During this holiday weekend I have had some time to think about my fabulous trip to Europe with my new found friend Jeff Miller in his superbly equipped late model Cessna T182.
Let me begin by saying that I learned a lot about Jeff, starting from the very first day we spoke about the trip, and [...]
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Don Ratliff’s opinion of Jeff Miller’s flight across the North Atlantic
May 25th, 2009 by jeffrey
Monday night in Iqaluit
May 18th, 2009 by Don Ratliff
We made it into Iqaluit this evening, but not without some problems to overcome, which we did. We had some icing problems, along with the GPS problem we have had all week, it dropped completely off line today 3-4 times, once while on the instrument approach into Iqaluit,then the autopilot tripped out and we [...]
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Sunday in Iceland
May 17th, 2009 by Don Ratliff
We are having a leisurely day in Iceland. Today is one of 5-6 days out of the entire year that there are no clouds, rain, or snow. The weather is perfect, too bad we could not go to Greenland today.
After lunch we plan on going to the Blue Lagoon for a swim in the warm [...]
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Don’s comments
May 16th, 2009 by Don Ratliff
First I must say that I am enjoying this trip very much, although I have made the trip from the USA to Europe close to 300 times over the past 21 years. I know that Jeff has learned a lot and that he will be a safer pilot after this flight, and that is worth the [...]
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