* 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


Doing the standard pre-flight check, departure runway and route/flight# matches


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.

Another shot of a typical Finnair workhorse!

V1, rotate..positive rate gear up! In the background you can see an SAS A330 that flies the transatlantic routes


Climbing to our assigned flight level, which is FL210

Interior shot, about to pass transition altitude which is 5000ft.
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