The last leg for the Crossing to Europe.

We have been keeping a close eye on the weather., the words, rain, icing, wind, gust, freezing level, came way to often in my discussion to prepare the briefing.

The decision came to avoid Scotland and to fly to Norway instead, might be a little longer ( 80nm) but a lot easier on the approach and the wind.

This crossing I decided to fly to Stavanger. The airport offers an ILS, fuel, custom but most important acceptable weather and wind.

Man, the moto of air journey was online today..tails winds....we did up to 444 kts at our 280 flight level for a good 40 minutes and we had blue skies for the above cloud portion.

We burn the most amount of fuel and the TBM the least with most of the time shy of 620 liters and us at nearly 1100 liters, the 2 other Mustang are doing well in the low 800.

Our first route was an easy one to Stavanger and we were under radar contact the whole way

The second leg...another story:

Here is the revised flight plan:

ENZV KARLI DCT UPGAS UN866 LARDI UL74 TOPPA DCT GMH UL603 ESATI UL984 SULUS UZ650 TONSU UZ35 LOMKI LKPR

A route that added nearly 200 nm to the original one.

But we had tail wind

Then the flight plan of N510WH disappear from the system, so we had to refile..great that G was in the office and did a great job.....

But we only got the startup clearance and then the magic word..."Rest of the flight plan in route"  can you imagine the port pilot with no support having to enter the flight plan above in the GPS while flying....

During the flight we had numerous controller changes and transponder code too...

After Stavanger we flew to Prague, the legs today were 865 and 620 nm. 

Again on the second leg a lot of tail wind and a long arrival and approach in Prague, but we were greeted with partial blue skies finally....

6 landing and 6 approaches so far on the journey

Amazing what we did in 5 days:

look at the latitude of Prague compare to a similar  latitude in the US.

This is Doug N510KB contrail....way above us.