LOL...I had a handheld GPS with me so I captured the track...It wasn't pretty. Very close call, but I didn't know that until much later. I seem to remember the number 200'. There's quite a bit of +- in that because altitude resolution is the lease accurate, especially inside a metal box. So it could have been closer. I remember overhearing the PF and FO discussing the event the next day. FO was young and especially disturbed about it, as were all the pax of course. Wine tastes better now...colours are more vivid etc etc
Went flying to a randomly chosen spot in Flight simulator 2020, to test for ability to plan an emergency landing anywhere. This was the nearest airport to land into. :D
Nov 2013 I was pax on a PC-12 that did exactly that...it was at night and very windy and we hit by a tail wind after crossing the threshold. Pilot applied full power and hard left....AND I MEAN A WICKED BANK ANGLE.After a minutes or so it was obvious that we missed the mountain at ten o'clock and I figured we were heading back to Pond...but oh no...he decided to try again.
So from what I've read a bunch of Inuit were initially just relocated and forced to live up here back in the 1950s to assert Canadian sovereignty over the high Arctic?
@@pilot_remm It looks like one of those places that can be both the most beautiful/ awe inspiring and worst at the same time, if that makes sense. I just searched online for the current temperature up there, it says -23 F and it's supposed to stay in the -30s F for the rest of the week. I've been in temperatures of around -20 F once during the extremely cold winter of 2015 but that was a rarity. I can't imagine having these as simply average temperatures in the winter.
For someone who’s been living and breathing in Eastern Canada most of my life, I know I won’t stand a day being in the great north because it’s so cold and isolated I’ll get depressed very quick
