Leg 4: La Grand Riviere, Canada to Kuujjuaq, Canada
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Tiny Kuujjuaq on the mouth of the Koksoak River is both an Administrative hub and Capital of the Kativik Regional District in Quebec, as well as a vital ferry airport for planes transiting between the US and Europe via Canda and the Greenland-Iceland-UK route. It’s literally one of the last stops in North America before the massive Greenland continental shelf. About 452 nm and four hours on this leg.
Departing La Grande Riviere - definite IFR, all the clear weather from Kansas has disappeared.
Beautiful vast emptiness as we head slowly up to cruise altitude. Even with a responsive turbo-diesel, it’s a slow climb.
Cloudbase break out around 8,000 - lower the nose, pick up some speed and get on the power curve for fuel consumption - we’re helped along by a rough tailwind gusting to 40 knots or so:
Checkpoint Lake Wiyashakimi - we’re about 200 nm or so from Kuujjuaq:
Descending into the soup for a northwest curve around to Runway 25:
We pass over the north end of Kuujjuaq headed for the threshold:
