Transatlantic flights

[CARVE111]

Dear all,
Hopefully you ATC types could answer my question about flying a light twin to Canada via Iceland and Greenland. The Denmark and Iceland AIP state that long range communications equipment is required to fly in their airspace. Can anyone help, what do the light aircraft, such as Cesna's, do when they are ferried across to the UK.

Your help is much appreciated.

Carve 111

[hvogt]

A good start for planning such a flight would be NAT Doc 007, which can be downloaded from ICAO EUR/NAT Office (http://www.paris.icao.int)

[Chilli Monster]

Carve - I've done the crossing in light singles and twins. Providing you fly the "Blue Spruce" route (BIRK/BIKF - BGSF - CYFB) then no long range comms are required, standard VHF will suffice.

Feel free to PM if you want to discuss the whole transatlantic flying business in detail.

[CARVE111]

I thought that may be the case Chilli it was just the specific AIP line about long range comms. I will also read the nat007 reference above. Thanks for the comments and direction for further reading.
Carve

[Chilli Monster]

For the light aircraft pilot NAT DOC 007 is next to useless, a better solution is NAT IGA Manual (http://http://www.worldairops.com/NAT/docs/NAT_InternationalGeneralAviationManual_atWorldAirOps.com.pdf ).

I'd also advise talking to your insurance company - many will insist on the carriage of someone with transatlantic experience on a first crossing.