I landed there in MSFS!
ICAO for the lazy?
I don’t remember, but it is a landing challenge.
BIIS
Many thanks
Was it scary?
Luckily crashing in the simulator does not hurt :)
Oh I see! MSFS stands for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
MSFTFS
Left hand pattern.
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I’ve played enough KSP to know that’s a good location to crash.
It’s Ísafjörður (ice fjord).
Thank you. Fixed.
Almost!
What did I not fix?
Edit: Never mind, figured it out.
Icelanding spelling seems like a nightmare. Not like English is any better tho
Slowly learning Icelandic, with vague intentions of moving there. Icelandic is fairly phonetically written: most letters produce the same sound no matter their location. By comparison, spoken English has changed drastically from it’s written equivalent: there have been spelling reforms in Icelandic, and basically none in English
Like spanish or ukrainian then, nice. Well, Spanish has some phonetic variations for some letters, but the rules are static and can be learnt. Once you know it you know how to pronounce any new word. English is a nightmare I agree.
Its actually not even that hard. You have to learn a few extra characters but they make sense.
The only good thing about English spelling is I don’t have to worry about diacritic marks
You do sometimes have to worry about that weird g without the leg, though. But it’s normal to them, so they don’t guestion it. :^)
Yes, dozens of phonetic “rules”, that may or may not apply, for dozens of reasons, is definitely a better system.
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I’d hate to land there when it’s foggy
But after you land, where do you go
Isafjordur town. It’s like a mile up the road.
The aircraft backs up using thrust reversers
Usually you do a 180 rather than reversing blind.
Don’t runways that are set up for the 180 have a bulge at one end?
Depends on the size of the plane. For bigger jets, yes, but for smaller planes the width of runway you need to do a u-turn is about the same as the width you need to safely land of a gust pushes the plane a bit sideways.
uwu
I thought you were going to say backs up then takes off again
For a dip
Along that road out the bottom of the picture around the bottom of the fjord to the town of Ísafjörður which is not far out of view on the left.
Looks tough to go around
Or land when the wind shifts direction.
Bet it’s windy
Steep hills right by the ocean definitely do tell a clear story, don’t they? Just the sort of place where air smacks into an unmovable object and creates swirls.
It can be. I had to wait until the next day for a flight before because it was way too dangerous to take off.
The plane was shaking all over the place on the runway. It’s only little propeller things that go there. Think it was a Fokker 50.
Love myself a cool, arctic breeze
Cool as hell… Would drink a warm cup of coffee to it…
What time is sunrise this time of year?
Feb. 12.
It’s the Antarctic ice wall!
What is the missed approach procedure for this airport?
Not missed approach, but Wikipedia talks about an aircraft that had an engine explode on takeoff from here. The pilot decided that it would be better to fly to the next airport over rather than attempt to land here.
I checked on google maps and it wouldn’t be a problem. About 1km away, there’s a recycling station and a cemetery with lots of room.
Pull the flight yoke back like you’re trying to relocate it to the aft part of the cargo compartment and gun it. The air definitely looks cold and dense enough to do some impressive things with your aircraft, but I wonder what the elevation is.
Should be about sea level.
(The top of the cliff is, assuming Google maps is halfway accurate, about 600 meters)
Left! Immediately!
Don’t
Enlighten me as to why this airport is equited as opposed to using aircraft that can land on water
Likely for the same reasons that any airport near a body of water is built. Layman’s guesses would be ease of embarking/disembarking, less likely to be affected by weather, standard airplanes are more common…
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a modern plane that can land on water that carried more than a handful of passengers.
Largest I know of are some Twin Otters in Canada have floats. 16-20 people, but I’d call them exceptional and a Cessna caravan type is a typical large float plane. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-6_Twin_Otter
There you go. We’re just not flying the Spruce Goose and I’m guessing for cargo reasons if for no other, you want to be able to land large planes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QbWCB8AzLA
Pilot POV landing.
