*music*
Matt: We can go down to the south of Greenland and then up a little bit up the coast and then over
to Iceland, or we can just go straight across Greenland but that's a little tricky because the
ice cap's really high and we don't really know what the weather's gonna be like over that
So we're here in Nuuk getting ready to go, we're trying to go to Kulusuk; Iceland --
it's gonna be a crazy day like one way or another it's gonna be a lot of flying
we might run into some weather, turn around all kinds of stuff like that
but one super cool thing, we just met this guy over here, they flew, he and his dad flew this SR-22 up here
for the weekend from New York, that's awesome like that's what you can do with GA, like you can fly
you can end up in the most random places like Greenland for the weekend
like, I need to do more trips in the Bonanza to Greenland for the weekend! That's awesome
but yeah you can go anywhere, all you have to do is you know take some extra planning
but you just get in the plane and you go it's amazing
*music*
Matt: Ok let's go to Iceland!
JP: Let's do this
Matt: Got a lot of terrain over here to the east
so Runway 5 requires 425 feet per nautical mile, so we're gonna do Runway 23 so we're gonna climb
straight ahe ad to 6,400 and then we just have to do a regular 200 foot per nautical mile
we're gonna go up to flight level 120
N225TL: Cessna on the ground, are you on the radio?
Matt: Affirm
N225TL: Clear, completely clear for you, clear skies
Matt: Perfect, thank you
JP: What altitude did you break out?
N225TL: 900
JP: Awesome, thanks for that 0EU
Matt: Magnetic variation up here is 28 west
ok, you ready to go?
JP: I'm ready to go
Matt: Nuuk Radio, Centurion 210EU ready to taxi
Nuuk AFIS: N210EU roger, Runway 05, wind's variable 3 knots, no traffic on the runway. Temperature 6 degrees, dew point 4, QNH 1005, and visibility is 500 meters.
Matt: Copy all that, thank you and we'd actually like Runway 23, 0EU
Nuuk AFIS: N210EU traffic for climb to Flight Level 120 to Kulusuk is just departed Cirrus N225TL, he was airborne at 1708
and Flight Level 120 is the minimum safe flight level across the ice cap
Matt: 0EU thank you.
It'd be a real shame to taxi off the end of this
*laughing*
Matt: Ok you ready to go? I'll give em a call?
JP: I'm ready to go, pitot heat on
Matt: Nuuk Radio, N210EU departing Runway 23
Nuuk AFIS: roger
Matt: Ok pitot heat's on, that's all good
go full power, everything looks good there, temperature's over there
JP: we're rolling
Matt: This looks good, we're rolling
JP: airspeed's alive
Matt: we've got plenty of runway
JP: She wants to fly so I'm gonna let her fly
Matt: Sounds good
we'll get the gear up
Matt: wow that's a nice view over there now!
Louis: Wow!
Matt: For just a second
Ok we're climbing
GPS is telling us there's terrain ahead
and we're on top!
Wow that's cool, the mountains poking out over there
Louis: Woah lovely!
Matt: That is so epic
JP: This is what dreams are made out of
Matt: This is so awesome
Louis: These mountains are so epic
Louis: *humming Game of Thrones theme*
*laughing*
Matt: Are you fully up to date or are you like one episode behind?
Louis: Yeah I'm fully up to date
JP: Did you watch last night?
Louis: Yeah
JP: What?!
Louis: It was an hour and a half special, it was amazing
JP: What?! Louis, you have vlogs to edit!
Louis: Listen, alright!
*laughing*
Louis: I went on Twitter and someone actually kind of like didn't spoil it but they said something and I was like
that's it, I'm watching it I don't care
JP: Look at all the icebergs down there
Louis: Wow, oh this is just so beautiful
JP: this is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life
Matt: Ok so we'll keep climbing here to 12,000 feet, we'll level off, I'll give them a estimate for ASVID
and then I'm gonna have breakfast
I've never seen anything like this in my life
JP: Me neither
Matt: I thought I'd seen like basically the entire world, I hadn't
Louis: What so when you did your flight you didn't see anything like this?
