*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
