A presentation by Charles Stewart about the 1st stage of the 3 Capes Helicopter Challenge

1. 3 Capes Heli Challenge
First Challenge
Nordkapp to Cape Wrath

4. Ruby on the big day 30th April 2012

5. The First Stop Bagby

7. The first sea crossing from Rochester
To
Lydd France

9. In the Channel off Dunkirk
running north

10. Zebrugge - Belgium

11. Flower farms – Rotterdam
Holland

12. Double-decker hangers in
Hilversum – Holland

13. Environmentally friendly Holland, the land of solar panels,
wind turbines and flowers……

14. A solar panel farm in
Holland
using a disused military
airfield

15. Day 1
Lanark to Stade

17. A ship passing behind the
terminal building in the canal

18. Stop for pancakes
at Haderslev Airfiled in Denmark

20. Filling at Aalborg

21. 75 mile Sea Crossing across the
Baltic Sea

22. Seeing land always has that warm feeling

26. Day 2
Stade to Stavanger

30. Charles’ Uncle Petter, uncovered 1081 unknown
Norwegian Relatives 2 weeks prior departure!!!!

31. Petter Toftesund fished seals in
the arctic circle in 1957 in his
early 20’s

32. The small house in the background is
the original Skorpen house that great
great grandpa Petter Skorpen lived in
and left for South Africa in 1872 aged
16 years old
Grandpa Milton
Skorpen Milton Great Grandpa Petter
Skorpen
Norma Skorpen
Charles’ Mom

34. Petter & Liv
Toftesund at
Sandsøya

36. Lars, Inger & Lars jnr
Hukkelås
In
Meldal

38. Museum Site, the buildings date back to 1600

39. Day 3
Stavanger to Meldal
Skorpa Island, where the
Skorpen Family came from

40. Finals for runway 27 left - Vaerness
Trondheim

41. Brians Bardufoss Airport – baptism in IFR
BY FIRE!!

43. Meldal to Bardufoss
Day 4

44. Out of Bardufoss – White
out – Forced to land on
an island…
Norwegian CAVOK

46. Last fuel before
Nordkapp, at Alta
Alta to Nordkapp is 81miles as
the crow flies not through the
fjord!! 260 miles through the
flords!!

47. Seagull Island

48. Bardufoss to Honningsvag
Day 5

49. …and lots of it.

50. G-CMCC
Nordkapp
the first Cape

51. Nordkapp
made it, goal
achieved!!!

52. Nordkapp done
and we are off!!

54. King Crab
Up to 12kg!!

56. Mayor of Honningsvag
Nordkapp
We were given a letter to give the Mayor of Cape Town
which gave our trip a great unexpected twist…..

58. Departing Honningvag to the
south to make Banak for
fuel…

60. Snow Mobile tracks everywhere...

61. Bodo -Inbound finals for
runway 25……

62. Honningsvag to Bodo
Day 6

64. Landing at 660 33’ 44’’ the Polar Circle

67. Fish Farmer in the fjords

68. To beat the low cloud
we flew over it up to
6800ft

70. Skorpa Island

71. Bodo to Bergen
Day 7

72. After oil lights came on last night we checked the oil and
were ready to do it…..

73. North Sea Crossing
Norway to Shetland Islands
We needed 87knots ground speed to cover the
201miles and we have a 15 knot head wind..or
turn back as we will not make the other side!

74. Made the Shetlands
Bobby and Drew
E&H Contractors Shetlands
Absolute Gentlemen

77. North Sea to Orkney Islands

79. Cape Wrath, the second Cape!!

80. Bergen to Lanark
Day 8

81. Back at home
2 out of 3 Capes
the difficult one to
come

82. G-CMCC..
Lifting departing to
the south…17th July
2012
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