Because the NCAA spent quite some time printing
out the little piece of paper stating that I am
in fact a pilot, there hasn't been much flying so
far this year. But today Kristian and I got a good
solid 3 hours in the air.
Vi figured out we wanted to test out the airspace
around Oslo and talk on as many frequencies as we
could in the area. We started off by preflighting
the plane at Kjeller and filing a VFR flight plan.
The weather has been excellent the last couple of
days, but today was rather grey. Fortunately the
clouds were high and did not pose a threat to us.
We took off with LN-NEW from Kjeller and headed
off to Rygge. On the first flight Kristian was at
the controls, while I was handling the navigation
and radios. After an ILS30 at Rygge we went straight
into the arc to the VOR36 at Torp from where we
flew back to Kjeller to eat lunch.
LN-NEW is a new Piper Archer and has alot of goodies
in the cockpit. It has a dual Garmin 430 GPS which
is connected to the Autopilot and Flight Director.
The autopilot has 2 axis so that it can also hold
altitude. Instead of a old and tired DG it has a
wonderful slaved HSI.
After lunch it was my turn to have a go at the
controls. We flew the opposite triangle, and started
with a full VOR36 at Torp before a full ILS30 at
Rygge. ATC was very nice to us, allowing us to do
basically everything we asked for. On the ILS we
tried to let the autopilot fly it for us, but we
weren't exactly impressed by the result.
Next flight we plan to go on an IFR cross country.
We don't know where or when yet, but hopefully soon.
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LN-NEW parked in the hangar
The cockpit
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