Finnair Having Exciting Debut With Brand New Caravelle

[aharon]

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting faithfully accurate historic recreation of one of very first fights flown by Finnair airline's brand new first Caravelle which was from EFHK Helsinki-Vantaa Airport located in the neighbouring city of Vantaa 10.6 miles north of center of Helsinki to ESSA Stockholm Arlanda Airport located near the town of Märsta 23 miles north of Stockholm.

Originally I thought the flight mentioned above was also first commercial flight flown by Finnair's first Caravelle which was the reason I recreated the flight and made screenshots out of it but after discussion with Finnish Aviation museum, the museum officials told me that the actual first flight flown by Finnair's first Caravelle was on 1 Apr 60 from Helsinki to Copenhagen but they assured me that the route from EFHK to ESSA was one of first routes offered by Finnair's first Caravelle.

Presenting exciting recreation of one of the first flights by Finnair's first Caravelle

Finishing pushback from gate 28



Nice wing view of the airport



Turning on headlights



Check out brand new tires!!



Another wing view of the airport



You can see the new headlight!



Starting engines which result into white smoke as result of
freezing winter weather



Making long taxi to short of runway 04R



Still taxiing while following well lighted taxiway strobe markings



Notice the registration number of Finnair's first Caravelle



What do you expect from Finnish winter full of high snows?



Arriving at short of runway 04R holding position awaiting for
take off clearance from EFHK airport tower controllers



Still holding yeah EFHK is busy airport!!



Check out DHL trucks in background



Take off clearance is granted and time to enter into
runway for take off!!



Roaring down the runway spewing snow dust during take off run



Airbore on climb to FL240 retracting its landing gear



Still climbing with background view of highway route number 45



Making left 180 degree turn toward west



Still in middle of the left turn while the plane's right wing
is being engulfed by clouds



Almost finished with the left 180 degree turn



Now on straight westward path to Sweden with background
view of entire city of Helsinki and its airport where
you can see highwqay route number E12 running from
bottom of screenshot straight to the center of the capital



Another view of same area with background view of sunrise



Now cruising at mach 0.71 at FL240



Sun is rising



Nice wing view of sunrise



Cruising past some Finnish towns



Cruising



Crossing Baltic sea which signals time to descend



Passing Aland islands seen in background during descent



Now at 5,000 ft



Now at 3,000 ft



Passing some tiny Swedish town



Makng left turn to get ready for final runway
approach to runway 19R



Now on final runway approach





Seconds before touchdown



Ok ok one second more before touchdown



TOUCHDOWN



Braking down spewing snow dust



Don't you love snow dust blowing??



Exiting from runway 19R on way to gate



Still taxiing to gate





Approaching passenger apron





Arrived at gate!!



Thank you for viewing. Stay tuned for next exciting
flight. Thanks to Finnish Aviation museum for assisting
me in history of Finnair airline's use of Caravelles

Regards,

Aharon

[JasonK..AKA "Pal Joey."]

but after discussion with Finnish Aviation museum, the museum officials told me that the actual first flight flown by Finnair's first Caravelle was on 1 Apr 60 from Helsinki to Copenhagen but they assured me that the route from EFHK to ESSA was one of first routes offered by Finnair's first Caravelle.

By this comment I take it You're not just flying some random flight or a flight you've read about, you get down in the weeds with it?

[aharon]

Jun 3, 2023 11:54:17 GMT -5 JasonK..AKA "Pal Joey." said:

By this comment I take it You're not just flying some random flight or a flight you've read about, you get down in the weeds with it?

I am sorry but I do not understand your question particularly your use of the word "weeds"

I simply recreated the real world historic flight of Finnair's new and first Caravelle using EFHK to ESSA out of the Finnair timetable which was one of first routes offered by Finnair's first Caravelle in 1960s if that is the answer to your question that you want to know or otherwise I do not understand your question and the "weeds" remark.

Regards,

Aharon

[Jorge]

Jun 3, 2023 11:54:17 GMT -5 JasonK..AKA "Pal Joey." said:

... you get down in the weeds with it?

