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[–] CreateProblems@corndog.social 4 points 1 day 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 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] CreateProblems@corndog.social 2 points 18 hours ago

Dang, we definitely missed that restaurant! I'll add it to the list because I'm determined to go back to Iceland some day.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 63 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's Ísafjörður (ice fjord).

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago

Username checks out

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

What did I not fix?

Edit: Never mind, figured it out.

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Icelanding spelling seems like a nightmare. Not like English is any better tho

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The only good thing about English spelling is I don't have to worry about diacritic marks

[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes, dozens of phonetic "rules", that may or may not apply, for dozens of reasons, is definitely a better system.

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[–] Presently42@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

Its actually not even that hard. You have to learn a few extra characters but they make sense.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 29 points 2 days ago

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

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)

What is the missed approach procedure for this airport?

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day 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 30 points 1 day ago
[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day 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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day ago

Left! Immediately!

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[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Welcome to the Night's watch

[–] NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

But after you land, where do you go

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 31 points 2 days ago

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

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The aircraft backs up using thrust reversers

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Usually you do a 180 rather than reversing blind.

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[–] logi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 16 points 2 days 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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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day 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.

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or land when the wind shifts direction.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Or land when the wind isn’t shifting directions.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] yimby@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What time is sunrise this time of year?

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago
[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I'd hate to land there when it's foggy

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 day ago

It's the Antarctic ice wall!

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