ARCTIC EXPERIENCE - NORWAY
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Dutch Aviation MEDIA 2012
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Arctic
Experience ! The Italian Aeronautica & Difesa dedicates six
pages to these visits in a cold Norway. |
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The
visits inplicated the Airbases of Rygge, Bardufoss and Gardermoen. |
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Read
all about white-out, patrols, the flying school and more through the
arctic. |
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Also
the permanent English detachment under Commodore David West has been
described in this article. |
For
the article and info scroll down please, an extended photographic
impression and light comments will follow, |
in
a 7 pages counting overview and photographic impressing impressions
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IN ARCTIC
ZONEI
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As
you can see here the men (and women) are trained exeptional in
surviving the Norwegian Cold by wading into icecold water and
sleeping in a self dug hole in the snow. It was almost 30 degrees
below zero when we visited... days-over ! |
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Lynx
helicopters of the Norwegian Coastguard. Town out of the hangar to
start their daily tasks... |
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flying patrol routes and being alert on reports about people in
need, medevac flights and all that happens. |
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After
the flights the machines often have to be cleaned from snow and ice
to be operational any minute again. |
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Flying
with the Norwegians, joining a two hours patrol and exercise in
white-out experience will be shown... |
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A
quick hello to the Hurtigruten, a well known ferry-boat in the
Norwegian waters / fjords. |
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The
bell 412 follows it's way to inhospital area with thick snow layers,
we flew with them in a white-out exercise ! |
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Recently
Norway received it's first NH-90 helicopters, with delay as most
other countries. See next pages. |
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The
upper North of Norway is not quite 'next-door', it was special to
have this italian C-27 Spartan at Bardufoss |
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(For
a special of this type see on this website 'Piloot en Vliegtuig') |
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The
Spartan was flying quite active and frequent, though the character
of the mission itself was not clear to us. |
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