Next stop is an airfield at the southwest of Greenland, called Narsarsuaq. Built by the US War Dept for WW2, construction began in July of 1941. At it's largest, the base housed about 4000 personnel, and was used as an aircraft ferry stopover for planes being moved from the US to Europe, and as an observation and antisubmarine base. It's a biut more mundane these days, providing a passenger service hub, since the runway is long enough to handle large aircraft.
Warming up at Gander
Took off to the southwest, so had to come around- shown here flying past the airfield while climbing.
Experimenting with screen views at FL230.
Almost landed- steep approach, because MS Flight Sim seems to maintain standard H over G requirements in all terrain, without regard to common sense approach slopes...
On the Ground
An actual photo from the Wikipedia Commons...
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