Leg 8, from Dublin EIDW to Isle of Man Airport EGNS
We’ll be flying in the JMB VL-3 this time.
Shortly after take-off
Goodbye Ireland…
And hallo Irish Sea
You can actually already see the Isle from here.
After a shortish flight, we are already flying over the Isle of Man
I had a weird texture bug I’ve only encountered here, with the terrain changing to these vivid orange, purple and green colors.
Already at the airport… But I decided to take a tour around the island instead of just landing immediately.
The Island is probably best known for the insane motorcycle race they have, where racers fly across the Island on the normal roads at incredible speeds. Just look up ‘Isle of Man TT’ on youtube and you’ll see some both amazing and terrifying driving
One thing they also like to boast about is that they claim to have the oldest continuous parliamentary body in the world, called the Tynwald founded by vikings in the late 900’s though the earliest written sources mentioning it are from around 14th century.
This is the town of Douglas the Isles capital and largest town with a mighty 28000 inhabitants.
Next up is Laxey, the name comes from old norse ‘Laxa’ which means Salmon river, in the local Manx language it is ‘Laksaa’ by comparison in modern Danish that would be ‘Lakså’ and ‘å’ can also be written as ‘aa’ making it identical to the Manx spelling, pretty cool to still see Norse influence this far away from Scandinavia.
On we go, this time flying over Ramsey which is the second largest town on the Isle, and again another Norse name still surviving after a thousand years.
Turning around and heading south towards the airport again, we come upon the town of Peel the third largest town on the Island, and is home to a castle out on the little rock you can see in the sea.
Time for some low flying through this little valley
Though I’m quickly out back over the sea, and the weird coloring bug has returned.
Turning in to land at the airport.
On final.
And down and parked!
Next time we are flying to Leeds Bradford Airport (EGNM) in England, so stay tuned for that!