flying over the Atlantic

This may be a silly question...but what was that large brown land mass of land (appeared rather barren) that my flight flew over in the Atlantic? Would a flight from Newark to Paris (or vise versa) fly over Iceland or Greenland, or was this some smaller barren land mass? Just curious...

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Probably Labrador (Newfoundland) and Quebec. The trips I%26#39;ve taken, we%26#39;ve never been close enough to Greenland or Iceland to see them.

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I%26#39;ve seen Iceland from the plane. The pilot has pointed it out. to us...

Les

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I agree with magenta. I%26#39;m always following the onboard computer map and it%26#39;s either Novo Scotia or Newfoundland.

The great circle from NY to Paris goes nowhere near iceland or greenland.

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Sometimes, if you%26#39;re flying on a newer plane, with newer engines that aren%26#39;t yet fully rated, the FAA requires that the plane never be more than 1 hour from a safe landing zone, which requires that planes be routed further north, near enough to Iceland and Greenland in case of an emergency. If this were the case, you very well may have flown that northerly route. In the late %26#39;80s, when I was a flight attendant for Pan Am, we had leased several A310%26#39;s from Airbus, and the engines on those planes didn%26#39;t have enough flight hours on them to be rated for the standard 2 hours, and the long route we had to take sometimes made for 10+ hour flights from Paris to DC. We frequently had to stop for fuel in Bangor, and once or twice in Keflavik.

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Manhattan

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IrishRovr, ya just crack me up...lol...

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Atlantis.

Quick, phone someone.

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If you departed from EWR, you would have flown north out along the Atlantic coast. Most of the North Atlantic controlled -traffic air corridors use Labradour in Canada as their departure point for trans-Atlantic routes when flying west-to-east ( Ireland when flying east-to-west). It%26#39;s relatively rare that you are far enough north along the air corridors to London or Paris to see either Greenland, Iceland or any land mass.in between (the Azores are too far south). ...unless Atlantis has broken its moorings again and is bobbing around as a menace to shipping.

If you%26#39;re lucky enough to fly over Manhattan, from an EWR departure, it %26#39;..sparkles..%26#39; on a sunny day and %26#39;..twinkles..%26#39; aon a clear night. It%26#39;s a treat to see from the air.

http://gc.kls2.com/

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I%26#39;ve flown Toronto to London and Vancouver to London. Those flights go over Greenland and Iceland.

Greenland has really impressive looking fjords along its coasts. It%26#39;s more white than brown. The NW Passage is still littered with icebergs despite the global warming. Viking reenactments will have to wait a whee bit longer.

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Very cute IrishRovr, very cute, but, who knows, you might be right.