So where you flying for Turkey Day?

"A Lieberman" wrote:

A short 1.1 hour flight vs Interstate 55 to Interstate 12 with lots of
cars, kinda a no brainer....

One of the best things about flying for the holidays is watching the
traffic jams below. What's the word...schadenfreude?

What's your ETA?

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:53:02 -0600, Dan Luke wrote:

"A Lieberman" wrote:

A short 1.1 hour flight vs Interstate 55 to Interstate 12 with lots of
cars, kinda a no brainer....

One of the best things about flying for the holidays is watching the
traffic jams below. What's the word...schadenfreude?

What's your ETA?

Hey Dan,

Mid afternoon on Wednesday is a guestimate. I will know much more either
tomorrow or Tuesday. I will post when I know.

My wife has an eye appointment Wednesday morning and need to clear it thru
the doc whether flying will affect her eyes. "Eye pressure" problems (AKA
early stages of glaucoma) and not sure if she will get the full exam or
just a cursory check.

If there is any adverse affect, then we will come down rise and shine on
Thursday morning.

Allen

"A Lieberman" wrote:

What's your ETA?

Hey Dan,

Mid afternoon on Wednesday is a guestimate. I will know much more
either
tomorrow or Tuesday. I will post when I know.

I'll be flying across southern MS & LA Wednesday morning, heading for
Houston. Listen for Cutlass '87D if you get off early. Looks like
we'll have great weather.

My wife has an eye appointment Wednesday morning and need to clear it
thru
the doc whether flying will affect her eyes. "Eye pressure" problems
(AKA
early stages of glaucoma) and not sure if she will get the full exam
or
just a cursory check.

If there is any adverse affect, then we will come down rise and shine
on
Thursday morning.

Hope she's fine & you get to fly.

Happy Thanksgiving.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Dan Luke wrote:

I'll be flying across southern MS & LA Wednesday morning, heading for
Houston. Listen for Cutlass '87D if you get off early. Looks like
we'll have great weather.

Passed right over me... Didn't see ya though...

"Darrel Toepfer" wrote:


I'll be flying across southern MS & LA Wednesday morning, heading for
Houston. Listen for Cutlass '87D if you get off early. Looks like
we'll have great weather.

Passed right over me... Didn't see ya though...

I honked but you wouldn't look up.

Dan Luke wrote:
"Darrel Toepfer" wrote:

Passed right over me... Didn't see ya though...

I honked but you wouldn't look up.

There were those cloudy rainy days...

I'll be flying across southern MS & LA Wednesday morning, heading for
Houston. Listen for Cutlass '87D if you get off early. Looks like we'll
have great weather.

We had "interesting" weather for our flight to see Mr. & Mrs. Montblack, up
in the Minneapolis area. The jet-stream was screaming right over us, and
thus we were bucking a 55 knot headwind all the way from Iowa City to ANE.
The temperature at 5500 feet was minus 15 Fahrenheit.

I took a picture of my GPS, showing a ground speed of 86 knots, just to
prove it to myself. It was a looong flight.

Then, while we were donating all of our money to the Mall of America, an
Alberta Clipper swept down from Canada and buried Atlas under 3 inches of
light, fluffy snow. Unaccustomed to such abuse, he nevertheless shook it
off with aplomb...thanks to six of us sweeping and scraping everything off
before departure. (Haven't done *that* in a long time, probably not since
flight training in Wisconsin...)

The flight home was very nice, into (of course!) another headwind. Only
about 15 knots this time, however.

Today, it's 50 degrees here. When we left Minnesota, the wind chill was
below zero. Gotta love November!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:tsEif.607655$xm3.276746@attbi_s21...
I took a picture of my GPS, showing a ground speed of 86 knots, just to
prove it to myself. It was a looong flight.

I'm HAPPY when I see a 86 knot ground speed in my plane... ;-) Sounds like
y'all had a great Thanksgiving!

You should have came over onto the Omaha sectional and stopped by on your
way.

-Greg B.

You should have came over onto the Omaha sectional and stopped by on your
way.

I thought monsters lay (lie?) off the edge of the sectional...

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"