Very cool. :-coolThe Conquest is a pretty tough bird. Very reliable.Rob

I am not sure if he has done it or not. Doing it for real in a Cessna 337 is also in my link, posted above.Rhett

I did give Avsim first billing - told him to scroll up.And I am very concerned about the SOH team. They've shown some great "outside the box" thinking the last two years. Teams following the same routes gets a little boring.A couple fewer crashes would have put them very close to winning.And SOH definitely gets the award for the best / most used team repaints and having the most fun on-line.

The Conquest 441...Still one of my favorite GA planes!

Interesting! Great details. I did not realize you could do that in real life. I'll have to remember that one. I might even print it out.RH

this site chronicles many RTW flights:http://www.earthrounders.com/index.html

My understanding is ferry pilots fly GA across to Europe sometimes. If you see a Cessna or a Beech in Europe, it probably wasn't shipped there--it probably was flown there. If you read my link to the Cessna 337 article, above, the article tells how those two pilots "flew a more northerly route" than most GA pilots fly across the Atlantic. To me that means most GA pilots fly to Narsarsuaq, Greenland and on across that way, because those 2 guys flew well north of Narsarsuaq.Rhett

Narsarsuaq has some advantages - but also some distinct disadvantages when compared to Sondrestrom - the primary alternative.Many people want to be closer to the ocean than over the middle of the ice cap for most of the flight to Iceland.Narsarquaq can be a horrible place to land safely / takeoff in poor weather - and it's a visual landing.Narsarquaq is also much more isolated and expensive than Sondrestrom is there is a repair needed or they have to wait out weather for a couple days.But airplanes with 1,200nm legs can take the St John's Newfoundland to Azores route - which many prefer.

Thanks for the info about Narsarsuaq. Narsarsuaq is the only stopover I've used in FS when flying GIUK to Europe, but I will have to try Sondrestrom (is that the same as Sondre Stromfjord? If so, I know of it).Rhett

>Narsarsuaq has some advantages - but also some distinct>disadvantages when compared to Sondrestrom - the primary>alternative.>>Many people want to be closer to the ocean than over the>middle of the ice cap for most of the flight to Iceland.>>Narsarquaq can be a horrible place to land safely / takeoff in>poor weather - and it's a visual landing.>>Narsarquaq is also much more isolated and expensive than>Sondrestrom is there is a repair needed or they have to wait>out weather for a couple days.>>But airplanes with 1,200nm legs can take the St John's>Newfoundland to Azores route - which many prefer.Have been in Greenland and Narsarsuaq. Great place. A very small town/village with a small shop, hotel, hostel, harbor, airport and a few houses. Nothing else. If you know the ICAO-code for Narsarsuaq, it's a historial code. ICAO for Narsarsuaq is BGBW. BW stands for Bluie West, and was the name for the airport during WW2. A few kilometres away from the airport, a large hospital was build. Many woonded US-soldiers from Europe landed here, and was getting care on the hospital. After WW2 the base lost it's function, and the goverment cleared the airport and hospital. Many years later the goverment i Greenland found out, that the place where the base had been, was great when they was looking for a place to build a new airport covering Southern Greenland. It's was rebuild and the small town grow up near the only road in the town. This road was used to connect the airport and hospital. But now it's mainly tourists and the people in the town that uses the road. Tourists mostly because the best and most simple way to get to the inland ice. This is because the ice is only 10 km's from the city, and therefore the nearest place in Greenland where you can come very close to the ice.Another thing I saw in this topic, was the windering about why Greenland is called Greenland and Iceland is called Iceland. I've heard this story (don't know if it's true).The viking (Erik the Red) who "found" Iceland, was rejeceted from Norway, and was sailing to the west. He saw the big ice cover, Iceland has on it's Eastern part. Therefore he called it Iceland. He made a new colony on Iceland. Some years later Erik was also rejeceted from Iceland because he had killed someone important person. Therefore he was sailing tot he wast again, because he had herad that there was some land out there. He found a green land, where his sheeps and cows could get food, and where it was possible to settled down. Therefore he called it Grrenland. He didn't know that 99% of the country was covered with ice.A few years ago some experts foudn some old building just on the other side of the fjord, where Narsarsuaq is placed today. They found a few farms and even a church. They had foudn, what many people belive is the remains of the farm that Erik the Red build when he arrivled to Greenland. The church was confusing them, but they belive they have found the answer. Eriks wife is said, that she was converted to Christianity. So she had decided to build a church a little away form the town she was living in, so she could have the religion for herself.I Hope it's okay with this off-topic reply.Sounds like a good and long tour you got there, Jim.

Interesting stuff! Thanks for the post. Overall it was fun making the flight and I learned a little bit about a part of the world that doesn't get a lot of attention.Jim

Another theory I have heard about Erik the Red is that he called Greenland "greenland" because he wanted more people to settle there, and "greenland" sounds more inviting to potential colonists.I like these kinds of threads because of all the great info in them. When I did a GA RTW flight, I used Narsarsuaq as a stopover.Rhett

>Interesting stuff! Thanks for the post. Overall it was fun>making the flight and I learned a little bit about a part of>the world that doesn't get a lot of attention.>>Jim>In the last 10-15 years Greenland has got more and more tourists each year. It's one of the few countries where you can't drive between the cities and towns. You either have to sail or fly. Either in helicopter or if it's longer distances in one of the DHC-7 Greenlandair have in service.