm 1:35:40 Map position near Kresta Bay / Залив Креста 1:37:00 Looking north above Kresta Bay / Залив Креста 1:37:43 Above Magadan Oblast / Магаданская область (after Kamchatka Krai / Камча́тский край) 1:56;00-1:57:40 Position check on map: west of Gizhigin Bay / К западу от Гижигинская губа 1:58:55 Shore at Balagannoye / Балаганное 2:00:15 Torom, Khabarovsk Krai / Тором, Хабаровский край 2:05:00 Position check: north of Khabarovsk 2:05:25 Mountains north of Khabarovsk 2:12:05 Position check: west of Khabarovsk 2:17:55-2:19:15 Amur River / река Амур / 黑龙江 2:20:55 Position check: west of Beijing 2:20:28-2:26:30 North China 2:22:45-2:25;00 Paralleling Xiamen Air jet 2:26:30 Meal #3 Pre-arrival chicken salad sandwich 2:26:40 Position check: Wuhan, central China 2:27:20 Position check: Changsha, south-central China 2:28:23 Arrival time & weather from cockpit EN & FR 2:29:25-2:30:42 Interpreted arrival weather & safety procedures Cantonese & Mandarin (Putonghua) 2:36:00 Descending into low-lying cloud layer 2:52:14 Pearl River bridge construction 2:53:47 Touchdown on 7L Map of HKG ground operations available at: https://extranet.hongkongairport.com/aom/Part%20L/Plan%205%20Taxiway%20and%20Taxilane%20Designations.pdf Flight as tracked by FlightAware: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ACA7/history/20161109/2010Z/CYVR/VHHH