Jay Honeck wrote:
> > i want
> > more stories from steven. he never did tell about the "greatest scare
> > ever" but i guess that was the tank issue. he needs to loosen-up that
> > keyboard after calling everybody he knows and getting over the
> > hangover (well, i certainly would!)
>
> Yeah, Steven is a man of few words lately -- right when we want him to
> yack for hours!
>
> C'mon, man, tell us what scared you in the middle of the Atlantic!
> Don't leave us hanging!
Thanks to NW_Pilot and Jay for a fascinating
report (so far?:-).
I happen to know the Glasgow area quite well and
wondered if he had used Glasgow Airport (GLA)
(pretty busy with scheduled flights) or the quieter
and probably cheaper Glasgow Pestwick (PIK/EGPK)
which is only 30 or so miles away.
I looked up Google Earth to see if I could match the
photo against the ground and it turns out that
it was Glasgow Airport.
In case anyone is interested here are the google earth
co-ordinates of one of the photos on Jay's site.
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/NWPilots-Transatlantic/Day%208%20-%20Leaving_Glasglow.JPG
If you have google earth you can save the following
as *.kml file and load it into Google Earth.
I hope that there is not to much trouble with
wrapped lines or anything.
#### < begin snip > ####
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0">
<Placemark>
<name>NW_Pilots view of Glasgow Airport</name>
<LookAt>
<longitude>-4.423881749123898</longitude>
<latitude>55.85429330575573</latitude>
<range>1091.991733147573</range>
<tilt>72.54937055960147</tilt>
<heading>35.06338183176118</heading>
</LookAt>
<styleUrl>root://styleMaps#default+nicon=0x307+hicon=0x317</styleUrl>
<Point>
<coordinates>-4.423881749123898,55.85429330575574,0</coordinates>
</Point>
</Placemark>
</kml>
#### < end snip > ####
The sports stadium in the foreground is the
ground of the (relatively) famous Scottish
Football (soccer) team St Mirren at Love
Street in Paisley. Luckily this enabled me
to identify the location quite quickly.