by
Kurt Gorm Larsen
A
two day meeting in Trondheim was over, and
my flight
from TRD to OSL
was a
late
afternoon flight with departure 1720. Having
check out of the Rica Nidelven Hotel in Trondheim
after ten in the morning, I walked the couple
of hundreds meters over to Trondheim Central
Station to catch the airport express bus. This
service
runs
every half hour on Saturdays and it takes around
35 minutes to get to the airport - 32
km/20 miles east of Trondheim City centre.
At
11.15 I was check in on the flight - now it
was time for me to start plane spotting. Trondheim
Airport, Værnes is a small hub that links the
STOLports in Nord-Trøndelag and southern part
of Nordland to the rest of the Norwegian domestic
network. Trondheim is also the start/ end point
of the two coastal routes along southern Norway
- SAS Commuter Fokker 50s to Molde (MOL), Bergen
(BGO) and Haugesund (HAU) and SAS Braathens
B737s to Ålesund (AES), Bergen (BGO) and Stavanger
(SVG). Below to the left you see the direct
destinations from Trondheim.
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Five
airlines are serving the domestic market from
TRD and they are:
SAS Braathens, Norwegian, Widerøe (to the STOLports
and TRF), Coast Air and Kato Air.
Three airlines are serving the international
market from TRD and they are:
- Norwegian to STN, MJV and PRG
- KLM to AMS
- Widerøe to CPH
In
addition to the flights mentioned above, a
number of charter airlines are serving
tourist destinations on
the Canary Islands and around the Mediterranean
Ocean.
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The
newest of the three towers at Trondheim Airport,
Værnes
is still not taken into use. |
Starting
out to the east of the new Terminal A I found
this parked Braathens Boeing 737-505 LN-BRD
in
front to the
Braathens hangar. Saturdays a number of the usual
weekday flights is discontinued, and I suspect
this is the reason for it being parked here.
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I
now walked passed the Terminal A in western
direction, crossed
the railway line, along the foot path passing
the
employees parking area
on the
left hand side and continued almost down to the
E6 (Norway's longest highway 2,570 km/1,600 miles
- starting at the Swedish boarder at Svinesund
and
ending
up
way north at
Kirkenes and the Barents Sea almost to the Russian
boarder). A small gravel road along the E6 lead
in to a crash gate and an open area a couple
of
meters
below the taxiway level (marked with green).
This
is my spotting spot for the next hours at TRD.
It is raining more and less the whole time and
we have a very low cloud base with difficult
light
conditions to
get
those great
shots. Close ut to the fence some timer logs
are stacked up, and I climb up on these to get
almost on level with the taxiway just in front
of me. My radio scanner tells me that a number
of aircraft are arriving shortly, so let us get
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11:43:08
First arriving aircraft I got this Saturday is
an KLM Cityhopper Fokker 70 from Amsterdam (AMS).
Notice
the condensation vortex trailing behind the aircraft.
11:43:22
The Fokker 70 starting to flare out.
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11:46:07
Widerøe's Flyveselskap DHC Dash-8-Q400
LN-WDA arriving from Copenhagen (CPH) almost
15 minutes late.
11:48:19 The Q400 is taxiing to the terminal
after having missed vacating the runway at Charlie. |
11:49:41
And this Widerøe Dash-8-100 is practicing the
SHORT LANDING part of STOL arriving from the
STOLport Rørvik (RVK).
11:50:26
Taxiing on Delta and heading for Terminal B. |
11:51:12
Reims F172N LN-HOF from Værnes Flyklubb is making
its rounds, her a "low" pass with a landing 737
close in its heels. |
11:51:47
SAS Braathens Boeing 737-505 LN-BUG arriving
from Bodø (BOO).
11:52:36 And LN-BUG named "Øystein Haraldsson"
on taxiway Charlie heading for Terminal A. |
12:00:15
Half an hour behind schedule DY776 is arriving
from Oslo (OSL) with Boeing 737-36N LN-KKL "Roald
Amundsen". |
12:05:17
Widerøe Dash-8-300 LN-WFC starting to taxi down
Yankee. |
12:07:22
SK4142 arriving from Oslo.
12:07:40 And this on - SAS Braatens Boeing 737-683
"Gisla Viking" - managed to slow down soon enough
to vacate at Charlie. |
12:08:51
WF483 taking off for Sandefjord Airport, Torp
with a colleague of mine on board. |
12:12:21
Kato Air Dornier Do228-200 LN-AAO arriving from
Brønnøysund - charter for Statoil? |
12:28:09
SAS Braathens Boeing 737-505 LN-BRV taking off
for its weekly flight to Alicante (ALC)
as SK4661. |
12:31:06
Widerøe Q400 LN-WDA has been turned around
and is taking off for Copenhagen as WF354.
12:31:10
They have long slender fuselages these Q400s. |
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