Flight 44: Iqaluit to Cape Dorset

Iqaluit Airport

The next flight takes us across the southern part of Baffin Island, to Cape Dorset:

Cape Dorset (Inuktitut: Kinngait (high mountain); Syllabics: is an Inuit hamlet located on Dorset Island near Foxe Peninsula at the southern tip of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. The Inuktitut name of the village means "high mountains".

Cape Dorset Airport (IATA: YTE, ICAO: CYTE) is located at Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada, and is operated by the Government of Nunavut.

Canadian North provides regular service to Iqaluit, while First Air provides service to Chesterfield Inlet, Coral Harbor, Iqaluit, and Rankin Inlet.


Arctic Tundra

Flying Over Baffin Island

Flying over Baffin Island, it becomes apparent that this is a cold and desolate part of the world.  It is also an area I have not travelled to in Flight Simulator, except maybe as part of a tubeliner at  35,000 feet as part of an Arctic crossing (which is always weird in Flight Simulator).
This Approach and landing was a disaster.  Nothing seemed to go right.  The weather was bad with low visibility.  The RNAV approach did not have me properly lined up with the runway.  The G1000 which comes with the aircraft is a hard to use piece of junk. It's hard to handfly the aircraft and maintain any degree of situational awareness.   Moreover, the documentation is minimal and not too helpful.  I might try to modify the plane to add the Mindstar G1000.  But even the default G1000 in FSX is better.



Cape Dorset - Trees and Autogen Everywhere

I was using FS9 scenery, and I had trees and autogen all over the airport.  I might see if there is conflicting scenery which I can disable.  I really don't know if it is worth the time and effort it will take to redo this airport for FSX;  probably not.

The FSD products are old products and substandard by other planes being released currently.  I think I may leave the Cirrus VLJ for another aircraft -- I have plenty to choose from.  But having a plane that does not work right is not much fun.