Delivery Flight: Toulouse to Yellowknife
N76VY has rolled off the ATR line at Toulouse-Blagnac, and it's ours as soon as someone brings it home to Yellowknife. ATRs bound for the Canadian North don't cross by ship: they fly the northern ferry route, island to island, in hops a turboprop can manage. Collect it at LFBO and take it west through Jersey, Edinburgh and the Faroes to Keflavík, across the Greenland ice cap to Kangerlussuaq, over Davis Strait to Iqaluit, across Hudson Bay to Rankin Inlet, and on to Yellowknife.
Mind the westerlies: every leg flies into the prevailing wind. Keflavík to Kangerlussuaq is 716 NM over the ice cap, the longest of the trip, so plan the fuel before the payload. Vágar sits in a narrow valley with weather of its own, and the Arctic legs have few alternates. Any leg you fly counts, but only reaching the next checkpoint moves the delivery on.
- Aircraft
- N76VY ATR ATR-72-212A (600) (AT76)
- Origin
- LFBO
- Now at
- BGSF
- Status
- active
- EGJJ
- EGPH
- EKVG
- BIKF
- BGSF
- CYFB
- CYRT
- CYZF
File in SimBrief ↗File on VATSIM ↗File on IVAO ↗
Crew
- EmergencyButterfshub
- EmergencyButterbutterlog
Legs
| # | Route | Pilot | Distance | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LFBO → EGJJ | EmergencyButterbutterlog | 366 NM | 03 Nov 01:07Z |
| 2 | EGJJ → EGPH | EmergencyButterfshub | 453 NM | 03 Nov 21:29Z |
| 3 | EGPH → EKVG | EmergencyButterbutterlog | 386 NM | 05 Nov 01:57Z |
| 4 | EKVG → BIKF | EmergencyButterfshub | 461 NM | 06 Nov 01:33Z |
| 5 | BIKF → BGSF | EmergencyButterfshub | 1193 NM | 08 Nov 01:20Z |