allwayscold
30th Apr 2001, 19:51
Hi Everyone,
I've seen a lot of people wondering abouts these airports over the past little while. I work out of CYFB (Iqaluit) and have flown many times to BGSF (Sanderstrom Fjord), and yes over the past number of years i have seen many of your aircraft divert here. Well i hope this helps most of you understand the area. Like many other airports around the north we don't have airstairs either that can reach up to the height of the widebodies, where as BGSF does due to the fact SAS has a sked fight into there. As for the runways both are great, nice and long and well kept, CYFB this winter had some problems keeping runway maintainer's so as some of you found out the runway was closed some evenings throughout the winter. As for accomodations there would be plenty if needed summertime might be a bit of a problem as there are lots of tourists who come to the area. As for medical facilities, Iqaluit has a full hospital as does Sonderstrom and CYFB also has a medivac operated if needed. Certainly a good consideration is the winters as it very common to see -35C with a 30 knot wind out of the north, remember the water doesn't even open till mid july. CYFB has an ILS to the most common runway in use and a back course to the other as for BGSF it uses a localizer approach and you use it to circle to the other runway, which i would not recommend to people not familier to the area. I hope this helps you overseas boys understand the area a little bit, i you want to know more feel free to post and i will try my best to answer.
PS: A for the northern lights up here there fantastic, the season is over as we are going 24 hours of daylight, but best place to see them are half way between CYFB (Iqaluit) and CYUX (Hall Beach) also along the northern tip of Quebec just north of CYVP across to Churchill. Cheers.
I've seen a lot of people wondering abouts these airports over the past little while. I work out of CYFB (Iqaluit) and have flown many times to BGSF (Sanderstrom Fjord), and yes over the past number of years i have seen many of your aircraft divert here. Well i hope this helps most of you understand the area. Like many other airports around the north we don't have airstairs either that can reach up to the height of the widebodies, where as BGSF does due to the fact SAS has a sked fight into there. As for the runways both are great, nice and long and well kept, CYFB this winter had some problems keeping runway maintainer's so as some of you found out the runway was closed some evenings throughout the winter. As for accomodations there would be plenty if needed summertime might be a bit of a problem as there are lots of tourists who come to the area. As for medical facilities, Iqaluit has a full hospital as does Sonderstrom and CYFB also has a medivac operated if needed. Certainly a good consideration is the winters as it very common to see -35C with a 30 knot wind out of the north, remember the water doesn't even open till mid july. CYFB has an ILS to the most common runway in use and a back course to the other as for BGSF it uses a localizer approach and you use it to circle to the other runway, which i would not recommend to people not familier to the area. I hope this helps you overseas boys understand the area a little bit, i you want to know more feel free to post and i will try my best to answer.
PS: A for the northern lights up here there fantastic, the season is over as we are going 24 hours of daylight, but best place to see them are half way between CYFB (Iqaluit) and CYUX (Hall Beach) also along the northern tip of Quebec just north of CYVP across to Churchill. Cheers.