Sæbø 360

Flying over the Alpine landscape of Northwestern Norway on a beautiful day with my aunt Liv. We did the Sunnmøre-in-a-Nutshell tour of Volda, Hjørundfjorden, Ålesund, Runde and return to ENOV. I am very glad LN-ASH finally started after several failed attempts. An old C172 without heater is not my premiere choice of aircraft on a cold and crisp Easter morning.

So long snow, hello spring

Spring equinox started as a snowy day in Oslo, hence our planned lunch in Stockholm had to be cancelled. While the showers travelled eastbound, Einar and I flew southbound for my first landing at Gullknapp (ENGK). South of the summer paradise Jomfruland we had blue skies, and returning by smooth air to Kjeller via Geiteryggen, the bad weather was long gone.

Happy B-day, Jonas!

Jostein gave Jonas a flight for his 9th birthday. The party was Friday night, and Saturday morning we flew over his house at Høybråten.

A fun flight over Norway's capital Oslo, and the boys did not seem to worry about a few bumps after take-off at Kjeller due to variable x-wind.

Flying Down Under and over Manhattan

My pre-blog online tales of flying in Australia and New York disappeared from the Internet when my old home page host Start.no closed their service. Now the stories (in Norwegian) are back online at the krumsvik.com domain:

• Flyferie Down Under (Flynytt 4/2001)
• I en Skyhawk over Manhattan (11/2004)

Happy B-Day, Tobias!

Jostein gave Tobias a flight for his 9th birthday. The party was yesterday, and today we had a nice flight over Oslo, and a spectacular view of the new Holmenkollen ski jump in CAVOK and calm wind.

A view of aviation history at Lanzarote

A short walk from terminal to terminal represents a journey through aviation history. The aviation museum located in the first passenger building built at Lanzarote airport in the early 1940s is just across the parking lot from the 1999 international passenger terminal with a capacity of six million passengers per annum. The Guacimeta terminal museum provides a comprehensive insight into the history of aviation under the shadow of the volcanoes. It is open from 10am to 2pm from Monday to Saturday.

English guided tours might be recommended as all the displays are in Spanish only. However, I do not think too much was lost in translation as I browsed the displays on my own. This time I did not have time to visit the third terminal from the 70s, now used for inter island traffic.

Next time I might expand my GCLB flying experience to some inter island flying my self.

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