On friday I had a flight into Ørebro, Sweden. About one hours flight to the south-east. We flew IFR on both legs and a friend of mine was PIC since I am not qualified yet. I will start theoretical and practical training shortly. We departed ENHA in CAVOK and picked up the IFR clearance from Oslo Approach. We were cleared initially 6000ft direct MASEV waiting for FL090 due to inbound traffic at Oslo Airport Gardermoen. We were quickly given our cruise level and we were seeing a GS of 174 kts. Had a small component of tailwind. Approaching MASEV, we were transferred to Sweden Control 131,125. We were radar vectored north of the danger Area R-18 and made a nice join to long final RWY 19 in Ørebro. TWR asked us to hold over NDB EN on final due to inspection of the RWY. The weather was CAVOK, but this gave me an opportunity to train NDB holding.
We departed Ørebro in the afternoon and climbed direct to FL100. A warm front with local showers was approaching Oslo area and we were in solid IFR after some 20 minutes. Minimal icing, but switched the pitot heat and prop heat on to be prepared for more icing. OAT was -2degC. We received descend clearance from Oslo Approach some 28 NM from ENHA and deselected the ALT HOLD and pitched down the command bar on the flight director. We descended in solid IMC and soon we were in rain. Weather was as expected so we did not use the weather radar today. At 5000ft we were visual and made an uneventful landing at ENHA.
Great trip, lots of good learning! Fly safe and train often!
