Some Norwawsome flying

Long time no see as usual.

During the last month we have continued to study instrument flying which means to fly with the help of radio beacons, GPS and instructions from air traffic control, see previous post.

Also, all students have been to the small city of Bardufoss close to Tromsö in northern Norway. My class stayed there for 6 days and flew among steep mountains, deep valleys and fjords. It was really awesome, and though we only flew about 6 hours per person it was a really valuable experience. This post is mainly for showing a bunch of photos from that week.

All flying was visual and the weather varied a lot so our ability to make important decisions when the weather deteriorates was also tested. We also flew two students together every time so that we can practice to cooperate which of course is a highly necessary skill when flying commercially.

While I'm present at each location of all photos, this time most of them are not my own, so I've put letters in front of all pictures taken with cameras belonging to classmates. R marked photos are Rickard's and G marked photos are Gustav's. Thank you, Rickard and Gustav!

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Me and three classmates flew to Norway in this nice PA-31 Navajo that two teachers piloted. It took two refueling stops and about 5 hours flying time to get to Bardufoss. After a while we were pretty tired...

 Soon after departure from fuel stop Borlänge we passed over Falun! Nice to see from above!

 

 

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 The coastal fjord scenery was just stunning.

 

Lunch break in Kiruna. The ramp personnell was so kind that they gave us a ride to central town to get food since the only restaurant at the airport was already closed. This was the local recommendation and they had really good hamburgers!

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Cleared to land runway 10 ("one zero"), Bardufoss.

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School aircraft parking at Bardufoss. There was regular flights of Norwegian to Oslo from here, nice to watch their take-offs.

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One of the days we flew to Sweden, landed on Kiruna and Gällivare airports and flew around the mountain range  where Kebnekajse, Sweden's highest mountain, is. The clouds were however too low for us to see the top of Kebnekajse but flying beside it under the clouds was fantastic.