Here we go here we go it's wait it is a big flight is it four hours 16 still?
Yeah four sixteen.
You're a lot more alone out here feels a lot more this will be the furthest North I've
ever flown in an airplane this big deal 64 64 degrees north that's how far north Reykjavik
the capital of Iceland is to put that in context the Arctic Circle here on planet Earth is
a line that's drawn around 66.6 degrees north
Iceland has been the top of my bucket list for well as long as I've been a pilot to be
honest I've tried and failed on a few occasions in the past but today I mean WIC in Far North
Scotland the gateway to the North Atlantic and if everything goes according to plan if
we get our clearances if the weather improves a little bit and if the freezing conditions
aren't too bad over the North Atlantic today today I might actually achieve that dream
of flying to Iceland this is a massive day for me [Music]
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JP's there how come we're not on here yeah send a picture yeah I will wait wait wait
wait wait
so we have a four hour flight now across the North Atlantic in a single-engine aircraft
we obviously have to put on our survival suits just in case as you can see we are now suited
up everything has been done with far north aviation in terms of just uh paying our bills
paying our Landing fees doing all the admin stuff we're just going to give the aircrafts
a quick pre-flight now we're fueled up though that was all done yesterday
remember three Victor proper that's the Airfield now open hold at Charlie report ready for
departure and I'll get you a depression
and we'll hold it Charlie we're actually just ready for departure now November one to three
weeks apart remember one two three Victor Papa after the departure roots on track bamra
climb fight level one two zero two two three two procedural service that's departure on
track Bama climb flight level one two zero Squad two two three two procedural service
one two three remember three Victor pepper correct
all right
he's got his control November one two three Victor Papa departed Wick we're passing 3
900 climbing flight level one two zero direct camera for one two three and uh squawk Iden
please watch your request excision level and uh if available at Traffic Service November
one two three okay traffic servers and it's going to be reduced traffic information transport
in the aircraft only uh when you're ready you can direct to death Peak office traffic
service and web ready directed MB uh one two three foreign
the top of the cloud where it's the coldest so that's where it was really forming for
two minutes we could run it try to clear clear some of this off okay you know I mean I don't
know how necessary it is to myself but I mean that's enough there could that be any more
beautiful that's dying that's gorgeous clouds as far as the eye can see
a big stopper and my coverage is you get farther uh north and west becomes worse and worse
um can you take Iceland's or Reykjavik frequency which is one two six decimal seven five zero
in case I lose two-way with you and if you can't hear me sort of buy uh Jeffrey then
if you just call them on that they will be expecting you but otherwise stay with me for
control as long as you can third will remind you as long as you can and we've got one two
six decimal seven five zero for Iceland if when we lose you November one two three things
tomorrow correct thanks for that
it is a long flight is it four out of 16 still 4 16.
when you're planning it when you're planning it on a map it always feels a lot less when
you draw the line just from there to there and you think oh yeah that's very doable but
you know when you're actually in it remember one two three Victor Papa recall me please
one two eight different six seven five
one two eight decimal six and five November one two three weeks to promote Scottish control
November 1 maintaining flight level one two zero remember one two three mixed up thank
you very much for that can you just confirm your estimate for deathly please and one two
three Victor Papa UTC one zero two eight one zero two eight copy thanks for that how many
times have you done this trip I don't know 10 12.
a body of you flying across here you've done Pistons across this is my first time in a
piston honestly personally piston no just kidding what would it take you in the visit
yet would take us about two hours and 10 minutes yeah and for us it was about four four and
a half four yeah four well right now it looks like it's 4 40.
before 40.
