Sunday, March 15, 2015

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.



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