Hello, dear readers,
we are in Yellowknife, the Canadian Northern Territories and Hay River is calling right now:
Thanx again to this great tool:
http://www.gcmap.com/
Sunday, 18.08.2013
YZF (Yellowknife Airport - Som-ba Kay Miffinga)
YHY (Hay River/Merlyn Carter Airport - Katlodehe Miffinga)
Service J4 168 operated by Buffalo Airways
Scheduled: 16.30 // 17.15
And one more place is counted now on the new airports map, YZF and no. 257:
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The first 200 places:
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I´am so sorry, no A320 to show here!.
These company operates it´s own terminal, in walking distance from the main terminal along the First Air cargo ramp till yes, Buffalo Airways
Speechless to say the least and well signed to say the least again
Is there really a sign needed this way?
Check-In is swiftly done by a young guy and he also cashed the money from the credit card account.
No online booking engine with Buffalo and the flight is also not listed via the usual dealers.
As simple as it is, send a mail with you´re preffered flight details and receive a nice answer not that long thereafter. Everything is secured, pay you´re ticket at the desk when you fly!.
Life isn´t cheap here in the Northern Territories, you know, the fare with this service is 115.00 Euro´s.
What means DC-3 on schedule?.
No idea, absolutely no idea!.
It seems this is the new abbreviation for the A320, or not?.
Further for a view around the facilities
Ah, there is a lounge here, but only for the pilot´s!
Lovely equipment on the apron
All types of historic aircraft
The way to place you´re bags
Tindi, I don´t know why, but I like this name, on taxi inbound
And Tindi on taxi outbound
I was in contact with the company by mail and informed them about our visit and our special interest and what happens soon thereafter?.
Joe, the owner himself welcomes us by handshake, ah, you are the guys from Germany and introduces some of the staff around.
He will fly us to Hay River and he also introduced the young woman doing the FO job on our flight.
And he also offered us to go early for the plane with the FO, follow her preparations and do some pictures.
Yes, that´s the way I like.
C-GWIR is an A320, sorry, my mistake, is an Douglas DC-3, ok, such a plane don´t really need an individual name!. The first adventure for me on this type.
Built in 1942 for the USAAF, spend some time with the Czech and also the French Airforce before it goes civil in the US and later on in Canada
Cabin and the office
Seats en detail
The spacious cabin
Joe confirmed that we should take our seats, first row of course, 1B/C for departure and he will call us again
Great place to work here
Now that´s what I call well used
Up for the blue, sorry, green!
Engines running
4.15 pm, 15 minutes ahead to schedule. Well, the load is 100%, all the pax are here, what should you wait for?.
45 minutes by "Buffalo", 18 degrees and a partly cloudy sky.
There is a young guy at work in the cabin, engineer style clothes, acting as cabin crew.
Service is cookies and free drinks.
Taxi with some more interesting equipment all around
Bye now to the "Som-ba Kay Miffinga", at least for today and also "Yellowknife Airport".
Just departed from the same runway "One-Six" like arrivals yesterday, but in the other direction and for a view to the safety card
No smoking, no problem!
Just for the case, the manuals
Cabin and wing details
Some clouds left hand side
Above the Great Slave Lake at 4000 feet
Everything well signed
This way for Hay River
The place to be on the DC-3
Some more office details
Nice weather right hand side
Everything functional to say the least
Thunderstorms left hand side
Cruising above the clouds
Swedish?
Rain good to notice in the distance
Well, in our direction
Keep us clear, please
Well, for the airport this way
Heavy rain started on finals
And it´s good to see the runway ahead
Here it is
This is "Hay River/Merlyn Carter Airport" or also known as "Katlodehe Miffinga" and we are on short finals for the 1829 meters runway "One-Four". 5.00 pm is 15 minutes ahead to schedule and the temperature is 18 degrees, not to talk about the rain
Fresh air this way and soon thereafter the thunderstorm is gone for somewhere else!
Some more interesting planes parked here
Proud to be in Canada and the rainbow fit´s
More nice chat on the ground around the plane and we don´t even need a cab for the hotel.
No, the crew shuttle was offered to drive us together with the FO, superwell done, to the Ptarmigan Inn.
The place to spend the night is swiftly selected with simply nothing else on offer here.
Hay River or also Xátł'odehchee is located at the southern shore of the Great Slave Lake and is with as few as 3600 inhabitants the second largest community all around the Northern Territories.
The "Hub of the North" is the northernmost point in Canada and also all around the continent, connected with the
railway system and is also yearround reachable via the MacKenzie Highway from the south of Canada.
This is important with lot´s of local communities only served by iceroads during the winter time and also only to reach by plane in summer
The most modern equipment here
The main street where you walk up and down within a couple of minutes and lucky us, a convenience store is open to serve some real Canadian food, chips and coke for dinner.
And well, you are a "Persona non grata" without a pickup, without a big pickup here!
There is some sleep to catch up, what we are doing right now, dreaming about some more reliable A320 flying tomorrow morning like this way!
Do not forget the conclusions:
1.)Canadian North YEG-YZF: What an experience on these classic plane.
2.)Buffalo Airways YZF-YHY: Speechless.
Ilaanilu, take care,
the TRIPREPORTER
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