Flying around the Candian Arctic
planedriver
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Hi all, This is my first post. All the kinks are worked out. The photos are of the 2 years of my life "on the job" as a Medivac / Charter Pilot in the Canadian Arctic. In Canada "up north" is where you get your start in aviation after you got your new shiny licenses from " down south" . For me, I wanted to go far north. I ended up in Yellowknife NWT, and thats where it all started for me.
They were all taken with a little 5MP compact so please excuse the quality.
Enjoy the views that not to many get to see.
Cheers,
Rob
DASH 7 in the non setting Sun.
The biz end of the DASH 7 departing Yellowknife
The back end of the DASH 7 carrying fuel up to the remote Arctic communities. What fun it is hand loading these at 400lb's ea. This was the Fourth trip that day if i remember.
2am 60nm east of Resolute Bay. One of the remote communities on Earth.
One of two hotels in Resolute Bay. At $210 a night it's the classy joint. Hot food, place to sleep, away from the Polar Bears.
Colorful tundra with Mould Bay Environmental Weather Station behind. If you watch LOST, this place is like the "hatch"
Child's grave from 1959 at Mould Bay Weather Station
Leaving Resolute Bay
11pm returning to Yellowknife with a nice sun-un-set.
5 year old sea ice.
Sunset from altitude.
In the summer moths the sun never sets. See.
My Chariot. The Beechcraft Super King Air B200. The world's most popular Medivac Aircraft. Great on short off strips, like a little airliner inside.
Somewhere between Edmonton and Yellowknife after an all night medivac.
Short final into Lutsel'Ke NWT, amazing fishing here in the East Arm of Great Slave Lake.
Calm winters day in Wekweti NWT.
Diavik Diamond Mine strip.
Yours truly getting fuel in Goa Haven Nunavut. It was -48C that day.
Kugaaruk Nunavut. A very cold and windy day.
Crossing over Hudson's Bay @ 27'000ft. Over allot of nowhere.
Iqaluit, Baffin Island, Nunavut. The largest city in the Eastern Arctic. To this day the coldest I have ever been exposed to. It was -47C before the 30 knot wind chill. Altogether it was around -65C. Note the drifts over the runway.
They were all taken with a little 5MP compact so please excuse the quality.
Enjoy the views that not to many get to see.
Cheers,
Rob
DASH 7 in the non setting Sun.
The biz end of the DASH 7 departing Yellowknife
The back end of the DASH 7 carrying fuel up to the remote Arctic communities. What fun it is hand loading these at 400lb's ea. This was the Fourth trip that day if i remember.
2am 60nm east of Resolute Bay. One of the remote communities on Earth.
One of two hotels in Resolute Bay. At $210 a night it's the classy joint. Hot food, place to sleep, away from the Polar Bears.
Colorful tundra with Mould Bay Environmental Weather Station behind. If you watch LOST, this place is like the "hatch"
Child's grave from 1959 at Mould Bay Weather Station
Leaving Resolute Bay
11pm returning to Yellowknife with a nice sun-un-set.
5 year old sea ice.
Sunset from altitude.
In the summer moths the sun never sets. See.
My Chariot. The Beechcraft Super King Air B200. The world's most popular Medivac Aircraft. Great on short off strips, like a little airliner inside.
Somewhere between Edmonton and Yellowknife after an all night medivac.
Short final into Lutsel'Ke NWT, amazing fishing here in the East Arm of Great Slave Lake.
Calm winters day in Wekweti NWT.
Diavik Diamond Mine strip.
Yours truly getting fuel in Goa Haven Nunavut. It was -48C that day.
Kugaaruk Nunavut. A very cold and windy day.
Crossing over Hudson's Bay @ 27'000ft. Over allot of nowhere.
Iqaluit, Baffin Island, Nunavut. The largest city in the Eastern Arctic. To this day the coldest I have ever been exposed to. It was -47C before the 30 knot wind chill. Altogether it was around -65C. Note the drifts over the runway.
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Thanks for sharing.
---Bruce---
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Thanks for posting these.
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Cheers,
Rob
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Hey, your sites great. How so you get your home page like that. Thats exactly what im trying to do.
Cheers
Rob.
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No Point, where I work now we have 65 CRJ's. I fly a DASH 8 now and love every minute of it.