when we flew to Norway we kind of just went directly east from here yeah yeah pretty much
by the time we get to when we get our Oceanic clearance this will be the furthest North
I've ever flown in an airplane this big deal I remember in Norway we were always thinking
that actually there were a lot of options because we had a lot of oil platforms there
in the North Sea yeah right we never thought that we were really isolated and we're isolated
here yeah yeah that's true you're a lot more alone out here feels a lot more a lot
still we have options yeah you have the Pharaohs which have the Tailwind towards it or even
Wick okay we can always come back we're storing away it's just off to our left you know once
we're halfway we have the Faroe Islands
now we should be getting our um Icelandic not our Icelandic we're our Oceanic clearance
soon shouldn't we because we're approaching the boundary for reykjavik's control that's
right but we I haven't heard from Scottish radio for a bit so if we continue not to hear
from them maybe we'll try Iceland before we go in what would happen if we didn't get either
of them and we're passing through we keep going until we can raise them yeah mostly
because our clearance out of Wick was the Iceland directly
Icelandic radar November one two three Victor Papa request
over one two three little pop-ups okay that's fine three four one three
three four one three one three November one two
two three request number one two three Victor Papa um well we are just looking for our Icelandic
clearance and we if possible for some track shortening if we could get direct to Old Moss
then [Applause]
I miss that Phillies
[Applause] and November 1c3 Pizza papaya is cleared to Reykjavik by ratsu as run uh Echo
Lima maintaining flight number one zero zero button
thank you I just missed the middle Waypoint
Reykjavik information November one two three Victor papa is 14 degrees west maintaining
flight level one zero zero
negative this writer I'll give it a few more minutes [Music] and the weather looks better
up ahead clouds are breaking up feel the temperature increasing Edwin's decreasing everything is
getting better [Music]
Reykjavik November one two three big I'll just trying you on one two six this four five
five [Music] we were just trying Ricky because Bob on nine decimal seven but uh unable to
read so we're just reporting in on your frequency now
yeah reading you about three four out of five thank you November one
two three [Music]
there's no joy with me I firm we just uh spoke to them I want to successful five five but
we're reading you clear an hour and so we'll remain on 119.
project [Music]
I haven't got 3G why have you got 3G I don't know 75 nautical miles away from Land yeah
I've just downloaded a whole set of emails I got all my emails the thing is now you're
on Icelandic data yeah that's right I'm hoping that you think that is I think it's ten dollars
and I get a gig of data the good thing is we have 16 gallons now we're at strong headwinds
leaving Wick that's remaining over Reykjavik 16 gallons 16 gallons remaining over Reykjavik
so that's a good hour and a little bit even so that's excellent uh you know the wind settled
down uh halfway through as expected yeah yeah so we got a little time back which is nice
so we're coming over from a waypoint called Echo Lima is just the east of work the forecasted
weather was to be VFR BMC that nice clear skies so if that's true I think we'll just
descend and we'll maybe descend a little bit early so we can do some not not low level
flying but at least we could be a little bit lower to the ground as we're rooting in that's
quite nice yep then we'll just ask for the visual I think and position ourselves either
on a straight end for Runway zero one which is the preferred North Runway that plant done
plant done approach stuff another cashew yeah [Music] through the clouds yeah right there
that's definitely land right there ah there it is
breaking big control November one two three Victor Papa we'd like to cancel IFR and we're
going to descend down to around 2015 and proceed visual along the coast to Reiki November one
two three ten one two three eight what is your estimated and uh estimate for Reykjavik
will be in five zero minutes
[Music] is 1-0 miles from the southeast 2900 we are visual inbound with Julio 500.
North easterly eight knots
cocaine okay
[Music] which is refueled if Reykjavik airport after getting there from week this morning
because we've got a little bit of time on our hands this afternoon Philippe had a great
idea of just doing some low level Scenic flying which as you can see it's just stunning landscape
little waterfalls yeah little waterfalls everywhere
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awesome puffins [Music]
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oh this is incredible this landscape isn't it you don't see anything like this it's so
cool yeah
I still have a polar bear count of zero
such a freedom isn't it just to be able to do that we have now just been the most North
you've ever been yeah of course because it's north north of Reykjavik and Reykjavik is
going to be the most northern and now we've gone even further yeah of course today's been
such a big day for me it's been such a lot of first a lot of firsts
to make this happen oh man it's awesome [Music] I've always wanted to see the ice cap over
Greenland check out this video if you want to see a polar bear how is this even possible
the world is so amazing yeah well said