Join us as we kick off a new series with Widerøe, Norway’s amazing little airline flying the Dash 8 and Embraer E2 around some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Today we’re at the airline’s headquarters in Bodø, just above the Arctic Circle in northern Norway.
Join Gabe Leigh as he visits their simulator and cabin trainer, walks through a lot of confusing tunnels and corridors, checks out the OCC (operations control center) and tours the hangars where work gets done on the Dash 8 fleet. Most interesting of all is the Dash 8 life extension program, which is seeing these veteran Dash 8s get heavy maintenance allowing them to fly beyond their originally designed limit for pressurization cycles. In most cases that means going from 80,000 to 120,000 cycles, but Widerøe is also beginning a programme for the first time ever in the world of extending some of their oldest aircraft up to 160,000 cycles. We’ll take an inside look at all of that today. Hope you enjoy. signage stickers in the cabin, AND a brand new livery, revealed for the first time here. Join us in and around this lovely old bird as she gets fixed up for more years of service. Isn’t it great to know this one will be flying for some time yet?
