I thought I'd post this link. I spend some time in Canada in the summer and frequent a canadian aviation site. This guy flew a rented 172 from the southern US to fly over the north pole. He planned for a year, staged fuel drums, waited out some weather, but made it about a week ago to the pole. He's just returned down south. Pretty cool.

Of note is that his spot transmitted position reports throughout the trip, missed very few, and worked well even over the north pole.

http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopi ... 25&t=75176

Unfortunately his spot track is no longer on the map I pulled up.

This was a ballsy trip that the majority of folks tried to talk him out of.

-Brad

Brad,

I've been following his two threads for a while now, and it sounded like an EPIC journey! Those Avcanada guys are a tough lot; half of the regulars were trying to dissuade him from making the trip, and the other half didn't take him very seriously until he started... then everyone jumped on the bandwagon and saw that he was really making it happen!

BTW... the Avcanada site, and especially the Bush Flying/ Specialty Air Service Forums are very informative, with a lot of tidbits that make it enjoyable to peruse through. Also check out the "Pics from A Swamper"
thread; there's some awesome photography there!

http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewforu ... 43ca620259

Safe flying, everyone!

Alan

Thanks for the trip about the pics on the swamper thread. I had not checked that out. The one from God's Lake with northern lights and sunset is riduculous.

-Brad