WARM-UP FLIGHT - 3 DAYS LEFT
Written: 01 JULY 2003

Departure is approaching fast. Today it's 3 days left til I'm on my way to the States. I spent my day flying a last flight with Jon-Arne Lillerud, a warm-up flight if you like. The flight went out of Kjeller (ENKJ) in a Piper 28-140 (SE-LBN) in direction towards Rygge (ENRY). To really warm up, Jon-Arne left me in charge of the communication with the ground. As I felt I had the whole maintaining altitude and speed thing under control, I figured I might as well just jump right into it and get rid of the radiophobia as well as exercising my simultaneous capacity. I/We did 2 touch-and-go's at Rygge before flying to Jon-Arnes cabin outside Fredrikstad. After a couple of rounds around his cabin, I set the course towards Asker at low altitude along the coast. A couple of compulsary rounds over my house as well before I finished it off with a landing at Kjeller. Can't say it was a pretty one, though crosswind and windshear did its part to make things difficult for me. 1h 40 min airborne makes a pretty respectable warmup flight in my opinion. That leaves me with 3:40 total airborne time behind the yoke before startup at NAIA. Can't wait to fly more!