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Shalom and greetings all my pals, Presenting pre-Christmas flight from ENFB Fornebu Oslo Airport which was the primary international airport serving Oslo 1939 to 1998 locating at Fornebu 5.0 miles from the city center of Oslo to ENTC Tromsø Airport situated on the western shore of the island of Tromsøya and located at Langnes in the city of Tromsø in Tromsø Municipality, Norway The flight was supposed to be served by 737-500 but because too many people working in Oslo are going home to their families in Tromso for Christmas forcing the airline to switch from 735 to brand new 767-200 to handle volume traffic of holiday travellers. Gate number 38 finished disconnecting from the plane fully and heavily boarded with excited passengers enjoying the factory fresh scent of interior of the new plane with tons tons of Christmas presents in its luggage holds. Being pushbacked by tug Pushback tug changing the direction of push back so that the plane would face proper taxi path to runway 24 Almost finished with pushback Time to start engines while turning on headlights on front wheels and wings!! Taxiing to short of runway 24 Holding runway 24 awaiting for take off clearance from airport tower controllers Take off clearance granted as the plane entered into runwy 24 for take off Lucky passenger getting glimspe view of runway through passenger window Nice sky!! Engines roaring to start take off run Airborne retracting landing gear with background view of Olso suburb called Bekkestua Starting climb to FL350 with background view of Olso suburb of Sandvika Cannot find this in the map so any of you Norwegians can tell where it is Wing view of lighted city of Drammen with waters of Drammensfjord where you can catch cod, pollock, flounder, and mackerel Still on climb to FL350 Nice sunrise Still climbing to FL350 now at FL200 Nice wingview of sunset (I was so excited by view of sunset that I forgot to memorize the name of city on ground) Now cruising at FL350 Because of forum regulations not permitting more than 20 screenshots per post, please be kind enough to go to this hyperlink to view rest of the flight and exciting touchdown. Here is the link: https://calclassic.proboards.com/thread/11108/christmas-flight-culminated-raising-approach Regards, Aharon

Shalom and greetings all my pals, The hotels in ski areas around Telluride are having serious shortage of beer, wines, and liquors so they asked their chief alcohol distribution center in Las Vegas to have last minute emergency cargo delivery of those stuff. Presenting last minute emergency cargo hauling from KLAS McCarran International Airport located in Paradise about 5 miles south of Downtown Las Vegas to KMTJ Montrose Regional Airport located on the northwest side of Montrose in southwestern Colorado Airborne on climb to FL350 with background view of entire city of Las Vegas and the airport of departure visible above the fin on top of the plane Passing the same places seen below the plane while still climbing to FL350 Passing waters of Las Vegas Bay where you can see Lakeshore Road below the engine Passing Colorado River while cruising at FL350 Passing waters of Grand Bay Wash Bay Cruising past above desert of Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument Yep Colorado River is very long across few states as the plane passes that river Cruising at FL350 carrying tons tons tons of bottles of beer, wine, and liquor Passing famed Grand Canyon National Park Passing waters of Lake Powell Passing Glen Caynon Dam seen behind right wing's tip and KPGA Page Municipal Airport located mile east of Page in Coconino County, Arizona seen on lower left corner of screenshot Powell Lake is huge!!! You can tell from snow that the plane is approaching Colorado Descending from FL350 to FL200 Making lots of turns toward the airport of destination Passing Delta suburb of Montrose on way to the airport runway 17 On final runway approach past mountains of Gunnison Gorge National Park Seconds before touchdown Because of regulations not allowing more than 20 screenshots per post, please be kind enough to go to this hyperlink below to view rest of the flight. Here is the link: http://tonymadgehjg.proboards.com/thread/8714/last-minute-cargo-delivery-service Thank you for viewing!! Stay tuned for next exciting flight!!! Regards, Aharon