Presenting pre-Christmas flight from ENFB Fornebu Oslo Airport which was the primary international airport serving Oslo 1939 to 1998 locating at Fornebu 5.0 miles from the city center of Oslo to ENTC Tromsø Airport situated on the western shore of the island of Tromsøya and located at Langnes in the city of Tromsø in Tromsø Municipality, Norway
The flight was supposed to be served by 737-500 but because too many people working in Oslo are going home to their families in Tromso for Christmas forcing the airline to switch from 735 to brand new 767-200 to handle volume traffic of holiday travellers.
Gate number 38 finished disconnecting from the plane fully and heavily boarded with excited passengers enjoying the factory fresh scent of interior of the new plane with tons tons of Christmas presents in its luggage holds.
Being pushbacked by tug
Pushback tug changing the direction of push back so that the plane would face proper taxi path to runway 24
Almost finished with pushback
Time to start engines while turning on headlights on front wheels and wings!!
Taxiing to short of runway 24
Holding runway 24 awaiting for take off clearance from airport tower controllers
Take off clearance granted as the plane entered into runwy 24 for take off
Lucky passenger getting glimspe view of runway through passenger window
Nice sky!!
Engines roaring to start take off run
Airborne retracting landing gear with background view of Olso suburb called Bekkestua
Starting climb to FL350 with background view of Olso suburb of Sandvika
Cannot find this in the map so any of you Norwegians can tell where it is
Wing view of lighted city of Drammen with waters of Drammensfjord where you can catch cod, pollock, flounder, and mackerel
Still on climb to FL350
Nice sunrise
Still climbing to FL350 now at FL200
Nice wingview of sunset (I was so excited by view of sunset that I forgot to memorize the name of city on ground)
Now cruising at FL350
Passing YES waypoint above lighted Norwegian city that any of you can
identify for me, please
Nice sunrise view while passing YES waypoint
Cruising at FL350 at mach 0.76 (hey it is new engines that need to
get used to speed)
Cruising
Dig this sunrise!!
Nice wingview of sunrise and town of Røros with about 80 wooden houses and 17th- and 18th-century buildings that has designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Leaving town of Røros
Intercepting TRM waypoint with view of city of Trondheim in front of the plane's nose
Intercepting TRM signaled it was time to start descent from FL350 to FL110
Still descending
Descending through clouds
Now at FL150
Descending and flying through clouds can be dangerous in view
of high Norwegian mountains which means it is essential to
keep eye on approach charts showing heights of mountains while
telling the plane what specific and safe altitude as well as
waypoints the plane should be at
Passing through more clouds while relying on airport approach charts
At 11,000 ft with high mountains looming ahead
Close to mountains!
Manuevering through mountains according to airport approach charts
Wing view showing how high the mountains while passengers' view of
flap degree signals that the airport is getting closer
Making more manuevers through mountains
Wing view of mountains while more degree of flaps is indication
that the airport of destination is getting much more closer
TOUCHDOWN on runway 01
Front landing gear gliding down slowly in most graceful manner
wow they cleared the snow from center of runway resulting into lack
of snow blowing or dust
Braking down toward end of runway for backtracking
Taxiing toward end of runway with background view of route number
682 bridge called Sandnessundbrua that crosses the Sandnes Strait between the islands of Tromsøya and Kvaløya in Tromsø
Backtracking
Still in middle of backtracking
Exiting from runway 01 into taxiway E
More snowblowing due to snow on taxiways E and Y
Exiting from taxiway E into taxiway Y to taxi to gate
Don't you love snow blowing?
Still taxiing
Taxiing past Wideroe maintenance hangar
Airport bulletin board announcing arrival of the plane
Arriving at gate 23
Jetway connecting to the plane (note snow on top of jetway)
Sole passenger waiting for flight to Olso probably to meet his hot
lady for Christmas
Thank you for viewing. Please stay tuned for next exciting flight.
Regards,
Aharon