Contact à Sept-îles
Posted: Fri 05 Aug, 2016 07:14
Je cherche un contact a 7-îles pour un couple d`Allemand, Andreas et Doreen (Trike-Globetrotter) qui sont présentement à Shefferville, si la météo ne lui permet pas de revenir en vol, il veut envoyer son trike par train à 7-îles, il aurait besoin d`aide pour le transport entre le train et l`aéroport.
Ils voulaient traverser l`atlantique mais les conditions climatiques du Nord lui on fait changer d`idée.
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Message envoyé par Andréas à Pierre Larrivée de Baie -Comeau:
``Salut Claude,
Prend note du message ci-dessous d'Andreas. Je n'ai pas de contact (pilot) à 7-Iles, est-ce que toi, tu en as?
Pierre (Déjeune à l'extérieur, vais être à la maison à partir de 7h30 demain matin)
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Andreas Zmuda [mailto:info@trike-globetrotter.com]
Envoyé : mercredi 3 août 2016 11:31
À : Pierre Larrivée
Objet : News from Andreas
Hello Pierre,
We knew when we started our tour 4 years ago, that there will be some difficult and not just easy sightseeing flights. Actually it turned out that every third flight was over hostile terrain and completely cut off parts of the 34 country's we have flown so fare. Absolutely no landing spot at all in the event of an emergency over uninhibited forest, desolated wilderness of short pine trees, hills and lakes like here in Canada, the Caribbean water, the snowcapped Andes, desserts in Peru and Chile or the Amazon or the Colombian jungle and so on.
To minimize this risk we decided in the beginning of our tour to fly just in the morning hours, when winds are usually calm and also to get help the same day if needed. A late departure will maybe make it impossible for any rescue team to find us the same day. We also decided to be very careful with the weather, what was working out not always.
But when you go on a trip like ours, there is no way to fly just over a safe ground, where you can find always a emergency landing spot. So we did this so fare for 4 years and most great but also some very scary flights.
Now to cross the Atlantic the whole story get on a different level.
There is close to no day with low winds and no rain. The northern part of Canada is one of the least populous territory of Canada, with remote Inuit (former so called Eskimo) villages and almost every day with some rain. And even the weather is foretasted with 1.800ft high broken clouds, you can find yourself flying 300ft about the forest because some CU clouds just came up and decided to let it rain. This just we got on our last flight from Wabush to Schefferville. And starting 20 miles out Schefferville 300ft low clouds builded up and we was happy to find our way safe to the ground.
Next stop would be 4 remote Inuit places in Canada before flying over to Greenland. When we want to keep if on a safe side, we will need to wait at least 6-10 days at every single place to get a reasonable weather to fly. I remember the blog what two other trike pilots (Mike and Olivier) wrote when they crossed from Canada to Scotland in 1999, flying in 25 gusting winds, low clouds and bad visibility and even close to heavy rain. They took there decision as pilots to take this risks. But I am just not willing to get my life but first of all Doreens life in a unnecessary danger. We both are very adventures people but we want to fly with a calculated risk. When the only way to make a decision to fly is based by hoping to have luck to arrive, the only decision for me must be to stay safe on the ground and better to skip this dangerous part of our tour.
We just have August to cross Greenland because after the winds will even pick up in connection with possible icing. At least 8 up to 8 hours long flights we will need to reach Iceland in just 26 days. No way to do this for us in the actual weather conditions. So we decided to fly to Saint-Hyacinthe, to our friends Bernard Rouer and Julie Trépanier from Aviation Rou-Air, close to Montreal and to ship the trike over the Atlantic to Europe to get airborne there and continuous with our tour.
As you can imagine this was a very difficult decision yesterday we had to take and to be very honest - there were tears rolling down our cheeks, but we have the aim to arrive in Sydney - one day - alive!
