ROFL Baradium, you actually looked it up? I hope to hell I never have to land at Sparrevohn. Only reason I know about it is back when I was in flight training my instructor used it to keep us wise. Makes you REALLY stop and look at the Supplemental before you fly in to a place, ya know? Only way I'd drop in there is on an "oh frell, it's the only place to land!" kind of deal. BTW, my old supplement is out of arms reach. What does little Diomede read?
We go into a lot of those radar sites on government charters. I don't know if we go to that one, tomorrow maybe I'll look and see if it's in the list of places that the LOA gets us into (this year's just became active).
They are shutting a number of them down these days though, was thinking that one was one of the decomissioned ones actually.
DIOMEDE HELIPORT
Heliport Remarks-- Unattended. BE ALERT: diomede is in very close proximity to Russian airspace. Incursion into Russian airspace is a civil violation. H1 perimeter lights. Rotating beacon OTS indefinitely.
Where is that one at?
Gambell is very close to Russian airspace but apparently not close enough to get a note like that (we have flights in there daily). It was always cloudy when I went in there, then once I went in on a clear day and was shocked at how close we really were to Russia (a lot closer to Russia than the rest of Alaska, that's for sure).
