Help Please! Longstaff Bluff, Nunavut CYUV

[just curious]

Beach is closer to Longstaff Bluff than Iqaluit but Jet fuel is tougher to get here as restrictions have been placed on it's availability for sched & medevac flts

We don't care about the fuel, we're all about the coffee!

[canwhitewolf]

dltd

[just curious]

Frontec is the operator. Snowroller would be the guy to ask. But Hall is maintained, Dewar Lakes less so, and Longstaff is simply "miss congeniality."

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Send a 206!

[Snowroller]

We don't care about the fuel, we're all about the coffee![/quote] No shortage of coffee JC,drop by anytime for a fresh pot.

[Kosiw]

Here's a pic of Longstaff Bluff looking to the east I took yesterday (August 27th) on my way back from Resolute to Iqaluit.

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Diamond in the rough that one is.

[KAG]

...I miss the north.

[KT111]

Google maps needs to update their city names. Only the old-timers call Iqaluit Frobisher Bay.

[just curious]

No, we call it Frobe, or Frobay, but mainly we like to call it long distance.

[Cat Driver]

Only the old-timers call Iqaluit Frobisher Bay.

KT111, you should take the time to educate those has beens like Just Curious, nothing worse than an old timer who isn't aware of where he is.

[KT111]

While this thread is supposed to be about Longstaff Bluff (which I would love to visit), there is some room here for common mispronounciations of Iqaluit.

Most common:
Ick-wall-you-it
Eye-Kal-You-IT
Ick-kel-you-it
Ick-will-it
Frobisher Bay

I'm not fluent in Inuktituk so of course this is a white-man's interpretation of how to say it but it sounds less funny if you say:

Ick-kal-you-it
Ick-kal-oo-it (Being the most common)
Some of the more fluent people up here say: Ih-qual-oo-it

[snoopy]

Or you could just take all the confusion out of it: Yankee Fox Bravo

[rigpiggy]

As a friend of mine a federal govt worker called it IGagALot, in NoneOfIt. and before any of you complain about that term spend some time there. Not the worst palce, and not the best either. Though the Legion's good for picking up sculptures on friday night.

[Siddley Hawker]

Some of the more fluent people up here say: Ih-qual-oo-it

Kangiqsuaujjuaq is pronounced George River.

[KT111]

Some of the more fluent people up here say: Ih-qual-oo-it

Kangiqsuaujjuaq is pronounced George River.

Haha

[Cat Driver]

And Kuujjuarapik Airport is Great Whale River.

Hey KT111, you been to Bluey One West?

This place in the picture below, it's east of Frobisher Bay.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e353/ ... ght118.jpg

[ettw]

Cat, is that a pic of Narsarsuaq? Looks kinda like it with the glacier at the end of the rwy.

When I was working out of YKL we went to George River once in a while and the first time I went I spent an inordinate amount of time practicing what I thought was the proper pronunciation of the Inuktitut name. So after saying it about a hundred times enroute in my head I rhymed off my very best "Good morning Kangiqsualujuaq airport radio". The response? "This is George River airport radio, go ahead"!! LOL!!

Cheers,

ETTW

[bmc]

And Kuujjuarapik Airport is Great Whale River.

...and Poste de la Baleine.

[Cat Driver]

Cat, is that a pic of Narsarsuaq? Looks kinda like it with the glacier at the end of the rwy.

Yes, it was Bluie West One during the war.

[KT111]

And Kuujjuarapik Airport is Great Whale River.

Hey KT111, you been to Bluey One West?

This place in the picture below, it's east of Frobisher Bay.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e353/ ... ght118.jpg

Nah I've never been to greenland. Looks like a nice place though. Family who have been tell me their towns are very clean compared to Iqaluit.

[bmc]

This is a fun thread. I was based at Fox Main long ago. Dropped into Longstaff, Dewar Lakes, Cape Hooper, Cape Dyer, Broughton with FH-227 long ago, although I think hooper was Twin Otter only..

Hey Cat...your name came up over coffee yesterday at R.H.'s yesterday before I took the ferry back to North America. Didn't know you lived down the road.

Bad enough that I missed two ferries yacking without risking more hearing your stories thrown in.

[Siddley Hawker]

Cat is that airplane in your pic of Narsarsuaq the last one you ferried across to where was it, Windsor Locks?

[Cat Driver]

Siddley, yes that is N9521C we ferried it from J-Berg South Africa to Suffolk Virginia via the North Atlantic route.

That was the trip I had planned on stopping to visit with you but time ran out on us and we did not get to divert to your airport.

Here is where she is now...

http://www.fighterfactory.com/about-fighter-factory.php

[Siddley Hawker]

Thanks Cat, nice article on that Canso.

We had two at Northern Wings, IIW and IHN. They both went to the US when Quebecair needed money to buy BAC1-11's, but were re-imported back to Canada as FFC and FFD.