That's why diesels are so interesting (and the fuel price of course). They
use regular Jet A-1.

http://www.smaengines.com/
http://www.zoche.de/

Bert Reuling

"Jesper Rex" wrote in message
...
Big John.

The 172 is hangared at the local airport, together with the Dash 7's
and Sikorsky S-61's(Like the one that picked you up)

Unfortunately I don't have a Pilots License. But a collegue has a
license and goes flying quite often. Also I have been flying very
often with my father for about 25 years, he handled the flying, I
handled the navigation(That was before GPS)

The 172 is operated by the local flying club, biggest problem up here
for private planes is availability of fuel, most airports only have
Jet fuel, as all commercial aircraft up here is Turbine or Jet
powered.

Happy flying from Greenland
Jesper Rex


On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:08:38 -0500, Big John
wrote:

Jasper

The one that slid in on the ice was a fluke. Bird was trimmed up prior
to ejection and when engine quit a couple of minutes later (ran last
tank dry) it just glided in circles down to the ice.

The cargo pod (only on one bird) was underneath the aircraft and any
wheels up landing, even intentional, would wipe out or tear off.

One pilot broke his elbow on ejection when it hit the canopy rail in
bird after canopy was blown. This was a tight fit with heavy winter
jacket and was a know problem.

Was picked up by a civilian Danish chopper (big 20 passenger +/-
Sikorsky) about an hour after ejection. Flew back to base and was
dark.

We crossed the VOR on a heading of 090 and then ejected. Was told that
by doing this would not land in any open water (short life span at
that time of year).

All in all we were very lucky to make it.

Do you hanger your 172 or tie down and use arctic procedures to start,
etc.?

Big John

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:26:54 -0200, Jesper Rex
wrote:

Yes that is about right 150-180 Nautical Miles south of Sondre
Stroemfjord.(About 2 hours with a Cessna 172)

I prefer to fly in and out of Greenland using Sonder Stromfjord, as it
os only closed for flight 3-5 days a year.
Narsarsuaq in Southern Greenland is closed far more, maybe 20-30 days
a year.

From one of my friends I have learned that several of the birds have
been found, or I should say, the remains of the birds. I haven't heard
about the Cargo Pod

Happy Flying from a Back Seat pilot ;-)
Jesper Rex
E-Mail: (Remove the "_" before the @ to mail me)

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