Matt: No
Louis: This is pretty spectacular
Matt: It is
this is amazing
Sondrestrom Information: NEU information, this is just to advise you that I have a King Air callsign Greenland 811, shortly departing Nuuk, also routing towards Kulusuk and will be climbing
flight level 230 and you might be able to use him as a relay station over the icecap, just for your information
Matt: Great, thank you
Louis: The glaciers are just so immense, they're just
Matt: yeah and then it just extends for probably the next 400 miles
Louis: Yeah, I can't see the end of it
JP: And it's a cap, it's an ice cap so it's on top of mountains, like there are massive mountains underneath
Louis: Is this the biggest icecap in the world? Or is there...
JP: I don't know
Matt: Probably Antarctica
Sondrestrom Information: 210EU Information, did you call?
Matt: Affirmative, N210EU, Flight Level 120
estimating ASVID 1417, SOBVI next ...they probably say SOBVI [long o]
Sondrestrom Information: N210EU, Sondrestrom Information, roger, and report passing ASVID
Matt: Report ASVID, 0EU
So we gave them our position or we gave them an estimate over the next fix,
got the autopilot doing its thing
and I'm gonna pull out some breakfast
JP: Louis can you hand me my snacks as well please?
Matt: Thank you
JP: I forgot about this oh I'm so happy
Matt: What is it?
Louis: Chocolate milk?
JP: Chocolate milk and Oreos, hell yeah
Louis: I think this is the coolest place I've ever had lunch
Matt: This is the coolest place I've ever seen and it's definitely the coolest place I've ever had lunch
ATC: N210EU, Sondrestrom Information, roger, be advised between ASVID and ASTAN at flight level 120, we will lose VHF coverage
but passing SOBVI, try and contact high level aircraft frequency 127.85, backup 124.4 for high level aircraft, call relay passing SOBVI
Matt: Yeah it looks like we're gonna make it to Greenland today, or to Iceland today
*laughing*
JP: We're making it to Greenland today
Matt: Yeah we're making it to Greenland and Iceland
JP: Look at that, there seems to be a drop off or something, we are reaching the end
Matt: Yeah
Radio: Station calling go again, Twin Cessna N5346J, we read you
Matt: Yeah this is N210EU we have a position report to relay, crossed SOBVI at 1510
maintaining flight level 120, estimating ASTAN 1552, DA next, over
N5346J: Twin Cessna N5346J for N210EU Reykjavik Control copies your message
Matt: 0EU, thank you
the Bonanza right now is back in Lawrence getting a hundred hour done so we're heading along in Baloo here
N210EU, it's a nice 210, 210s are pretty similar to the Bonanza
little smaller, doesn't carry quite as much, goes a little slower, doesn't go quite as far, and doesn't seem
to handle quite as well
JP: I would say it carries more than a Bonanza
Matt: No no definitely not, there are a lot more Bonanzas
JP: *laughing*
Matt: Bonanzas are the longest continuously manufactured airplane in history, they have a
reputation for being built stronger than the 210, and I just love the Bonanza so I'm gonna sh** on the 210
in comparison
JP: I love Bonanzas too
Matt: But that said, this is a great plane, we're having a great time, it's working well, the autopilot
mostly works the only thing
JP: the autopilot's sh** let's just admit it
Matt: yeah the autopilot's sh**, yeah but I mean it get's it there, we're flying on autopilot right now
we're only a mile and a half off course so that's not too bad, it could be worse but it was worse until we
got it fixed a few days ago, the one key problem with this airplane, the biggest thing
JP: is the Aspen display
Matt: is the Aspen display, on the last leg we got a little bit of pitot ice, pitot ice should not you know
make you lose the attitude, the altitude, the CDI, the DGI, like everything
it just completely gave up, like
JP: that was very upsetting
Matt: look at that we're just like over all of this snow and ice and then you get these snowy icy mountains
going into this icy water and then the ocean
JP: looks like a big slushy
Matt: It does, so yeah we're just flying over the ice cap here, on our way up to Kulusuk
doing pretty good on fuel, we got a ton of fuel, we can actually go probably straight to Reykjavik
but it's just safer to stop and get some more so we have more options in case we run into any problems there
I think these might be the biggest icebergs we've seen yet
JP: Oh yeah
Matt: one of them has a little pool
JP: Oh my god!
