Lefty ferrying a new SR22T back to the UK

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Re: Lefty ferrying a new SR22T back to the UK

By Lockhaven
 Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:34 pm #1628539
Merlin83b wrote:
Lockhaven wrote:One my last delivery flights going via Iqaluit in a turbine Malibu the tower advised the wind was 60Kts across the runway :pale: having come right across Canada diversion options were limited so I requested permission to land on the taxiway that was into wind, and the tower approved it :thumleft:


Looking on Google, Iqaluit doesn't have much in the way of taxiways, where did you land?!


On the high speed exit midway along the runway leading to the main apron. The aircraft was a converted piston Malibu with 600HP PT6 fitted using a 4 blade black mac prop, it could stop on a sixpence.
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