Hi all.
Last weekend, the wife and me took a trip up to the frozen lake "Femunden" in here in Norway.
There, a 700 meter runway is cleared for snow on the frozen lake not far from the small community "Elgaa" where approx 40 people live.
Here's the RV sitting by the threshold of RWY 36:
And here is the same place taken from shore. Our trusty RV sure spent the night far from the shore! You can just barely see the plane as a small black spot in the middle of the pic.
Here's the community Elgaa with the runway:
And here's where we spent the night: a small "mountain hotel" named Femund Fjellstue. Web: www.femundfjellstue.no
We had the most delicous dinner and our hosts where REALLY nice people: (the two by the end of the table closest to the camera)
She grew up on Madagaskar as a missonaire-child and he has been a cook on a Norwegain submarine.
After their kids left home, they ended up here.
Their place is by far the most friendly and nice one I have ever experienced!
When we left for home, I had a feeling that we had been visiting friends rather than renting a room...
During a walk in the woods there, we saw tracks after several lynx and we even saw the "forest-king" himself:
People there are feeding the mooses during winter so they won't damage the small trees so much (by eating on them) and they told us that they often saw 30 to 40 (!) mooses coming to eat when they was delivering food. The mooses would get into a distance of 10 to 20 feet!
The mooses stood there paitently waiting for the food to be offloaded as long as the engine on the delivery-truck was running. If you stopped the engine, they would all run away!
I guess they had learned that a man in a machine is not dangerous, but a man on foot is....
We saw one of the smallest cabins I have ever seen with a pair of pretty cool skies outside:
Before engine start the next morning, we borrowed a gasoline-driven aggregate for our electric engine heater for a couple of hours:
The navigator found the way home:
(She flew on the way up there while I was navigating, and we swooped roles during the flight home)
We flew at Fl 100 due to favorable winds:
And when the sun approached the horizon, we approached our home airport.
What a great plane the RV is!
By the way: the runway is located at 62.10N and 011.56E so I'm wondering if we made a small "world record" in landing a RV-7 farther north than anyone have done before us?
I guess the most northern parts of Canada is farther north than 62.10 but have anyone landed a RV-7 there?
Jan Johanson sure landed MUCH farther north than us, but that was with a -4... and since we have the only flying -7 in Norway I wonder if we can call this a small word record??
Anyway; it was a very nice way to spend a weekend!
Hope it inspires some of you folks to come up and visit us with your RV's! You are most welcome! Even without an RV!
Last weekend, the wife and me took a trip up to the frozen lake "Femunden" in here in Norway.
There, a 700 meter runway is cleared for snow on the frozen lake not far from the small community "Elgaa" where approx 40 people live.
Here's the RV sitting by the threshold of RWY 36:
And here is the same place taken from shore. Our trusty RV sure spent the night far from the shore! You can just barely see the plane as a small black spot in the middle of the pic.
Here's the community Elgaa with the runway:
And here's where we spent the night: a small "mountain hotel" named Femund Fjellstue. Web: www.femundfjellstue.no
We had the most delicous dinner and our hosts where REALLY nice people: (the two by the end of the table closest to the camera)
She grew up on Madagaskar as a missonaire-child and he has been a cook on a Norwegain submarine.
After their kids left home, they ended up here.
Their place is by far the most friendly and nice one I have ever experienced!
When we left for home, I had a feeling that we had been visiting friends rather than renting a room...
During a walk in the woods there, we saw tracks after several lynx and we even saw the "forest-king" himself:
People there are feeding the mooses during winter so they won't damage the small trees so much (by eating on them) and they told us that they often saw 30 to 40 (!) mooses coming to eat when they was delivering food. The mooses would get into a distance of 10 to 20 feet!
The mooses stood there paitently waiting for the food to be offloaded as long as the engine on the delivery-truck was running. If you stopped the engine, they would all run away!
I guess they had learned that a man in a machine is not dangerous, but a man on foot is....
We saw one of the smallest cabins I have ever seen with a pair of pretty cool skies outside:
Before engine start the next morning, we borrowed a gasoline-driven aggregate for our electric engine heater for a couple of hours:
The navigator found the way home:
(She flew on the way up there while I was navigating, and we swooped roles during the flight home)
We flew at Fl 100 due to favorable winds:
And when the sun approached the horizon, we approached our home airport.
What a great plane the RV is!
By the way: the runway is located at 62.10N and 011.56E so I'm wondering if we made a small "world record" in landing a RV-7 farther north than anyone have done before us?
I guess the most northern parts of Canada is farther north than 62.10 but have anyone landed a RV-7 there?
Jan Johanson sure landed MUCH farther north than us, but that was with a -4... and since we have the only flying -7 in Norway I wonder if we can call this a small word record??
Anyway; it was a very nice way to spend a weekend!
Hope it inspires some of you folks to come up and visit us with your RV's! You are most welcome! Even without an RV!
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