Nice report. That lot of nature and similar-looking lakes seems hard to navigate by eye - how did you fix your landmarks/waypoints?

Must be quite expensive flying solo for such distances. Good luck with the CPL start.

I think I bombed that dam once... in EF2000!

Dramatically beautiful country. DID did it no justice...

And sorry form dropping those bombs....

I try to use the GPS as little as possible. You never know when it drops out on you. Case in point, just over a week ago a guy from my club got lost in bad weather, and the light rapidly fading. He had to be guided down by a police helicopter in IMC, to a small airport, after having flown around for three hours. Fortunately he had more than enough fuel, but it was a close call. His GPS suddenly stopped working...

I used a couple of VORs, but other than that I navigated using the old Mk.1 eyeball, a stop watch, and maps. I see GPS in GA planes as a convenience sometimes, to use if you're flying a short trip over terrain you know well. It is NOT a primary nav aid in small planes, and a lot of people tend to forget that.

It does get hard to navigate here from time to time. Like RsCol says, a lot of similar-looking lakes and lots of forest. Still, once you get the hang of it, it's not that bad.
For this trip I used things like a big lake, a small town and a road as landmarks. The fjords in western Norway mostly run in easterly directions, so you naturally end up following one of those both on the way west and back east. Then there's the glacier And I know most of southern Norway from having driven around a lot, and I recognise a lot of places from the air.

Hey Semmern, you flew right over the famous wing suite base jumping cliffs.

Beautiful...

That's just the way I remembered much of the landscape being when I visited my cousins in Bergen back in 1979..

Semmern.. my great grandfather came from Austevoll. Do you know of it?

Yep, I know where it is Do you have a Nordic-sounding surname, then?

too cool, thanks!

Økland.

I have a cousin who was flying for SAS Braathens up until they started experiencing some layoffs a few years ago.