Oslo Gardermoen Airport

Continent: Europe

Country: Norway

Oslo Gardermoen Airport
Location	Oslo, Norway
IATA code	OSL
ICAO code	ENGM
Airport type	Commercial
Website	http://www.osl.no
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Communications
Tower
Ground
Clearance
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ATIS

Official Spotting Locations

There are two official spotting locations in OSL. If you're not up for a long walk, both recuire a car to get to.

Hill on northend of RWY 01L/19R

You get to this location by driving north past the GA terminal. Turn right (into the woods) just after the first roundabout.

This is a great spot. When aircrafts land from the north, they touch down right in front of you. Most of the heavy trafic uses this runway regardless. You also get a good view of the military part of the airport.

Grasy area midway of RWY 01R/19L

Even more difficult to get to. From GA-area drive north, and follow signs to "militær flyplass" (do not drive in there). Drive past this, and after a while you should have a hill and the runway to your right. You come to a left turn where you can take off on a gravel-road to the right, and there you are.

Again a great spot. You have a good view of the terminal area, the SAS hangar and both takeoff and landings on this runway

Other Spotting Locations

Armed forces aircraft collection

Go around the collection, and get to an area whit a decent view of the southend of RWY 01L/19R, and the cargo area. If trafic is from north they usually turn of from the runway before they reach this point. Also the fence might be a bit in the way of photographing.

Terminal

From outside the terminal, you might get a decent look at some of the parked aircrafts. Once passed security you have a good view of the gates and taxi-areas.

End of both RWYs

You can get great shots of arriving and departing aircrafts at both ends of both RWYs. However the authoroties are not to happy about people standing there.

GA Area

Good view of aircrafts parked here and trafic on RWY 01L/19R. Not so good for photography

Locations to Avoid

Regular Traffic

PAX

A good variety of domestic and inter-european flights (including Aereoflot with a TU154M). Dominated by SAS and Norwgian. Intercontinental only PIA and Continental.

Cargo

Korean Air with a 744. Lufthansa with a MD11. Aeroflot with a DC10. DHL, UPS, Icelandair etc.