Ocean Crossing to Iceland! Can we Fly over the Volcano?! - Series! Ep Four
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Part 4 - Scotland to Iceland Ocean Crossing Flight over the North Atlantic in a DA62.
The biggest General Aviation flight I’ve ever flown! Austria to Canada.
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This episode is dedicated to the memory of Haraldur Diego, @VolcanoPilot.
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In this multi-part series, the largest #generalaviation project in FlightChops history, ride along with us as we team up with the Diamond Aircraft ferry crew and act as pilot flying on delivery of a new DA-62 light twin aircraft from Vienna, Austria to Diamond Aircraft’s Canadian base in London, Ontario Canada.
In this fourth episode of the series, we’re packed into survival suits in the DA62 and execute the #oceancrossing leg from Wick, Scotland to Reykjavik, Iceland, flying over the North Atlantic. Micke is following behind in the DA42. This flight was #IFR but we were above the main cloud layer for most of the journey. Arriving in Iceland we were hoping for a clear approach to fly by an active volcano prior to touching down in Reykjavik.
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During my DA62 familiarization flight at Diamond Aircraft’s base in London, Ontario prior to departing for Austria, I tested the Bose ProFlight in-ear headset; I already knew it was comfortable, but I wanted to see how the active noise canceling held up, and it was impressive - I am not surprised it is what Micke wears exclusively when flying Diamond Twins (which are admittedly quieter than most regular piston powered aircraft).
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I was waiting for this one. Thanks. Funny to hear ATC chatting in Icelandic there also and someone replying ATC with "Einar frændi" (my cousin Einar)
Loved this, but you knew that. Had to laugh when I saw Micke's "slate clap"... I've had to do that when syncing separate audio from action cam video. Someday someone will develop a micro-mixer for ambient and transmitted audio (and separate remote power) for us single-cam buccaneers. You should be glad you made this trip when you did... joining the No-Pee Club when you're over 60 is a lot harder... or softer... whatever. Looking forward to hearing "Bluie-West-One" on the next one, giving me all those great Ernie Gann memories. Hoping you're anticipating the same level of relief getting this series completed as I am of getting my airworthiness certificate. Weight and balance is done; now crunching numbers in spreadsheets and Foreflight W&B... and shoveling snow from yesterday's storm before preparing for first engine start. Heard about the loss of Volcanopilot... Godspeed, Haraldur Diego.
22 single engine ocean crossings and not a single pee. Thank you for this series, bringing back many memories. 😁
Always liked your films but this one (production) is your BEST work so far !!!
Awesome stuff Steve!!!
Great series well shot and edited. That glass cockpit is so damn impressive I want one,
What an amazing adventure
I've always wanted to visit Iceland, and I'd love to rent a plane (or hire a CFI) to do a local flight there. A good buddy spent a week there, driving around the island in a rented camper, his photos were stunning.
Condolences to all families involved in this tragic crash.
Steve really enjoying this series of videos nothing but professionalism. Safe travels
Love this series! Looking forward to the next!
Thanks sky chops haven’t had this much fun since you went to Bahama with Osama WTF.
RIP 'volcanopilot' Haraldur Diego
Great episode! Bittersweet with the news about Haraldur though ☹
Yeah, I don’t know if my bladder or kidneys are prepared for such a trip. I feel as if I always need to pee every 2 or 3 hrs. Sometimes I’m lucky and can go 6 hrs without a break, but sometimes it’s bad and I have to go every hr.
I would love to ferry a 40 or 42 from the factory. Most of my flight time is in Diamonds. Martin or Micke, do you need another experienced Diamond pilot to fly?
8 terabytes!!?? I would like to know your hard drive workflow lol.
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:)
110% 🤟🍻🍻
3:55 Ooops!
ForeFlight Planning?
How did Haruldr pass away?
super sad - link to AOPA article in description.
Why did yoy want to do RNP approach with a circling when you could be radar vectored for ILS to any runway in KEF? Does it look more cool in the video?
Rewatch the related part of the briefing. Martin explained why this is the way he does it, and no, it had nothing to do with the video.
Why getting vectors to an ILS with a final of 12.5 NM when the RNP is a straight in plus brings you down in a way that you can do a “normal” traffic pattern? This means less flight time and less fuel burn. And we landed in Reykjavik not in Keflavik 😉 Flying comes first, video last☝🏼
First 😜😂
Micke's episode is here:
ua-cam.com/video/90Wrd9OGzBw/v-deo.html
This series is really amazing, one of your absolute best! I
Controller here: Usually we ask for a readback again because something was wrong with what we heard, but sometimes we were just laughing at the joke somebody in the room just told. Either way, there is no judgement in being asked for the readback again, just like we don't feel judged when a flight crew asks for the cleared level again because one of them heard something different.
I think his FL read back was slightly garbled.
As a glider pilot who regularly flies for more then 5 hours the controlled dehydration sounds so dangerous. Usually we use the rule of thumb that if you aren't going to the bathroom once an hour you probably aren't drinking enough. And yes, high performance gliders are outfitted with a simple urination system, look it up.