This is where we would see polar bears
this is their kind of vibe
Matt: Yeah there are probably polar bears sipping Coca-Cola down there
*laughing*
JP: Kulusuk Radio, N210EU just started our descent leaving Flight Level 120
Kulusuk AFIS: NEU roger, Runway in use 29 and wind is 270 magnetic, 12 knots, visibility 7km, few clouds at 3,000ft, temperature 9, dew point 3, QNH 999, and transition level 90. Report 12 miles out.
JP: We'll report 12 miles out, 0EU
Matt: And we're gonna go in this fjord here after this first one on the left and then it's going to be on the left again
on that island there
Louis: Woah! Is that where we're landing? What the heck?
Matt: compact gravel
Louis: What?!
Matt: Yeah
Oh look at those icebergs over there, that's so cool!
Louis: We are literally landing on that
Matt: Yep
JP: Ok
*laughing*
Matt: and uh
Kulusuk AFIS: Greenland 811, additional traffic is a light helicopter callsign Helix 1, inbound from the sealock and estimating 2 minutes and cruising at 500 feet
Greenland 811: I've got it, Greenland 811
Helix 1: Kulusuk AFIS, Helix 1, 2 miles out for right pattern 29
Kulusuk AFIS: Helix 1, have you in sight and C210 on final Runway 29
Helix 1: copy traffic, Helix 1
Kulusuk AFIS: NEU on ground 1641, marshaller will be at apron and the King Air is holding for you and light helicopter is right downwind Runway 29
*music*
Louis: that'll be a hard flight to beat, won't it, for views
Matt: Yeah
Louis: for scenery
Matt: Yeah that's probably the most spectacular flight I've ever been on, amazing
Louis: and that's saying a lot bro cause you've done lots of flights
Matt: I thought I'd seen the whole world, I hadn't
JP: and the 20 what was it 28 polar bears we saw?
Louis: Yeah I think 28, 29
JP: They were amazing, so big, we could see them from 12,000 feet so big
Louis: How many polar bears you reckon, 28, 29?
Matt: Oh at least, several dozen polar bears, many, many polar bears
*laughing*
JP: build up a bit of speed here just to make sure
Matt: Yeah
and I'll bug 7,000
JP: Alright power's set, temperatures and pressures are good
Matt: ok
wow that's an awesome view out there
so here's the village over here
JP: Oh yeah
Louis: Wow!
Who on Earth lives out there?
Kulusuk AFIS: NEU airborne 1723
JP: copy that 0EU
Kulusuk AFIS: NEU report 5 miles to the east
JP: we'll report 5 miles to the east 0EU
Matt: That was the door right?
JP: Yep, hate it
Matt: yeah
JP: my general rule of thumb is that if I only hear one, then I know it's fine
Matt: One of the gear doors, what is it? It's like loose a little bit?
JP: the wind just stops it from closing all the way
Matt: Ok
JP: and when you pitch down or something just a wind change pops it back in
Matt: yeah so it makes a little bump that makes it feel like the engine's a little rough or something
but it's actually just that
anyway we just took off from Kulusuk, Kulusuk
JP: Kulusuk
Matt: Kulusuk, I think it's Kulusuk, yeah the accent is on the first syllable
we just took off from Kulusuk, Greenland and now we're heading to Iceland, Reykjavik
and so we're climbing through about 5,000 feet gonna go up to 7,000 feet for now
head on out, look at all of these spectacular icebergs and mountains over there and possibly
run into some tricky weather, there's gonna be some clouds, might be some icing, if there is we'll just
go down a little bit but yeah we're gonna go from there
we were supposed to report 8 to the east, are we 8 to the east?
JP: the second one
Matt: that was the door again?
