Legendary ferry pilot Margrit Waltz starts her 900
th transatlantic crossing today.
64-year-old Margrit is flying a TBM 940 from the factory at Tarbes, France to Muncie, Indiana, USA via her usual route: Wick (Scotland), Keflavik (Iceland), Iqaluit (Canada) and Bangor (Maine, USA).
Margrit is well-known to air traffic controllers en route.
“I’m around these people more often than my own family,” she told
FLYER contributor Jean-Marie Urlacher.
“Robin and Brian in Glasgow, Chris, David or Jens in Keflavik, Peter and Junia in Greenland… makes me think I need to wish Eris, my mechanic based in Sept-Îles (Seven Islands) in Canada, happy birthday. He turns 81 tomorrow.”