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To start, is "bought" the right word? Or rather "to purchase", it sounds so weird right now...
Anyway, let me introduce how my dad got himself so far to buy one:
A few years ago, when we still lived in Belgium, my father was having plans for moving to Norway for a long time. Mainly because the people said to him that he would be allowed to start his own company, a company where he would be flying an airplane. I don't know exactly how he got it into his head of becoming a pilot but it has been popular in our family. My dad's father was a pilot himself, my dad's brother is a pilot at DHL and flies with big Airbusses.
Anyway, in just 9 months, my dad had obtained a basic license, restricted to privat use only and one propeller, no turbo planes only as well. So by the time we got into Norway, my dad was tremendously exited about starting the little company (though he was restricted to privat use only, he obtained those company rights later on). My dad went to the owner who brought up those plans but suddenly, he acted like he never heard of those plans (duchman of course...No offense!). Of course, my dad was angry about that, so for a year, discussions had been going on, and on. However, by searching up some documents and information, we found out that the owner of the hotel and airstrip (correct word?), recieved milliones of kroners for investment, yet he never used them. Instead, he put them in his own pocket...
Anyway, we got the community so far to start up a "Flyclub", everybody wanted to have it in our community as since 1951, number of citizens in our village have been going down ever since (1,700 in 1951, 1,400 in 2005). Everybody is glad someone finally makes the step to try and make Fyresdal, that's our village, more attractive to tourists.
The little plane my father has bought, or purchased, is a Cessna 177 Cardinal. That's how it's called as far as I know, I tried to search for more info and found out that our plane is the "177-RG" model. Greycap or Duke may be able to identify the airplane once I got some pictures of it uploaded. As I'm typing this, my dad's about to leave from the airport with it. That airport is 6 hours driving from here so it'll take at least 30 minutes with bearing in mind that Norwegian roads are NOT straight.
There's always the thought that something could happen to him but I try to look at it positively, like for example that this is a chance to spend even more time with my dad and who knows, I might even discover wether I'll be a pilot or not soon...
Anyway, let me introduce how my dad got himself so far to buy one:
A few years ago, when we still lived in Belgium, my father was having plans for moving to Norway for a long time. Mainly because the people said to him that he would be allowed to start his own company, a company where he would be flying an airplane. I don't know exactly how he got it into his head of becoming a pilot but it has been popular in our family. My dad's father was a pilot himself, my dad's brother is a pilot at DHL and flies with big Airbusses.
Anyway, in just 9 months, my dad had obtained a basic license, restricted to privat use only and one propeller, no turbo planes only as well. So by the time we got into Norway, my dad was tremendously exited about starting the little company (though he was restricted to privat use only, he obtained those company rights later on). My dad went to the owner who brought up those plans but suddenly, he acted like he never heard of those plans (duchman of course...No offense!). Of course, my dad was angry about that, so for a year, discussions had been going on, and on. However, by searching up some documents and information, we found out that the owner of the hotel and airstrip (correct word?), recieved milliones of kroners for investment, yet he never used them. Instead, he put them in his own pocket...
Anyway, we got the community so far to start up a "Flyclub", everybody wanted to have it in our community as since 1951, number of citizens in our village have been going down ever since (1,700 in 1951, 1,400 in 2005). Everybody is glad someone finally makes the step to try and make Fyresdal, that's our village, more attractive to tourists.
The little plane my father has bought, or purchased, is a Cessna 177 Cardinal. That's how it's called as far as I know, I tried to search for more info and found out that our plane is the "177-RG" model. Greycap or Duke may be able to identify the airplane once I got some pictures of it uploaded. As I'm typing this, my dad's about to leave from the airport with it. That airport is 6 hours driving from here so it'll take at least 30 minutes with bearing in mind that Norwegian roads are NOT straight.
There's always the thought that something could happen to him but I try to look at it positively, like for example that this is a chance to spend even more time with my dad and who knows, I might even discover wether I'll be a pilot or not soon...