Yes for sure; I should have maybe clarified that by "controlled dehydration", I meant that we were reducing, not eliminating fluid intake. The basic schedule is: no tea or coffee with in an hour of departure, have water or sports drink on hand to sip through out flight, and then have a solid ~500 mils with in an hour of landing...
I've been waiting for it to show up - definitely a bucket list item!
Hope you enjoy it!
Keep up that great airmanship !!! What a TEAM !!! 👏👏👏👏👏
My condolences for Haraldur Diego’s family from all the team of AOPA Spain
I don’t know if it is just great camera placement or not but the visibility out the front of the DA42 is incredible.
I was thinking the big clear window looked like a simulator it was so imersive
I remember flying from North Dakota to England in the 80s in a B52 to do a flyover at an air show, then back without landing using aerial refueling. We flew over Iceland doing an excercise with some fighters on the way, and also taking us over Greenland, Greenland was very much covered in ice and snow, and Iceland had lots of greenery and was beautiful which we got a laugh out of 😆 seems a similar route was just used this week but very little was funny for those crews sadly.
Great video beautifully tributed. Love from Iceland
Another great episode Steve - can tell just how much work you have put into the editing. ... all from a massive 8TB of data too, wow.
Appreciate being able to share your amazing experience, thank you.
Interesting that the ATIS (at 11:30) reported winds in knots and visibility in kilometers - even in Canada, we hear everything in Statue Miles.
If I'm not mistaken I think visibility in km is the standard across Europe.
That's standard in Europe. Vis in meters (below 5000m) or km, cloud heights in feet, speeds in knots and QNH in hPa
Congratulations, very professional assembly of clips of your flight preps to corresponding legs and radiocalls to make this fantastic and entertaining adventure movie! Best ever here on UA-cam. Thank you FlightChops, Martin and Micke!
Overcast 0 is kind of a standard, especially early in the day, at my homebase during the cooler part of the year.
Awesome series... some of the stuff I'd like to do once my PPL is done... to bring up my hours....👍
Favourite part of this series is just the briefings you have, and just seeing the process involved in the days travel.
The usual Flight Chops excellence. It's great to see Diamond showcasing their aircraft this way too. Wick is lovely from the air, I have friends there and was lucky enough to visit and drive the north coast of Scotland a few years ago. Iceland and Greenland are still on my to do list.
Really good job showing all the behind the scenes planning that go into flights like this.
Love seeing how focused the planning is juxtaposed with how much fun you guys have flying. Great production and great story-telling as well!
Nice planes. Nice flying. 😎
Back-of-tne-envelope flight planning suggests my Musketeer could do this - easily with a modest ferry tank. As a west coaster I've also looked at flying across the Pacific. There are routes and procedures across the Bering Strait (Nome to Provideniya, PAOM-UHMD), but getting to Nome in the first place is no small feat and it's insanely far from Provideniya to anywhere else. Russia is a big country and the Russian far east makes Canada look densely populated...
Round the world has been done by microlight and gyrocopter so should be doable, but now is not a good time.
very exciting....mega edit.
This is awesome, im doing my 3rd ever solo nagivation from Inverness to Kirkwall via wick
I wish that there was more time spent checking out little towns along the way, or flying into some really remote communities... i get that wasn't possible for this one... but would be cool to see one day.
I was part of a P-3C Orion crew while in the US Navy & got to go to Iceland two different times - each time being about two weeks. We were sent there from Brunswick, ME to hunt down a rare Soviet submarine that a surface ship got a whif of. Good times (this was at Keflavik).
Really amazing episode all around. even emotional. great work, really
I'm not sure where I saw notification of Mr. Diego's passing. Maybe it was "In The Hanger" with Christie. It's a sad loss when someone like that passes.
Steve, I have another request for you. I mentioned in a previous video that you used Lumix cameras, and I just made a recommendation to a friend of mine for a Lumix to replace her older Nikon Point and Shoot. Would it be possible to go over your camera gear, why you chose it and what software and stuff you use to put together these great videos.
If you ever get the opportunity, it's out of print, but you might look for Daniel V. Gallery's book called 'All Hands on Deck.' Gallery was the aircraft carrier Captain that worked out a plan to board and capture a Nazi U-Boat during WWII. However, before he was Captain of the U.S.S. Guadalcanal, he served as the Commanding Officer of a bunch of sub-hunting Catalinas flying out of Reykjavik. Fun story to read. He later goes on to detail the capture of the German U-505, which now sits on display at the Chicago Museum of Science and Technology.
I just posted this answer to another related comment of yours, but I am copy/pasting it here too:
Hey sorry for the delay replying - camera wise, I'm still shooting on a Lumix G85 that has to be pushing 5 years old now. It's still a great little camera and shoots 4k, but I am sure there are better options now, I just haven't been putting the energy into learning what is new - please let me know what you find out.
