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After a really nice visit to Inverness, Scotland we took off this morning to Paris, France. Our flight plans were filed and accepted last night so we expected very few changes this morning. Tracy wanted to practice writing clearances down so she called in for us and the tower read back a list of airways without any waypoints. It was a little weird but after looking it all up on the...

It's a crime I know, only one day! But when your itinerary includes twenty seven countries- a day is about all we have time for. Our driver Mike picked us up at our hotel this morning and showed us around his home- Inverness, and the surrounding Scottish countryside. It really wasn't a tour- it reminded me more of when we visit the "rellies" in Australia, and they take us out for a...

We found out late yesterday, after returning from our tour of the Icelandic countryside, that the Norwegian air traffic controllers have gone on strike and all of the airports in Norway are closed. No flight to Norway on this trip! These things happen, so we simply changed our destination to Scotland. I say "simply" for us, but it was the home office at Air Journey back in Florida,...

While visiting Iceland, we were fortunate to have the opportunity to visit Icelandic Control center. They handle all the airplane traffic flying over as well as in Iceland. In fact their airspace extends all the way to the North Pole and encompasses over 5,000,000 sq km. They handle this from a very modern facility at the Reykjavik airport. When things are busy, up to fifteen...

Centuries before Columbus set sail from Spain, the Viking explorer Leif Ericson discovered two large islands during his voyages across a great northern sea, on his way to what would later be known as Canada. He decided to name them according to a marketing strategy. The larger island was rocky and inhospitable for the most part with a center consisting of a vast frozen wasteland-...

May 16th, we're enroute currently flying a 700 mile leg from Goose Bay to Nuuk, formerly known as "Gothard" Greenland, the country's capital city. Our plans to fly direct to Reykjavik and over-fly Greenland ended with a last minute change in the forecast weather; "critical" was the word from the tower at the Reykjavik airport. After much debate amongst our Air Journey group, and a...

Goose Bay is about seven hundred miles south of the Arctic circle; located along Newfoundland's northern most edge along the rocky banks of the Labrador Sea. The airport was originally built during WWII as a point from which fighter planes and bombers could be ferried across the North Atlantic to the European theatre; many of those ferry pilots were women. Later it served SAC-...

Yep, made it up to Quebec today and met up with the rest of our group. The guys at Atlas Aviation Center in Portsmouth, NH fixed our fuel probe issue and had our airplane ready to go by 8:00 am this morning. What a terrific team with world class (and fast!) service. We owe you guys! The flight up to Quebec was in clear sunny skies at 21,000 and we had an uneventful flight (yeah!).