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>Sjef:
>Your hospitality was absolutely the best we experienced on this trip. I can
>never thank you enough for your assistance and generosity. Bruce and I
>really appreciated it after all that we had been through. Hope you and your
>wife will someday make it to the US for a visit.
>
>After we left your place in Texel, we arrived in Wick Scottland to a low
>ceiling and had to shoot an approach to the airport landed with no
>difficulty. We rented and put on those awful immersion suits (half way
>anyway, fueled up the plane and as we were taxing out, the weather closed
>in. We could have gotten out of Wick but we were heavily loaded with fuel,
>it was a bit late and weather was bad so we aborted and spent the night in
>Wick. The weather was bad in the morning but we finally got off about
1:30pm
>and on to Iceland. We arrived Reyjekavic (sp)Iceland to a howling gusting
35
>knot wind almost straight down the runway. We fueled up and were pressing
on
>to Goose Bay. At 22000 feet and a 3.5 cabin differential, about 250 knots
>true and close to 300 knots ground speed, the pilots/door window cracked.
As
>I was reaching for the dump valve, the window blew out! We executed an
>emergency decent and 180 degree turn back to Iceland. I plugged in the
>oxygen masks, squawked 7700, dialed in 12345 on the radio, contacted an
>airliner to relay our situation to Iceland Radio and we flew on back to
>Iceland at a lower level and much slower speed. The plane flew just fine.
>Man was it cold! Bruce´s jacket with his wallet and passport and over 2
>grand cash was sucked out of the plane.
>
>Our speed leaving Iceland over the Atlantic was slow, 165 IAS as we had
>duct tape replacing the window and we had a elevator trim problem. So we
>flew low and slow. When the window blew out at 22,000 feet, we were
>indicating 200 IAS and a ground speed of 287 knots (well over 300 miles per
>hour). We also had a trim problem as the elevator trim servo exploded into
>pieces during the window incident. I still have not figured out how that
>happened. We flew the plane from Iceland to Canada 6.7 non-stop hours with
>the elevator trim tab taped level with the elevator. We had to hold serious
>forward stick pressure at 165 IAS to keep the plane level. Out over the
>Atlantic, we encountered moderate icing conditions. That was not fun. Icing
>slowed the plane down at least 10 knots and we headed for lower, sometimes
>higher elevations to shake off the ice. After we landed in Canada for fuel,
>I estimated where the trim tab should be and duct taped it in place 1/4
inch
>up. That made the plane much easier to fly but harder to land.
>We blasted over Northern Canada and spent the night in Churchill after a
>foggy night landing. Up at O-Dark Thirty and off to Regina Canada, fuel and
>press on to Salt Lake City, Utah USA. Today, Tuesday July 31, 2001, Bruce
>and I flew the plane to Fresno. Ahhh, it is good to be back home.
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