JP: I hope so
Matt: Kulusuk, N210EU we're 11 miles east
Kulusuk AFIS: NEU now contact Sondrestrom Information 120.3, have a nice trip and have a good one
JP: I really hope that was the door
Matt: Reykjavik N210EU
Reykjavik Control: 210EU, Reykjavik, good day
Matt: N210EU VAXAN 19 er I'm sorry 1750Z, estimating 65 north 030 west at 1836Z, SOPEN next
we're maintaining flight level 070
Reykjavik Control: 210EU, Reykjavik, roger, you will probably fly out of range with me on this frequency
so contact Iceland Radio 127.85
Matt: Ok we'll try 127.85 for the next position report, 210EU
ATC: that is correct, at least there you should be able to relay through other aircraft if you can't talk to them directly
Matt: sounds good, thank you
Louis: alright we have Game of Thrones
Matt: nice
GoT: You don't care about the Iron Islands, the Iron Islands are nothing but rocks and bird sh...
Matt: Reykjavik N210EU
Reykjavik Control: N210EU go ahead
Matt: N210EU request Flight Level 090
Reykjavik Control: N210EU climb Flight Level 90
Matt: Climb Flight Level 90, N210EU, thank you
I don't think there's gonna be anything crazy out here, just this stuff
Matt: Reykjavik Approach, N210EU, flight level 100 with Information November
Reykjavik Approach: N210EU Reykjavik Approach, good evening, identified, when ready descend to altitude 6,000, QNH 985 hectopascals
Reykjavik Tower: N210EU wind 350 degrees, 8 knots, Runway 01 cleared to land
JP: cleared to land 01, 0EU
*music*
Matt: Ok so we just got here to Reykjavik, is that how you say it? Reykjavik
Peter: Yeah Reykjavik
Matt: Reykjavik ok so we just got here to Reykjavik, apparently we landed at exactly the right time
got a little show from a couple DC3s, ran into the Brightling DC3 again, just saw that at Oshkosh
met Peter here he's a pilot on the 757 for Icelandair and you were telling me GA is like super popular here
Peter: It is, it's really prevelant I mean I come from Norway and compared to Norway this is just
you know this is United States level
Matt: huh that's awesome
Peter: and there are so many pilots, everyone here wants to become a pilot now, I mean look at this
coming in right now this is just
Matt: yeah
Matt: Halldór just gave us a little tour of the Iceland Radio facility
Halldór: North of 70 north is all HF and VHF south of that
*explaining something* *aircraft interrupts*
Matt: Super cool, showed us how they communicate with planes over VHF and HF
and so one of the interesting things, the reason that for this oceanic stuff, the radio operator is separate from
the controllers is that for the radio they divide everything up based on frequency
so they'll have some people running the HF radio, some people doing VHF radio, or and then split those
up into different frequencies because like HF for example covers a really wide distance and so there
are different controllers controlling the airspace in areas throughout that whole like HF coverage area
so they just have to divide things up differently, here it's essentially divided by frequency
you know ATC it's divided by actual geographic location
Halldór: over the day this frequency here which is in the Faroe Islands
is covering this area here
Matt: Sure
Halldór: has much workload giving oceanic clearances and stuff
so somebody is taking this and only keeping this
only listening to this the Faroe Island transmitter
Matt: So it was all around just fascinating, they were showing us like the computers that
run you know that run all the HF signals and things like that
just got a big cable I guess running from all these HF antennas to the actual transceivers here
but yeah it was just super cool to see how all this works
Thanks so much
Halldór: Nice to meet you all
Louis: Thank you, Halldór
Matt: So we're taking this crazy ride up these hills to the top of this volcano and you know it was pretty bumpy
pretty wild, everything's going fine and all of a sudden the tire just comes off of the rim
like off the wheel so uh for the moment we're just stuck here but it's a pretty nice place to be stuck
to be honest
*music*
Matt: Yeah this has turned into pretty much a survival disaster, we're hours away from rescue
no food or water, JP is scooping up snow to drink, it's getting pretty crazy
JP: so hungry
Matt: just kidding, we're actually
JP: I haven't eating in like half an hour, this is crazy
Matt: yeah we're actually like 20 minutes up the mountain, it's cool
Louis: So what we're trying to do now is squeeze the tire from all the sides so it makes a rough seal
and as it fills with air it will pop on
Matt: We just saw this epic waterfall, walked all the way up there, like climbed on some chains to get up the
waterfalls between us and the big waterfall and it was awesome, like this place is just so cool
so much, so many amazing things to see
and uh yeah it's just epic
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