On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:01:24 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Mar 21, 12:18*pm, Roger wrote:
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:58:38 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:
What puzzles me is not the decision to take off, but rather the low
climb rate and the decision to use runway 27. If the weather resembled
what was reported nearby at OKV, runway 9 would have had a negligible
tailwind component.

Probably the same reason after all these years of using tools I stuck
my thumb in a table saw a little over a month ago. *Up 16 hours,
something on his mind, decision making capabilities gone out the
window. *

Yeah, probably so. Sad.

Sorry 'bout the thumb.

Me too, but it's healing nicely... Looks healed, but still tender so
I still keep a bandaid on it for protection.

The thumb isn't nearly the problem of flying into the side of a
mountain:-))
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com