I´ve finally started producing something for Widerøe. My first week at work ended up being 4 days of flying, all of them out of Bodø.
They gave me Tromsø as my base, but because they don´t have enough instructors there, I was sent down to Bodø on Thursday to fly my first flight on Friday. I got two flights out to Svolvær and one out to Leknes, both of them in Lofoten. The weather could not have been better for my introduction, with almost no wind and high clouds.
Both Svolvær and Leknes are short fields of between 800 and 900 meters, and considering the topography around is fairly dramatic it can pose quite the challenge when the weather rolls in over Lofoten.
Saturday and Monday I got more trips out to Svolvær and Leknes. Not a great deal of variation, but as these are short sectors of around 20 minutes in the air, they are ideal for instruction.
Tuesday was the last day of my work week. Having a check in time in Bodø of 0445 to fly down towards Trondheim, the alarm was set to go off early. The weather was far from good, with mostly clouds and visibility down towards minima at most of our destinations. We didn´t even try to get into Møsjoen, as the clouds were so low and the visibility so bad that they couldn´t even take off from there. We just manged to get into Namsos, while the weather in Trondheim posed no problems. After a breakfast break at Værnes we flew back North again, but the weather did not show any signs of improvement. We had to overfly Mosjøen once again, and after two missed approaches into Mo i Rana because of lack of visual references, we had to divert to Sandnessjøen and send the passengers to their destinations in taxis.
The advantage with early starts is an early finish, so I managed to get on the 1240 flight home to Oslo. Now I have a week off before I do another week at work :)
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Final runway 01 Svolvær. The runway is on the right side of the closest peninsula
Just after departing Svolvær
Approach into Leknes
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