I took off out of HPN at 8:45 and by 9:00 was holding over SAX. After 10
minutes I changed my destination to HGR and figured I'd either get close and
go VFR or land at HGR and see if I can rent a car. I motored along without
incident or delay. There were planes holding all over, 3 over Lancaster, 6
in the Harrisburg sector and 8 more in the Potomic sector. There was no
way I would have ever made it after all those holds with any fuel left in
the tanks. So I came in on the ILS at HGR and got below the undercast at
1300 AGL.

With 5 mile viz, 1300 bkn ceiling and 1900 foot hills/towers between HGR and
FDK I decided to land at HGR and drove the 30 minutes to FDK.

It was well worth the effort.

Steve S

"Tom Fleischman" k wrote in
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On 2005-06-04 18:34:25 -0400, Michelle P
said:

I went IFR and gave up after 1:45 of flying for what is normally a 45
minute flight.
Michelle

So did I. There was a 45 minute hold for release at 8AM, then at 8:45 they
began letting IFR departures go, but by the time I rounded up my
passengers at 9AM the hold went back up for another hour. By 9:45 HPN was
VFR and the weather was looking a little better to the southwest so we
decided to try and go VFR. But by the time we got just north of Philly we
were on top of a solid undercast and my request with Philly Approach for
an IFR clearance into Frederick was met with howls of laughter, and then
they said fine if you want to circle for an hour and a half we might be
able to work that clearance out, so we turned around and went back to Sky
Acres for pancakes.



Tom Fleischman wrote:

On 2005-06-03 12:22:42 -0400, said:

Seeing as the big AOPA shindig is in Frederick, MD this weekend,
anybody wanna guess how many GA pilots bust the D.C. ADIZ? In spite of
AOPA's publishing the arrival procedures I'm thinking Saturday will be
a busy day for the Air Force...


Go IFR if you can.