Yesterday we (Johan Hammarström, WFH Webmaster Andreas Bergner and WFH Information Manager Wanja Stenberg) landed with Worldflyer in Innsbruck to attend the International Congress of Audiology. Before Innsbruck we have completed some other activities such as making a scenic flight with the winner in GN ReSounds Audiologist competition in Sweden and meeting hard of hearing children in Sonderborg in Denmark. As we get all the pictures from these activities we will publish them on the blog! During the fall there will be several movies released about World Flight for Hearing and the first one (a short summary movie) will be released today as a beta version and showed for the first time at International Congress of Audiology. But for all curious web visitors we have also made it accessible on the internet so stick around and check it out on our blog very soon.

The flight down in Europe has been quite eventful. We have had to struggle with a lot of headwind and lots of weather. The flight between Kalmar (where the scenic flight was performed) and Sonderborg in Denmark we had to circumnavigate several CB clouds that looked to heavy to penetrate. We also had to do a divert on the way down to Innsbruck as we run short of fuel due to a not properly installed fuel check valve (but that was easy to fix).

The approach to Innsbruck is stunning! You start the final on 9500 feet and descend steep in to a valley where you have 12 000 feet mountains at your sides. The approach is considered to be one of the most demanding in the world!

Approaching Innsbruck (stunning view over the Alpes)

GARMIN 1000 warns for terrain on the approach in to Innsbruck (red areas is terrain that is higher than the airplane)

Innsbruck

Johan Hammarström and Andreas Bergner in Worldflyer after landing at Innsbruck

Written by Johan