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[–] CreateProblems@corndog.social 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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!

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g189967-d1099110-Reviews-or80-Tjoruhusid-Isafjordur_Westfjords_Region.html

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.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 14 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)
[–] caboose2006@lemmy.ca 13 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

What is the missed approach procedure for this airport?

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 29 points 18 hours ago
[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Should be about sea level.

(The top of the cliff is, assuming Google maps is halfway accurate, about 600 meters)

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago

Left! Immediately!

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 63 points 1 day ago (10 children)

It's Ísafjörður (ice fjord).

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

Username checks out

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

What did I not fix?

Edit: Never mind, figured it out.

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 day ago

I've played enough KSP to know that's a good location to crash.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What time is sunrise this time of year?

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 28 points 18 hours ago
[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Welcome to the Night's watch

[–] NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 19 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

But after you land, where do you go

[–] logi@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 31 points 23 hours ago

Isafjordur town. It's like a mile up the road.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago
[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

The aircraft backs up using thrust reversers

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 3 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Usually you do a 180 rather than reversing blind.

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

I love smacking an unmovable object. Especially one that jiggles.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 4 points 18 hours ago

Cool as hell.... Would drink a warm cup of coffee to it...

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or land when the wind shifts direction.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

Or land when the wind isn’t shifting directions.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 day ago (8 children)
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[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 points 19 hours ago

It's the Antarctic ice wall!

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