After a couple of months in the darkness up North, we are finally moving towards lighter days. Time for a small update with some of the pictures I´ve taken this winter.
As a pilot in Widerøe I basically have to jobs, one summer job and one winter job. Even though the weather can be quite bad during the summer as well, it is during the winter we really get to challenge our pilot skills.
Slippery runways, snow and wind play their part in making sure we don`t always land on time, or even land at all at the intended destination. Fortunately most people up North is used to bad weather, so they are usually pretty relaxed about it. As a passenger in Finnmark put it: "If I was in a hurry, I would have travelled yesterday"
In the good old days they had a more try-and-see attitute towards approach and landing, but as the years have gone by, we have acquired strict guidelines and restrictins for what conditions we can accept, so we often have to calculate on our way to our destination if we are allowed to even try.
And then the pictures...
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Winter wonderland at Mosjøen
Slippery at Brønnøysund
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