{"id":5946,"date":"2009-06-25T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/arctic-flowers-and-aviation\/"},"modified":"2009-06-25T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T12:33:00","slug":"arctic-flowers-and-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/arctic-flowers-and-aviation\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Flowers and Aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Torejorn is a commuter plane pilot. He flies twin engine turboprops for the local airlines. Flights are short, often just eight minutes. The 38 passenger -8 Bombardier he flies is STOL equipped, and often lands on 800 meter (1\/2 mile) strips with terrain “issues”. This is not a boring job folks.<\/p>\n

Torejorn came by to have a look at Wind Horse<\/em> and we were happy to trade his questions about cruising with our queries about flying in Norway.<\/p>\n

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For those of you who are pilots imagine visual minimum VFR approaches at 105 knots with a 36 knot cross wind, and mountains on two or three sides of the field.<\/p>\n

Turns of he did his pilot training in Tucson, in 1997 (the year Arizona won the NCAA basketball championships!). Torejorn and the family spent a year in Tucson.<\/p>\n

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Torejorn offered to show us around Tromso. First stop was an amazing Arctic botanical garden.<\/p>\n

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These flowers and the rest which follow are all found in the Arctic regions.<\/p>\n

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