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February 28th 08, 12:20 PM
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AOPA or Golden Eagle... or what?
Man, am I getting old...
I check the weather channel... Phone call a couple of AWOS along the route of my flight.. If things look like a go, I go to the airport and call flight service and get a briefer... I get a full briefing and file the flight plan with him... Then I preflight the bird, fold the Howie Keefe charts to the proper pages, and go... My XM weather is the plexiglass in front of me... My alternate routing is the nearest airport... My alternate flight plan is the nearest airport... yes, I do have moving map GPS, I'm not completely stuck in the buggy whip era... I keep moving forward unless I don't like what I see, then I land... I complete 99% of my flights as filed... denny 
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February 28th 08, 03:03 PM
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AOPA or Golden Eagle... or what?
My XM weather is the plexiglass in front of me...
My alternate routing is the nearest airport... My alternate flight plan is the nearest airport... yes, I do have moving map GPS, I'm not completely stuck in the buggy whip era... I keep moving forward unless I don't like what I see, then I land... I complete 99% of my flights as filed... denny Denny, that attitude would save many lives a year if people would learn to stay on the ground when conditions are bad and land whenever needed to check less than desirable conditions. No schedule is so important that you have to die because you pressed on when it was not right. Ron Lee
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March 1st 08, 08:00 PM
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AOPA or Golden Eagle... or what?
On Feb 28, 7:20 am, Denny wrote:
Man, am I getting old... I check the weather channel... Phone call a couple of AWOS along the route of my flight.. If things look like a go, I go to the airport and call flight service and get a briefer... I get a full briefing and file the flight plan with him... Then I preflight the bird, fold the Howie Keefe charts to the proper pages, and go... My XM weather is the plexiglass in front of me... My alternate routing is the nearest airport... My alternate flight plan is the nearest airport... yes, I do have moving map GPS, I'm not completely stuck in the buggy whip era... I keep moving forward unless I don't like what I see, then I land... I complete 99% of my flights as filed... denny Well hooray for you. XM weather provides information that NO plexiglas will reveal -- the presence of embedded cells. I'll use the XM and get my chest thumping fix elsewhere. Dan
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