My Grand Norway Tour

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I like to spend some time studying the regions where I fly. So I decided to take my Icon A5 and go on a Norway tour. I fly with landmarks only by Alt-Tab-ing with Bing maps, no compass, no GPS - and most important no pause when on Bing maps. Therefore I planned my tour accordingly and each leg should be around 1.5-2h, which includes the usual getting-lost detours.

Tour Plan: Tromso(ENTC)-Gradussan(ENEN)-Rossvoll(ENRA)-Namsos(ENMM)-Fagerhaug(ENOP)-Haukasen(ENSG)-Sola(ENSV)

Conditions: Broken Clouds, each start at 10am. Broken clouds make it a bit harder and visually more pleasing.

 

Start 1st leg: Tromso. Tromso is a cultural centre in the polar region of Norway and famous for spotting polar lights. With a population of 71.590 it is 12th most populous municipality in Norway. Despite its location, Tromso has a warmer climate than most locations on the same latitude due the the effect of the gulf stream. Tromso airport was opened in 1964 and its lowest ever temperature recording was −20.1 °C (−4.2 °F) in February 1985. This is where my journey will start tomorrow

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Edited September 3, 2020 by M-Air Bush Deliveries Ltd

[kaha 205]

Why not live weather? Otherwise it's not realy realistic?

Karl

[M-Air Bush Deliveries Ltd 50]

10 hours ago, kaha said:

Why not live weather? Otherwise it's not realy realistic?

Karl

I will be on the ground for days if it does not play ball. Or it will be too easy on clear days to do landmark VFR in Norway (nothing but huge distinct water bodies and mountains)

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Tromso(ENTC) - Eneves/Harstad(ENE)

Starting from Tromso, which turns out has midnight sun in summer and months of absolute darkness in winter, the original plan to go to Gradussan was canceled due to fuel concerns. The new destination was Harstad(ENEV), an international airport located in Evenes Municipality. While this sound big, the airport is basically in the middle of nowhere for central european standards. Its remote location is deceiving however, since its purpose is to serve as a hub for the larger cities of Narvik and Harstad. To put it into a norwegian perspective though, Harstad is 35km away from the airport. Talk about sparsely populated areas, aye?

The flight itself was very relaxing, even if flown without GPS/compass and only using a map to navigate by landmarks. As oppose to other areas, the large water bodies and mountain ranges help a lot. Spectacular broken clouds added some difficulty and made it interesting though. Last but not least, they served for good images.

This is Tenevol. A settlement with 307 inhabitants and it only counts as a settlement for statistical reasons in Norway. I did not know it exists, now I do.

And finally, arrival in ENEV, where the start of Leg 2 will be. 

Edited September 4, 2020 by M-Air Bush Deliveries Ltd

[Andreas Stangenes 1,628]

Good show, and good luck! 🙂 I like it! 

[Novation 534]

Very nice!  I've been doing a few flights in Norway myself and it's been a fantastic place to fly over and explore.

[ThomseN_inc 1,128]

Great! "Roadtrips" in MSFS are really fun. I just completed my trip from Northern Germany to Gran Canaria in the XCub which lead me across France, Spain, Morocco and parts of the atlantic ocean.

[SirDan 471]

Very nice , keep it up. Looking good!

[RustyFlyer 182]

Great post... totally love the shots!

Wouldn't this post be a better fit in the Screenshots forum though? Perhaps a new Screenshot sub-forum for MFS '20 shots might be a consideration for the Avsim folks, eh?

I can see the MFS '20 forum starting to become a bit sprawling...

Edited September 4, 2020 by RustyFlyer

[guibru 474]

Made rather stop in Ålesund, already made but in real.

[kiki 89]

5 hours ago, Novation said:

Very nice!  I've been doing a few flights in Norway myself and it's been a fantastic place to fly over and explore.

Absolutely! But sadly the mesh in Norway (as in other Nordic countries) needs a lot of work.

Edited September 4, 2020 by kiki

[Cyrex1984 176]

Almost all of Norway is broken because of water heightdata.

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Eneves/Harstad(ENEV) - Gradussan(ENEN)

This trip concluded my journey to Gradussan, which was planned on leg 1 but was stopped short for fuel concerns. I only travel with 10 Gallons in my Icon A5, so planning getting-lost buffers is important. Since Eneves to Gradussan is a rather short trip as the crow flies, I decided to take a detour through the towering mountain range that hugs the large Eneves bay. This also gave me an opportunity to visit Narvik, a town that other countries would call industrial town and which is located on the other end of the bay. The mountains were spectacular (topo mesh mess-ups aside ;)), and only lifted to jaw-dropping heights by the broken clouds hugging them. Once I arrived in Gradussan, I was blown away by the little island. More interesting were the strange circles that I spotted. It turns out, in World War II the germans installed giant guns there, I supposed an anti-air guns. Crazy idiots as they were back then, the projectiles fired from those things were man sized. Shows you that size does not matter, does it? This revelation aside, another finding was that there is absolutely nothing near the airstrip. In fact the airstrip is privately owned and usually in such a bad shape, that if you get permission to land there, they have to mown the lawn. Well, I got permission, but did not even find the parking to complete my log.

Gradussan and the big gun

On the way to Gradussan

Narvik (which seems to be an industrial harbor town with even uglier satellite imagery)

Mountains (every lake there ends on ....net or ...javvre!? Must be a thing there.)

For the next leg I changed my plan again because I noticed I am right next to the Lofoten. There is not missing them and the most 'special' stadion in the world.

 

 

 

Edited September 4, 2020 by M-Air Bush Deliveries Ltd

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4 hours ago, ThomseN_inc said:

Great! "Roadtrips" in MSFS are really fun. I just completed my trip from Northern Germany to Gran Canaria in the XCub which lead me across France, Spain, Morocco and parts of the atlantic ocean.

It's real fun, is not it. I also did a lot of other trips before the Norway trip. Small issue is, that all starts to look the same. So I decided to make actual tour plans and read up about the region and so on. Immersionx100

[Novation 534]

4 hours ago, kiki said:

Absolutely! But sadly the mesh in Norway (as in other Nordic countries) needs a lot of work.

I must have been lucky in my flights there so far, as I only saw one major anomaly.