@@FlightChops Steve, it's okay. I apologize for the redundancy of my questions. As I said, I suggested that my friend buy a Lumix, since the Sony I wanted her to get was discontinued and unavailable. I knew you used them, and have always been pleased with your videography, so I figured it was pretty good.
What I was unaware of was the Lumix actually had interchangeable lenses. I was under the impression that they only made Bridge-style cameras.
Anyway, I'm really enjoying this video series. Thank you for taking us along on it.
Just heard you talking to Toledo approach as I was doing a lesson out of 1G0. Made me smile man, can't wait to see what you're planning!
Haha - that’s awesome.
I’m at Hartzell with the RV-14 for a couple days. I was excited to cram an IFR flight into a short leg to an uncontrolled field on a nice day that probably should have just been VFR 😬🤓
Check it out on Flightaware - I zigzagged because the initial plan was for RNAV 08, but I managed to get better wind data just as I was cleared for the approach, and decided to switch to RNAV 26 (so I wasn’t landing with a slight tail wind).
The smarter move would have been to just go VFR and over fly the field to assess the wind sock and then fly a tight pattern and land 🤷♂️
Beautiful work, as always. Thank you for sharing your adventures!
Great stuff: over water flight, twin DA’s with glass, volcanoes 🌋, gps nav and approach, North Atlantic ferry flight, international radio comms, landing in Iceland in IMC, and “controlled dehydration”. R.I.P. Haraldur Diego
How do you build confidence flying over oceans…planning.
Absolutely - And it doesn't hurt to fly with and learn from a solid crew like Martin and Micke :)
Start by flying over ponds, then lakes, then great lakes... :)
Steve, thank you so much for all those images from different points of view and angles.
At the end of the video, watching Micke landing, I had that thought: How tedious it is again and again to position yourself at the right place for a couple seconds of video that we "take for granted".
Not forgetting the tremendous amount of video editing.
Thank you so much for all the excellent work!
So glad you enjoyed it Richard, and I really appreciate you noticing "the work"
- I try to make the story telling transparent and seamless; for the most part, people just soak it in without a thought to how it was achieved, so it is very rewarding when I get a comment like this - because yeah, it AIN'T EASY! :).
But I enjoy doing it and thanks for watching / sharing / engaging with and supporting the content so I can keep doing it.
Love this series!
Fantastic. Love it
Keep it up man, love your videos.
Thanks, will do!
Nice job! Loving this series!
Thank you FlightChops.
Great content. Enjoying the episodes
MIcke's wide angle camera showing him and the front really shows off the amazing view you get on the window of this plane. Now, if only I had fisheye... eyes.
These are really well done.
Good show.
Nice episode, thanks! The constant mixing of Imperial and Metric units still surprises me!
How did VolcanoPilot die?
He crashed unfortunately.
For details, see the link in the description.
Great content..
great trip, THANKS
@flightchops great movie! Just wondering I made some pictures from OE-UDP on the 16th of march departing from RKV towards Greenland Given the big camera in the Cockpit which was clearly visible do you perhaps also have any footage from this one? I do have pictures for you if you are interested for the guys on this delivery flights send me a message if your interest so I can mail them to you all! :) Greets from holland
Awesome thanks - I will let the guys know - I am not sure who was flying that one
Great video. Reykjavik's an awesome town
It really is! I'm so glad to have had this opportunity to visit - I will be back!
Could we get the flight plans for flight simulator use?
is that a big line of q400's at 18:48?
it is
Both Q200 and Q400 operated domestically by Icelandair
@@Jon090 thanks. Those are some of my favorite planes to fly in. Sad to see them being phased out in the US and Canada.
I love the cut back edits.... the "rewind" to planning between segments is so good!!! Premium content!!
Where I can get these Overall?
Can you clarify what you are looking for? The whole playlist of the series you mean? It is here:
ua-cam.com/play/PLJOPFT88qcBATyHgq0bpqS0P6RxlK56OE.html
@@FlightChops Oh well, I mean the Orange Suits^^
Junior didn't need to re-confirm the waypoints to Reykiavik. He had erroneously confirmed FL 120 instead of 140 and was corrected by the controller :)
Incorrect, I said 140 the first time😉
BR junior😜
Lovely video. I'll chime in and say the reason the readback was queried was because the clearance was to maintain FL140 'from' DEVBI but initially you only read back 'at' DEVBI leaving some uncertainty as to what level you might fly after passing the point which the radio operator cannot accept. I know this because I was corrected on the same error the first time I flew oceanic.
@@MickeLang you did. There may however have been poor reception or it wasn't spoken clearly enough, leaving room for doubt. The radio operator needs to be certain of a good readback, he queried just the part concerning the flight level, from DEVBI maintain F140.
VHF reception can be spotty from the Faroe islands remote site but it's also possible that the oxygen feed may have interfered with your transmission.
Great video, thanks for sharing :)
2 thumbs up!!