Nine landings and ready to go

Today I did the combined type check of C172 on floats and season check at Kilen Seaplane Club. First Arne the LN-AEG owner gave me an introduction. 55 minutes and nine landings later Kjell gave me the formal signatures.

Potluck Fly-in

Rolf and his tax free goods from Jönköping International Airport (ESGJ). He used to be my professor at BI Centre for Media Economics, now he is affiliated with the Media Management and Transformation Centre at Jönköping International Business School. I was MMTC Visiting Scholar earlier this spring, and yesterday we flew in for the MMTC Potluck. Route information and more images at Flickr.

Promoting MAF at Kjeller Air Show

15,000 people attended the annual Kjeller Air Show on a beautiful Sunday. Dag Kjetil and I represented MAF. More pictures at RB.no.

New times at Näsinge

My last logbook entry from Näsinge (ESGS) is a few years back. Today we drove by - by car, and learned that tings have changed. The sailplanes are not longer welcome. Most have moved to Notodden or Starmoen in Norway. And grand plans of transforming the grass field to a hard surface airport are developed by local businesses and the municipality. Grants from the European Union are also expected. In the mean time life is slow at Näsinge, and the local grocery store closed a couple of years ago. No ice cream outlet was the most dramatic change for Jostein (in the picture).

Ready for the sea season

Today I got confirmation of being one of five pilots flying LN-AEG (C172) this season. 20 hours are reserved. Now, let's hope the summer arrives soon...

Swedish Tour Restricted by Heavy Rain

Last week the runway at ESSI cracked due to drought. Yesterday 49 millimeters of rain fell, and today only one of the grass runways was usable. All other grass strips in the area was not operative, and a low cloud base to the east restricted our original plan to visit most local fields surrounding the two major Swedish lakes Vänern and Vättern.

Visingsö and its beautiful airfield dating back to the 30's definitely live up to its slogan as Vätterns Pearl, and will be visited again.

Route: Kjeller (ENKJ)- Arvika (ESKV) - Skövde (ESGR) - Falköping (ESGK) - Visingsö (ESSI) - Trollhättan (ESGT) - Baldersnäs - Arvika (ESKV) - Kjeller (ENKJ)
Aircrafts: LN-NAG and SE-GAN