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I had an interesting flight some time ago, going from
Gothenborg to Oskarshamn (both in Sweden) in an Archer.
It's about an hour and a half; we departed Gothenborg
shortly before 22.00 local time, the sun was just setting
(behind a solid layer of clouds though). The flight
was VFR, as wanted to stay below the clouds to have some good
views. The wheather man had talked about bases between 2000
and 4-5000 along our route, low stratus at ~700 moving in,
but for sure not before 3-4 o'clock in the morning.
So we were cruising along, getting flight following from
Malmoe control; sure enough, he did not hand us over to
Joenkoeping for a TMA (Terminal Control Area) clearence,
so I asked him for the clearance; he immediately told us
to contact Joenkoeping tower.
Visibility at this point (and during the rest of the trip)
was at least 15 NM, bases maybe 4000 feet (we were at 2500).
When I contacted Joenkoeping tower, he went on with some
wx info, etc. etc. When I asked for a TMA clearance again,
he says: "I say again, 7 octa stratus at two-zero-zero, you
cannot cross my CTR, confirm you are VFR".
So I inform him that we have pretty good wx, and we don't
intend to touch his CTR (Control Zone), only the TMA.
Finally he agrees; after maybe 5-10 minutes he comes back:
"Confirm you still have good weather ???", which we do.
At this point we can see the stratus at Joenkoeping, which 
obviously was coming up over the big lake (is it Vaenern or
Vattern, I keep confusing the two).
The rest of the flight was completely ueventful; we landed
at our planned time in Oskarshamn, except that I did not
succeed in contacting Malmoe again. The guy on the phone
made a comment like "Oh, you are the one in Oskarshamn,
that's good", so I assume the tower had called him to
inform him about this crazy VFR traffic.
My question: Considering that (i) we were in perfect VFR
weather, (ii) Joenkoeping is about halfway between
Gothenburg and Oskarshamn and (iii) I was IFR equipped,
rated and current, with Malmoe being an out, was it 
unreasonable to continue ? What should I have done ?
-- 
Wolfgang Diestelkamp
wd@cs.tu-berlin.de
wolfgang@first.gmd.de