It's an American expression.

It basically means if you went down to the finer details of something. In this case, I'm guessing he's wondering if you got input from the museum on routing, altitudes flown, speeds, time of departure, weather, etc, etc.

Or if you didn't, did you get finer details of the flight from other sources before you went and recreated the flight.

At least that's my understanding, anyway.

Love the lighting effects, by the way!

Jorge
Miami, FL

[JasonK..AKA "Pal Joey."]

It's an American expression.

It basically means if you went down to the finer details of something. In this case, I'm guessing he's wondering if you got input from the museum on routing, altitudes flown, speeds, time of departure, weather, etc, etc.

Or if you didn't, did you get finer details of the flight from other sources before you went and recreated the flight.

At least that's my understanding, anyway.

Yeah, Thats what I meant, thanks Jorge. Sorry about that. My point was that after reading that comment I see you put a whole lot more into your screenshots than what I thought. Thus giving me a whole different level to appreciate them on. In short, Fantastic as always and keep them coming.

[Tom/CalClassic]

I always thought the way they brought the cheat line over the cockpit was an interesting variation I haven't seen elsewhere.

[aharon]

Jun 3, 2023 12:25:57 GMT -5 Jorge said:

It's an American expression.

It basically means if you went down to the finer details of something. In this case, I'm guessing he's wondering if you got input from the museum on routing, altitudes flown, speeds, time of departure, weather, etc, etc.

Or if you didn't, did you get finer details of the flight from other sources before you went and recreated the flight.

Jorge,

Ahhhh thanks for explanation on weeds. I thought he was asking me if I was smoking pot!! I never touch pot!!

The information that I got from the Finnish Aviation museum was the answer to my question that I asked the museum what was Finnair's very first commercial flight using Caravelle 1A. When I told them I thought that was from Helsinki to Stockholm. They said that EFHK to ESSA was one of the first routes offered by Finnair Caravelle but NOT first commercial flight which actually was from Helsinki to Denmark's EKCH.

Cruising speed, cruising altitude, and realism of flying dynamics were from Caravelle manuals. Everything was realistic. The departure time and arrival time were also realistic as they were from Finnair timetables.

The only two things that I do NOT know are specific gate numbers of the two airports and the weather. Because I was using Vatsim, I was required to use present day live weather conditions and winds which dictated the specific use of specific runway numbers.

Jun 3, 2023 12:25:57 GMT -5 Jorge said:

Love the lighting effects, by the way!

Thank you for your kind words, Jorge

Jun 3, 2023 14:38:36 GMT -5 JasonK..AKA "Pal Joey." said:

Yeah, Thats what I meant, thanks Jorge. Sorry about that. My point was that after reading that comment I see you put a whole lot more into your screenshots than what I thought. Thus giving me a whole different level to appreciate them on. In short, Fantastic as always and keep them coming.

Jason,

Thanks for your kind. I enjoy recreating flights in most realistic manner. Have I met you somewhere on the Internet?? Your name looks familiar to me. Is that you with signature showing 707??

Regards,

Aharon

[Jorge]

No worries, Aharon!

Keep them coming!

Jorge
Miami, FL

[qxtoolman]

Nice Shots!! Keep this up and You will become an official Suomi Poika. Hyvää päivää - Good Day in Finnish Stefan

[nmlw]

A nice flight and beautiful shots of it Aharon.

[JasonK..AKA "Pal Joey."]

Jason,

Thanks for your kind. I enjoy recreating flights in most realistic manner. Have I met you somewhere on the Internet?? Your name looks familiar to me. Is that you with signature showing 707??

Yeah, sorry for all the confusion and any offense it may have caused. I am on other sites that you are also on, but haven't visited them in a long while and usually just lurk, but no 707 signature..

[aharon]

NMLW,

Thanks for your kind words.

Jason,

No need to apologize. You are right to ask me whether I was using real world realism or not. I do use real world realism as described above in my answer to Jorge.

Regards,

Aharon

[PeteHam]

Stunning pics Aharon.

[aharon]

Peteham,

Thanks for your kind words.

Regards,

Aharon