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| At Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in a Blue1 Avro RJ-100 (Helsinki-Dubrovnik is a planned Blue1 route for 2009) | Starting the engines... | ...and heading for nearby runway 22L |
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| Arriving at the runway | ||
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| The jet engines kick up a spray of water from the wet taxiway | Lining up... | ...and rolling |
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| Taking off from the wet runway | ||
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| Autopilot engaged, departing EFHK | ||
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| Climbing towards cruise altitude at very high speed (which seems to be the only setting available in this particular autopilot...) | ||
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| Turning south above Nummela | Already leveling out at FL300 as I cross the coast | |
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| Arriving in Estonia only minutes later | ||
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| Passing Pärnu and continuing towards Latvia | Above Riga around 15 minutes later | |