So thanks once more for all your help and maybe you know somebody at the airport in Sept-Iles? We may bring the trike down there with the train if weather is bad the next days to get it from the train station Saturday to the airport. So I think it will need somebody there to help us to get the trike from the street in the airport
Big hug and all the best,
Andreas and Doreen
Ils voulaient traverser l`atlantique mais les conditions climatiques du Nord lui on fait changer d`idée.
http://trike-globetrotter.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Message envoyé par Andréas à Pierre Larrivée de Baie -Comeau:
``Salut Claude,
Prend note du message ci-dessous d'Andreas. Je n'ai pas de contact (pilot) à 7-Iles, est-ce que toi, tu en as?
Pierre (Déjeune à l'extérieur, vais être à la maison à partir de 7h30 demain matin)
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Andreas Zmuda [mailto:info@trike-globetrotter.com]
Envoyé : mercredi 3 août 2016 11:31
À : Pierre Larrivée
Objet : News from Andreas
Hello Pierre,
We knew when we started our tour 4 years ago, that there will be some difficult and not just easy sightseeing flights. Actually it turned out that every third flight was over hostile terrain and completely cut off parts of the 34 country's we have flown so fare. Absolutely no landing spot at all in the event of an emergency over uninhibited forest, desolated wilderness of short pine trees, hills and lakes like here in Canada, the Caribbean water, the snowcapped Andes, desserts in Peru and Chile or the Amazon or the Colombian jungle and so on.
To minimize this risk we decided in the beginning of our tour to fly just in the morning hours, when winds are usually calm and also to get help the same day if needed. A late departure will maybe make it impossible for any rescue team to find us the same day. We also decided to be very careful with the weather, what was working out not always.
But when you go on a trip like ours, there is no way to fly just over a safe ground, where you can find always a emergency landing spot. So we did this so fare for 4 years and most great but also some very scary flights.
Now to cross the Atlantic the whole story get on a different level.
There is close to no day with low winds and no rain. The northern part of Canada is one of the least populous territory of Canada, with remote Inuit (former so called Eskimo) villages and almost every day with some rain. And even the weather is foretasted with 1.800ft high broken clouds, you can find yourself flying 300ft about the forest because some CU clouds just came up and decided to let it rain. This just we got on our last flight from Wabush to Schefferville. And starting 20 miles out Schefferville 300ft low clouds builded up and we was happy to find our way safe to the ground.
Next stop would be 4 remote Inuit places in Canada before flying over to Greenland. When we want to keep if on a safe side, we will need to wait at least 6-10 days at every single place to get a reasonable weather to fly. I remember the blog what two other trike pilots (Mike and Olivier) wrote when they crossed from Canada to Scotland in 1999, flying in 25 gusting winds, low clouds and bad visibility and even close to heavy rain. They took there decision as pilots to take this risks. But I am just not willing to get my life but first of all Doreens life in a unnecessary danger. We both are very adventures people but we want to fly with a calculated risk. When the only way to make a decision to fly is based by hoping to have luck to arrive, the only decision for me must be to stay safe on the ground and better to skip this dangerous part of our tour.
We just have August to cross Greenland because after the winds will even pick up in connection with possible icing. At least 8 up to 8 hours long flights we will need to reach Iceland in just 26 days. No way to do this for us in the actual weather conditions. So we decided to fly to Saint-Hyacinthe, to our friends Bernard Rouer and Julie Trépanier from Aviation Rou-Air, close to Montreal and to ship the trike over the Atlantic to Europe to get airborne there and continuous with our tour.
As you can imagine this was a very difficult decision yesterday we had to take and to be very honest - there were tears rolling down our cheeks, but we have the aim to arrive in Sydney - one day - alive!
So thanks once more for all your help and maybe you know somebody at the airport in Sept-Iles? We may bring the trike down there with the train if weather is bad the next days to get it from the train station Saturday to the airport. So I think it will need somebody there to help us to get the trike from the street in the airport
Big hug and all the best,
Andreas and Doreen