Flyin'Dutch' wrote:I'd love to do it but a nice oil burning King Air would be on the MEL- I suspect the view from the front would be the same and my blood pressure could not cope with anything less I fear.
Once your out of gliding range of the coast it doesn't matter anymore.
One year I was in a Kingair following a twin commander going Glasgow - Reykjavik then on to the USA, when I landed I asked Sven who was the handling agent in Reykjavik, has he carried on to Greenland, no was the answer, they are still searching for the aircraft and pilot off Vestmannaeyjar.
When we fuelled in Glasgow he decided not to fill the tanks with expensive fuel and got caught out by strong headwinds at altitude, made three attempts to land on the gravel strip at Vestmannaeyjar but ran out fuel doing so, ditched about a mile of the coast but never found even though the SAR helicopter was waiting.