Originally Posted by
JayWJr
Very good advice Miles. The only real international experience I have is bringing a King Air 350 from Japan across Russia and Canada back to the USA.
My 16000 hours of mostly turboprop, corporate, medevac, freight, charter and commuter airline time has taught me that it’s safer to ask questions ahead of time than to just assume you can do it without knowing all of the details. I’ve heard rumors about North Atlantic winter weather but specific details are a must in smaller single turboprops with less range.
This gentleman had 26000+ hours total
http://www.rnsa.is/media/1273/ntsb_report.pdf and was the second to ditch in February 2008 near Iceland, never found of course.
Be careful and be safe, which sometimes means ‘don’t go’...