In November 2018, I was part of a crew tasked with relocating a King Air B100 from Afghanistan to New Hampshire via Greenland and the North Atlantic via the Blue Spruce Route, a distance of nearly 8,000 nautical miles. Here is what we saw.
Notes - Our autopilot's NAV mode was inop, so we had to use HDG mode the entire flight... hence the slight left/right fishtailing. And the battery on the GoPro was limited, so the middle of most legs had to be cut out.
Many thanks to the good folks at Aeroptic... you know who you are.
00:00 - Dubai, UAE (OMDW)
00:25-01:30 - Persian Gulf
01:40 - Kuwait City, Kuwait (OKBK)
02:00-02:30 - Saudi Arabia
02:45 - Wadi Rum, Jordan
02:56 - Aqaba, Jordan (OJAQ)
03:20 - Gulf of Aqaba
03:30 - Sinai Peninsula
03:55 - Suez Canal on right
04:15 - Cairo, Egypt
04:30 - Alexandria, Egypt
04:40 - Crete
05:00 - Milos
05:20 - Athens, Greece (LGAV)
05:40 - Gulf of Corinth
05:45 - Adriatic Sea
(Not pictured, ran out of battery) - Nurnberg, Germany (EDDN)
05:55 - Netherlands
06:15 - United Kingdom
07:35 - Glasgow, Scotland (EGPF)
08:50 - Iceland
09:12 - Reyjavik, Iceland (BIRK)
10:20 - Greenland
10:40 - Narsarsuaq, Greenland (BGBW)
11:10 - Labrador Sea
12:30 - Goose Bay, Newfoundland, Canada (CYYR)
15:00 - Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA (KPSM)
15:22 - Nashua, New Hampshire, USA (KASH)
7 дек 2021
