Monday I went to Stockholm to bring home a Jetstream
that the company has bought because of the startup
of a new route in May between Cardiff and Anglesey
in Wales.
The trip to Stockholm went via Prestwick south
of Glasgow and Ryanair from there to Skavsta. I
got a day off in Stockholm which I spent wandering
around the city.
I flew the plane home on Wednesday with Alan, the
boss, who came to Stockholm Tuesday evening. We
were at Bromma around 8am, but we didn't get on
our way till around 1pm. This was mostly because
of paperwork and such that needed to be completed
before the money could be transferred. The weather
forecast was saying sky clear across the entire
route, except for Inverness.
We took off from runway 12 at Bromma and followed
the standard instrument departure that we had been
given. The airspace around Stockholm was quite busy
and we were only cleared to climb 1000 feet at the
time up to 1 2000 feet before we finally got cleared
to our cruising altitude 18 000 feet (FL180). When
we approached the border to Norway we were cleared
to fly direct to a point that is on the border between
the Norwegian and the Scottish airspace. This put
us on a path that gave me a nice view of Oslo and
Asker (home).
The winds at our altitude were more or less as
forecasted with a slight tailwind on the first half
of the flight and a slight headwind on the second
half. This resulted in that we were able to fly
the entire trip without having to stop to refuel.
The flight was a total of 3 hrs 17 min which is
my longest flight so far. In the weekend I also
flew a charterflight between Aberdeen and Bristol
with a group of people going to a charity dinner
of some sort. So far I've flown a little over 50
hours here.
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SE-LGH
This plane flew for European Executive Express before
they went bankrupt in the beginning of 2006. The plane
had not been flying for a while and had some defects,
so we got permission to fly one flight so that we
can do all the required maintenance back home in Inverness
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