Leg 227, Alert to Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
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Long flight, so much unspoiled terrain out here. The Great White North. Just like Siberia, probably many places that are still unexplored. Only 3 stops today, there is hardly anyone out here.
04-05 Alert CYLT 6:27 PM 590nm next
04-05 Resolute Bay CYRB 10:02 PM 385nm next FL130
04-06 Cambridge Bay CYCB 12:21 AM 492nm next Drone cam landing, 3 attempts, blinding beacon!
04-06 Rankin Inlet CYRT 3:17 AM
Flight time 8:50 3 stops
Departure from Alert Bay, not long after I arrived on my redemption flight
Alert already disappeared by the latitude draw distance ‘feature’
Following Lake Hazen south, over pixel country
Mountains along Lake Hazen and Alecandra Fiord
Baffin Unorganized Nunavut XOA
Ellesmere Island
Axel Heiberg Island across the water
Not much grows this far north, still close to the 80th parallel
Nansen Sound
Stor Island
Still 280nm to go to Resolute Bay
The sun takes a long time to set despite me flying South
Graham Island
Crossing the 77th parallel
Buckingham Island through the frosty windows
North Kent Island
Resolute Bay in sight
Easy landing, or maybe not
27 knot crosswind (25 knot from the side)
Luckily a very wide runway. I kept two wheels inside the white lines, racing rules
Above 17 knot crosswinds the Bonanza won’t go straight, land slow, brake
Resolute Bay
Take off in that wind was tricky as well, bank (slightly) during take off, don’t let the wing hit the ground
On to Cambridge Bay
Aiming for the gap, I don’t want more icing
Safe above the clouds, watching the stars
Cambridge Bay
That beacon made landing difficult, blinding with boosted exposure in drone cam
Cambridge Bay
Remains of an old church on the right, restored with a new roof
On to Rankin Inlet
I ended up in the fog, search lights on
The clouds eased up close to the ground, Rankin Inlet Airport
Last stop for today, long flights
Rankin Inlet, an Inuit hamlet on Kudlulik Peninsula
It is the largest hamlet and second-largest settlement in Nunavut, population 2,842. I visited the capital of Nunavut, Iqalit, back on leg 4, almost 1,200 km from here.
Tomorrow, further south along Hudson Bay.