It's Ísafjörður (ice fjord).
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Icelanding spelling seems like a nightmare. Not like English is any better tho
The only good thing about English spelling is I don't have to worry about diacritic marks
Yes, dozens of phonetic "rules", that may or may not apply, for dozens of reasons, is definitely a better system.
You do sometimes have to worry about that weird g without the leg, though. But it's normal to them, so they don't guestion it. :^)
Slowly learning Icelandic, with vague intentions of moving there. Icelandic is fairly phonetically written: most letters produce the same sound no matter their location. By comparison, spoken English has changed drastically from it's written equivalent: there have been spelling reforms in Icelandic, and basically none in English
Like spanish or ukrainian then, nice. Well, Spanish has some phonetic variations for some letters, but the rules are static and can be learnt. Once you know it you know how to pronounce any new word. English is a nightmare I agree.
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Its actually not even that hard. You have to learn a few extra characters but they make sense.
Welcome to the Night's watch
I've played enough KSP to know that's a good location to crash.
But after you land, where do you go
Isafjordur town. It's like a mile up the road.
For a dip
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.
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
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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
What is the missed approach procedure for this airport?
Don't
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.
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!
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I'd hate to land there when it's foggy
What time is sunrise this time of year?
Feb. 12.
Left hand pattern.
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.
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Cool as hell.... Would drink a warm cup of coffee to it...
It's the Antarctic ice wall!
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