THE FLIGHT LOG

30 Minute Observation Flight On October 24, 2011

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:53:39 +0000

A fantastic birthday present for the kids. Thirty minutes over the Reykjavik area can be quite an adventure during your Iceland visit.

Can you spot Bjork’s house in this picture?

Cockpit video from our Bell 206 Long Ranger going down from the top og Eyjafjallajökull volcano

Reynir — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:12:45 +0000

KATLA volcano melts a glacier and causes floods

admin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:24:20 +0000

Pilots Reynir Petursson and co-pilot Eggert Akerlie from Helicopter.is flew over Katla volcano today. Eggert shot this video. There was some volcanic activity under the glacier that caused big time melting and massive floods on the south coast of Iceland. The floods took out a bridge on Highway 1.

Aerial filming with Cineflex camera

Reynir — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:39:47 +0000

The island Eldey south-west of Reykjanes penninsula, this is a footage from go-pro camera

Volcano tour, June 2011

Reynir — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:00:00 +0000

TIME TO VISIT ICELAND

admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:07:17 +0000

This is a promotional video for the south of Iceland. Many of the shots in this video were shot from our helicopter so this gives you a good idea what you will see on your visit to Iceland this summer.

Volcano Shoot interview on MSNBC

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:35:50 +0000

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Eruption in Grímsvötn caldera in Vatnajökull glacier May 2011

Reynir — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:29:51 +0000

Around 7pm last Saturday 21.05. An eruption started in Grimsvötn caldera. Grímsvötn are located in the middle of Vatnajökull glacier that is the biggest glacier in Iceland and Europe.
We where the first to get there and be able to film it up-close from the surface of the glacier around 10:30 pm, we got as close as 2-3NM on the upwind side northwest of the volcano.
The surface of glacier there is about 5000 feet high and at the time we where there the ash plume reached 65000 feet, to put that into perspective the height of Mt Everest is 29000 feet.
I admit that you felt rather tiny flying so close to this beast towering 60k feet above you and with all the lightning’s thunders to make it very dramatic and almost scary, but as long as we flew in low and from this direction we where both safe from the ash and lightning’s.
Now the ash cloud has spread in all directions and the authorities have decided to put a 20NM radius “No Fly Zone” around the volcano. “Thank god that big brother is watching out for us”.
We are hoping that this eruption will turn into more of magma flowing type with fire within the ice rather than this ash spreading all over,
But please enjoy still the only proper video of the eruption filmed by Jon Gustafsson.

Capt. Reynir Petursson

Volcanic Eruption in Grimsvotn, Iceland May 21 2011 from Jon Gustafsson on Vimeo.

Water bombing practice

Reynir — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:59:44 +0000

Vorið að nálgast og tími sinubruna að koma, við tókum því út slökkvifötuna okkar og gerðum hana klára í slaginn þegar á henni þarf að halda. Slökkvilið Grindavíkur var á staðnum og fylgdist með að allt færi vel fram.
Its spring time and the season of bush fires getting close, therefor we took out our fire bucket and held demostration for the Grindavik fire department

Last years film project on Nat Geo TV

Reynir — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:23:07 +0000

The film/documentary we flew for last year, made by the Icelandic company Profilm for National Geographic about volcanos in Iceland will premire on National Geographic TV 7th of April. See for first time when cameras are taken into the core of an volcano, it also explains both last year eruption in great detail and the volcanic activity in Iceland throu the ages. Dont miss this one, here’s the preview link.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/expedition-week/5782/Videos/09879_00