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meteorological office on the portable satphone.
While difficult to hear clearly, the
words were unmistakable: " A blizzard is
forming across southwest Greenland moving
northwest. " Another call in hour two
revealed Nuuk was now showing snow
and 400-foot ceilings. But our alternate,
Sondrestrom, was still showing high ceilings
and good weather. At hour three, Nuuk was
down to 300 feet, below minimums, in heavy
snow. Nuuk also has a short, 2,500-footlong
runway up on a plateau like an aircraft
carrier. The Caravan is no slouch for runway
performance, but the ceilings below
minimums, heavy snow, and short runway
were adding up to a really poor landing
environment.
Four hours into the flight, there was no
question of our intentions. We remained
at FL190, sipping fuel above the weather;
and crossing Nuuk NDB, we turned north
toward Sondrestrom, landing just 15 minutes
before official closing time and a hefty
$1,500 after-hours surcharge.
The normally orderly Sondrestrom
airport that day was a little discombobulated.
Rather than a small crutch of airport
workers meeting us for formalities, we selfparked
without any welcome committee.
After a few moments, we were approached
and informed that there had been an accident
on the ice cap and a medevac helicopter
was en route with the injured pilot. Then, we
watched as a stretcher was unloaded with
the pilot of a Piaggio P.180 and loaded into
a waiting Beechcraft King Air. (For more on
that accident, see " A Crossing Gone Wrong, "
July 2015 AOPA Pilot, Turbine Edition.)
We did not fuel and continue on toward
Iceland that night, and thus avoided the
$1,500 after-hours charge. We also declined
the $1,200 per night hangar option. In the
morning, we enjoyed a karmic $1,800 aircraft
deicing event for our frugality the night
before. The next stop, Keflavik (BIKF), was
an uneventful leg in day-VFR conditions,
and this was my final destination. I would
depart on an airliner back to Seattle, while
the owner of the aircraft continued on to his
destination of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
To this day, I have never regretted treating
the North Atlantic with respect and
learning from the weather maps, the forecasts,
and the actual weather observed on
each and every crossing. Having a backup
plan for your backup plan is not such a bad
idea in this part of the world.
AOPA
TRAVIS HOLLAND is president of Shepherd
Aero in Bellingham, Washington.
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