stu7708 244 Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 Finally it was time to bring the mysterious ATWC-baton back to Sweden. The last time it was here was way back in section 2 of the second ATWC! I had met up with Kasper and Sharon in the terminal of Fuhlsbüttel-Airport, the Baton was put straight away in to safe storage. I won't be trusting any security guards to look after it this time... Sadly Sharon informed me that she wouldn't join me on this flight. She said something about wanting to revisit the Reeperbahn before she got (and I quote here) "to old for such things"... My disappointment must have been very obvious, so she gave me a quick kiss on the cheek before she headed of, presumably to slip out of that stewardess uniform and in to something more suitable for the Reeperbahn... Finding myself with nothing to disturb me I went ahead and filed my flightplan. Pretty straight forward. Just follow the E45 up to Kiel, then head north along the coast until we hit Danish airspace. Then head roughly north east towards Copenhagen and on to Malmö... and to make things even easier I've got plenty of VORs to follow.. Lets take a look at the airport. We will be parked fairly close to the Hangar, infact I think we are behind it.. must have been some sort of reconstruction made here... And of course the Active is runway 15... wrong way and the longest possible taxi for me... oh well... Here we are now, managed to find my self a nice Cessna 310 for the flight. Engines are running and checklists are complete, lets get going.. Plenty of airport staff riding around on the taxiways here... better stop and let them pass... Passing the terminal on our way to the runway.. plenty of Air Berlin flights in and out of here by the looks of it.. A Lufthansa Cityline climbing out, at a rather steep angle too... And Air France flies here too... heading to Paris if I'm not mistaking.. Finally we have lift off on the third leg.. Climbing out on runway heading while trying to figure out how the autopilot works.... Made it as far as downtown Hamburg before ATC wanted me to turn around. That's lake Alster in the foreground, and the Airbus plant at Finkenwerder might be visible on the far right... And then our camera (FRAPS) died on us.. took us some time to fix it too (realize the problem), so in the next shot we have passed Kiel, managed to find our way in to Danish airspace and are heading north east close to the Great Belt Bridge And looking the other way we find the Island of Langeland As we drew closer to Copenhagen ATC started to step us down from FL090 towards the transition altitude of 5.000 feet. Copenhagen, and Kastrup airport (EKCH), on our left side. Good thing it was a calm day down there as I was heading straight across the extended centerline of 04L and 04R! Time for another bridge, this time the one over to Sweden and over the straights of Öresund. Approach was already guiding me towards my destination. I guess in an attempt to avoid noise over downtown Malmö they started us of on a course south of the city And once we had passed most of it turned us on to a northern course towards Lund And finally an eastbound leg before directing us towards the approach for runway 17 The PAPI-lights say I'm to high, the ILS indicates I'm right on the glideslope... I'll go with what my gut tells me and trust the PAPI-Lights over the ILS this time... A gentle touchdown with plenty of room to spare.. that's probably the smoothest landing I've managed in months... As others have pointed out, Sturup is a great big feast of large yellow buildings... most of them rather ugly actually... Turning of the runway at taxiway Bravo I spot an old beat up Caravelle standing close by.. guess it's used for training the local fire department... Wanting to avoid those rather ugly yellow terminals we head over to the GA section instead... Much more pleasing to the eye, and a more relaxed atmosphere over here... wonder if I can borrow one of those cars though.... It's quite some walk over to the terminal where I'm guessing Sam is waiting for me and the Baton... Sam, if we can't find each other in the main terminal you can find me just south of runway 11! That's it guys, hope you enjoyed the flight! Link to post Share on other sites
Kasper 14 Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 Good flight with great shots! Too bad Sharon wouldn't join you, she is pleasant company - even if a little tense. But if she's up to her old tricks .. Well nothing you can say or do will make her stay. Link to post Share on other sites
UKJim 502 Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 great shots - nice scenery too mate - great flying Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted October 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 Thanks guys. The scenery for EDDH is from Aerosoft. It's in one of their German Airports packages. And from Malmö and onwards, including ESMS, it's the freeware Swe2011 scenery discussed here. Over Denmark it's "only" UTX Europe. Link to post Share on other sites
Jess-b 420 Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 Great read Micke. Loved the scenery. Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 Nice work, Micke. Good scenery too. Very nice flight and well documented. Congrats on the good landing. They don't always go like that. John Link to post Share on other sites
hurricanemk1c 195 Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 Great shots and story Mikael! Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted October 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 Thanks everyone. And considering all the nice comments on the scenery I hope Rob can forgive me for not using his ATWC scenery Link to post Share on other sites
rob16584 42 Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 Good stuff Micke! Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,498 Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 Classic ATWC!, A very enjoyable post Micke, now we are moving along nicely, let's hope Sam is ready to go. Cheers, Joe Link to post Share on other sites
SEATAC 400 Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 Good job Micke! Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted October 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2012 Thanks everybody. Joe: It's been a while since I saw Sam, but atleast he's been online after we published the departure board so he should know he's got a flight comming up.. Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted October 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 Thanks Clem. Link to post Share on other sites
rosariomanzo 545 Posted October 5, 2012 Report Share Posted October 5, 2012 Great flight, captain! Link to post Share on other sites
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