I thought this looked familiar!
We drove past this airport on our way to Dynjandi waterfall - I saw a video of this waterfall online and it largely inspired our entire trip to Iceland (plus cheap direct flights in the peak of Icelandic tourism in the beforefore times, pre-COVID.)
That afternoon we also went and visited the Icelandic Sea Monster Museum in Bíldudalur.
But hands down, our favorite part of our trip was visiting a hot spring spa that also specializes in baking rye bread 🤤
We spent half of our trip exploring the Westfjords, I’d love to go back to Iceland someday to do more exploring in other parts of the country. And to go back to Laugarvatn Fontana!
I hope you didn’t miss the amazing fish restaurant there, Tjoruhusid. This restaurant quite literally converted me into a seafood lover. Check out the reviews on it, if you haven’t heard of it.
I’d go back just to eat here, haha. I spent a few months in the Westfjords. I’d love to go back. I was out in the middle of nowhere, though, most of the time.
Dang, we definitely missed that restaurant! I’ll add it to the list because I’m determined to go back to Iceland some day.
What is the missed approach procedure for this airport?
I checked on google maps and it wouldn’t be a problem. About 1km away, there’s a recycling station and a cemetery with lots of room.
Don’t
Pull the flight yoke back like you’re trying to relocate it to the aft part of the cargo compartment and gun it. The air definitely looks cold and dense enough to do some impressive things with your aircraft, but I wonder what the elevation is.
Should be about sea level.
(The top of the cliff is, assuming Google maps is halfway accurate, about 600 meters)
Left! Immediately!
Not missed approach, but Wikipedia talks about an aircraft that had an engine explode on takeoff from here. The pilot decided that it would be better to fly to the next airport over rather than attempt to land here.
I’ve played enough KSP to know that’s a good location to crash.
Welcome to the Night’s watch
But after you land, where do you go
Isafjordur town. It’s like a mile up the road.
Along that road out the bottom of the picture around the bottom of the fjord to the town of Ísafjörður which is not far out of view on the left.
For a dip
The aircraft backs up using thrust reversers
Usually you do a 180 rather than reversing blind.
Don’t runways that are set up for the 180 have a bulge at one end?
Depends on the size of the plane. For bigger jets, yes, but for smaller planes the width of runway you need to do a u-turn is about the same as the width you need to safely land of a gust pushes the plane a bit sideways.
uwu
I thought you were going to say backs up then takes off again
Bet it’s windy
It can be. I had to wait until the next day for a flight before because it was way too dangerous to take off.
The plane was shaking all over the place on the runway. It’s only little propeller things that go there. Think it was a Fokker 50.
Love myself a cool, arctic breeze
Steep hills right by the ocean definitely do tell a clear story, don’t they? Just the sort of place where air smacks into an unmovable object and creates swirls.
I love smacking an unmovable object. Especially one that jiggles.
Looks tough to go around
What time is sunrise this time of year?
Feb. 12.
I landed there in MSFS!
ICAO for the lazy?
BIIS
Many thanks
I don’t remember, but it is a landing challenge.
Was it scary?
Luckily crashing in the simulator does not hurt :)
Oh I see! MSFS stands for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
MSFTFS
Cool as hell… Would drink a warm cup of coffee to it…
I’d hate to land there when it’s foggy
It’s the Antarctic ice wall!
Enlighten me as to why this airport is equited as opposed to using aircraft that can land on water
Likely for the same reasons that any airport near a body of water is built. Layman’s guesses would be ease of embarking/disembarking, less likely to be affected by weather, standard airplanes are more common…
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a modern plane that can land on water that carried more than a handful of passengers.
Largest I know of are some Twin Otters in Canada have floats. 16-20 people, but I’d call them exceptional and a Cessna caravan type is a typical large float plane. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-6_Twin_Otter
There you go. We’re just not flying the Spruce Goose and I’m guessing for cargo reasons if for no other, you want to be able to land large planes.
Left hand pattern.
