Keflavik to Narsarsuaq (BIKF - BGBW)

The Green, Green land of Greenland.

I'm not going to exagerate, but I'm glad to see the back end of that old girl they call Iceland and Keflavik airport. I hope she does not take this personaly, but her firey temper, and lack of patients makes her one of the most hostile destinations in this FSX world. She showed no mercy to this novice pilot! I managed to raise my gear and sneak out the back door before she kicked up another storm.

This is the fourth leg of the Aerosoft Around the World challenge and Keflaviks' temperament has left me a week behind the rest of the party, now already in Greenland. If all goes well, I should be joining them today.

The flight across was probably one of my best. The approach into BGBW was impressively timed as I dropped through a brief, clear window in the sky for a great landing. ASN weather was being kind to me. Best landing yet!!

Airport Scenery (BGBW) I downloaded the free scenery from FlightSim Greenland. You MUST have this scenery if you are even thinking about touching down in Greenland . Narsaruque sits at the base of some very impressive mountains that the default FSX scenery just does no justice to. Some great modelling work by the FlightsimGL team!
The Route I'm not to sure that this would be a legitimate route. But I followed a high level airway UT594 before making a left turn down to W57 Would a real airline fly direct? My routing was BIKF/ GIMLI/UT594/SOSIT/ DEVNU/ Intersect W57/KAYAK/ BGBW The weather got better flying over Greenland with some impressive scenery. Managed to get down onto the ground before some snow started to fall. The Flight Only 30 pax and a cargo of 11318Kg. The total blocktime was 2hrs39. I took off at 08:43am local time (8:42GMT) and landed 08:21am (11:21GMT). Not to bad as I was only 15minutes behind my scheduled time.
AI Traffic I wasn't expecting much traffic along this route. Air Greenland offers a few flight to Narsarsuag, but nothing direct from Keflavik. If you wanted to book this flight online  it would be a 1,  2 or three stop layover taking 18-24 hours. Good thing I organised this charter.
Charts  I battled to find any GOOD arrival charts for BGBW. What I did find, didn't show the 2500 foot mountain that suddenly appeared out of the cloud on my approach. I'm pretty sure its a new feature (or I had the map upside down . . )? Some big Mountains, I need a better chart . . or glasses.

Glasgow to Keflavik (EGPF - BIKF)

The Land of Ice, Fire . . . and electrical storms.

A"long haul" across the frozen straight to Iceland. This week has seen a steady set of rolling storms howl across this stretch of icy sea. High winds battering any aircraft making the crossing. On both attempts, wind sheer and electrical thunderstorms over Keflavik, threw up a few spanners, into the works. A "flame out" of number one engine on approach made things a bit more exciting. Only this time, I was able to get the engine restarted, . . . unlike the day before. Unfortunately there is no step by step procedure guide for what to do, that I could find? Things did not end that great, and I believe Keflavik airport must have been shut for the day after as they removed the wreckage.  Originally I had set the incidents for an emergency to occur during my "AtW" to 1%.What's the odd that I would have a similar procedural emergency on the second attempt of EPGF to BIKF?
Note: In total I ran this route four times before making it in one piece.

Airport Scenery (BIKF) Keflavik International Airport. A bit of a bleak landscape with little surrounding vegetation. It would appear that the airport is on a peninsular with Reykjavik a few miles to the north. I think FSX Iceland is lacking some imaginary scenary building. This airport was from Aerosoft and part of their "AtW" discount download and integrates nicely with AES.
AI Traffic BIKF is home to Icelandair. On the WoAI schedule (summer 2014) that I downloaded, there was a 13H05 departure from Glasgow to Keflavik. But if you go on to the airlines website I could only find flights departing from Gatwick. They must suspend EGPF flights in the winter?? WoAI Icelandair from AVsim
Charts  I got the BIKF AIP charts off the Aerosoft download. Not much to go on about. STAR and SID are basic.

THE FLIGHT PLAN

Time	Notes
	The Planning: I kept the departure time to 13H25 with a scheduled arrival for 15H30. The flight was suppose to take just over two hours, but I ended up 54 minutes late due to weather and inflight emergencies.
	The Route: EGPF/ LOMON/ STN/ RATSU/ BREKI/ BIKF Departed EGPF:  Rwy 23 SID LOMAN 3A Arrivals BIKF:  STAR via BREKI Rwy 20 ILS
	The Weather: Thor, the god of thunder, waiting to greet all new arrivals. Dodging storm cells at FL35 was still a very bumpy affair. Vomit bags are freely available in the front of your seat. The seat belt light will remain on for this flight!