A little bit of snow at the home ‘drome – it lasted for a day or two:
Meanwhile in Sweden the snow lasts for months. Here’s Siljansnäs (ESVS) from the air:
Just after the snowfall. Andreas in the plough clears the way for Andreas and Sven in the aircraft…
The snow clearance width on the taxiway does look a little tight. But one good thing about snow at minus 10 degrees is that it tends to stay powdery, so if the wingtip does run across the top of the pile there’s no damage…
…although the pitot tube looks like it collected some:
Frozen lake Siljan in the background (lake in lower case as it is just Siljan, not Lake Siljan). The airfield is quite close to the water as it’s on the peninsula called Siljans nose – Siljans näs in Swedish, hence Siljansnäs. Place names are cool…
In January in our part of the UK we’ve only had a handful of nice days in the gaps between the wind and the rain…
The amount of rain led to several flood warnings for the usual suspects. Here’s the River Isla north-west of the airfield:
Meanwhile back in Sweden at Malung airfield – a beautiful day; cold, calm and crisp. Malung is where Robert and I had a fractured english/german/swedish conversation with an airport geezer about potatoes at the other airfield at Dala-Järna…
(See https://www.sigurdmartin.se/2019/08/27/kvallsflyg/ for Malung airfield in the summer…should open a new tab if I’ve got it right 🤞)
Another Sweden pic, another airfield:
This is Älvdalen to the north of (lake) Siljan. If you fly up the river and put the island on your left you will be lined up with the runway. The straight cut out of the trees is quite distinctive.
Älvdalen airfield in the summer can be seen at about the 3:00 mark here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OLlM3j-CQSU&pp=ygUKU2lsamFuc25hc9gG1gE%3D
Flying in Sweden. Great fun, summer or winter. Can’t wait to go back.
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Here’s the original Malung picture:
