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Finnair [AY644] ARL- HEL [ESSA-EFHK] pt1 (Read 376 times)
Nov 6th, 2004 at 9:18pm

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* Aircraft: Flight1 ATR 72-500
* Route: ESSA-EFHK [Stockholm-Helsinki]
* Carrier: Finnair
* Flight #: AY644
* Departure time: 08.40 (local) at Gate 63

Our brand new Regional prop, fresh from the factory Smiley
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Doing the standard pre-flight check, departure runway and route/flight# matches  Smiley
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Just out of Hotel mode, both engines are spinning and we're cleared to taxi to the active, which is 01L.
We were lucky to receive an earlier slot time we overtook an SAS MD87 that encontered a circuit break in the avionics bay.
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Another shot of a typical Finnair workhorse!
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V1, rotate..positive rate gear up! In the background you can see an SAS A330 that flies the transatlantic routes   Smiley
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Climbing to our assigned flight level, which is FL210
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Interior shot, about to pass transition altitude which is 5000ft.
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Reply #1 - Nov 6th, 2004 at 11:25pm

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Nice shots and good story to go along with Smiley
 
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Reply #2 - Nov 7th, 2004 at 12:35pm
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Great shots! Grin
 
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