Pre-Christmas Flight Culminated With Hair Raising Approach And Exciting Touchdown at Aerosoft Tromso X

[Aharon 465]

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

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 glimpse 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