Long IFR Flight

The long cross-country flight that I needed to make for my IFR certification was from Livermore California to Arcata California, about a 250 mile trip each way.  I took the day off on the 23rd to get this done.  The trip there and back took about 5 hours.

We had ice accumulating on the plane's wings during our descent which was rather interesting, and flew in actual IFR conditions for over 2 hours.  Some examples of what it's like are shown below.

Looking out the front, right side of the plane.  This was ZERO visibility (and some rain)

Looking straight in front of the plane

After about 2 hours of that Zero visibility travel, I finally found myself in between two cloud layers.  Pictures don't do justice to how beautiful it was.

Finally out of the weather near Clear Lake (Northern California).  I'm flying towards Sacramento at this time.

If you look closely, you can see some antennas sticking out of the clouds near Sacramento.

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