Worst weather, ever...

Watch out for those giant polar hurricanes that bring incredibly cold air
down from the upper atmosphere in their eye and freeze you instantly in
your
tracks... or don't you believe in Hollywood physics?

ROTFL!

I saw that stupid movie with my 14 year old son, who though it was great.

I, of course, kept laughing out loud at inappropriate times... I really
liked it when the helicopter pilots froze to death more or less instantly.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Perhaps it was too "specialized" of a joke, but I felt like breaking out
in song during the original post.

It's been 35 years since I took guitar lessons. Guess the lessons didn't
stick with me too well!

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

It's all over if Jay posts a picture of himself measuring a snowdrift
with a ruler.

Actually, most Iowans I know (including me) would vastly prefer snow to the
crap we've been getting.

There's just not much you can do with freezing rain and sleet.

(Although, incredibly, our schools are OPEN today! All the school districts
around us are closed -- again -- but the "powers that be" in Iowa City
must've finally felt the pressure from parents to stop canceling school
while the rest of us kept going about our business as usual.)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Well.......The ceiling's so low.....got my head in the clouds...
And the run-way's are icy......tax-i-ways ain't been plowed...
Cockpit door's froze up, too....
Got them R.A.P blues

Been three weeks without flyin'.......skills are startin' to rust...
Hoped to go up to-mor-row......but the wea-ther's a "bust"....
So my plane sits un-used....
Got them R.A.P blues

If you make it to the Oshkosh R.A. party in July, we will all take up a
collection to hear you sing that "live".

Or, perhaps, to make you STOP singing that, depending on the mood, and how
much beer has been consumed...

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

Jon Kraus ) wrote:

It looks like it is YOU YOU... I THINK THINK

No, no, it isn't just him!

--
Peter

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:t9QEd.1024$OF5.332@attbi_s52...

Anyone else got the winter blues?

I am only losing three out of four scheduled flights to 1500 foot ceilings
and 2000 foot freezing levels. Maybe they should just put out a permanent
AIRMET for "moderate icing, mixed rime and clear, surface to 14,000 feet, in
a radius of 500 miles from Tacoma Narrows Airport."

Don't feel bad, we have been getting our tails kicked around here in
California also. But if you really want a thrill, drive through LA on a
Friday afternoon with lots of rain, that's when you will wish you were up
there (flying), instead of down here (driving).
Clyde


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:t9QEd.1024$OF5.332@attbi_s52...
Usually winter is my favorite time of year to fly. The air is cold and
crisp, the visibility is CAVU, and the landscape has its own stark beauty.

Not this year. Mary and I have not flown in weeks -- not even the
pattern --
a new record for us. The weather has simply been appalling, with
freezing
fog, snow and freezing rain. I've never seen anything quite like it for
such an extended period.

Friends (who bought our old plane) have had their Warrior stuck in
Missouri
for a few weeks. They've tried retrieving it several times -- a 4 hour
drive each way -- to no avail. Every predicted window of good flying
weather has been elusive or non-existent, and the weather forecasters seem
to have gone from terrible to laughable.

And an IFR ticket doesn't help get a Spam Can off the ground in weather
this
cruddy. Heck, even the King Airs and Citations are grounded. Our FBO
manager told me yesterday that he's only been able to fly a couple of
charters this month, due to conditions, and Unicom (which we play in the
hotel lobby) has been strangely, ominously silent since Christmas.

Even Cedar Rapids Approach is only talking to scheduled air carriers...
And
now, after last night's ice storm, schools, roads -- and runways -- are
all
closed.

One thing's for su Ain't no one flying in to see us at the inn. I'm
about ready to hibernate till April. This sucks!

Anyone else got the winter blues?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Sometimes if I fat finger something and I catch it after it gets posted
I go back and do a "Edit as New" to the post and then delete the old
one. My newsgroup viewer (Netscape) doesn't show the deleted one but
maybe others do... Since I fat finger a lot it probably looks like a lot
of double postings... I'l try to be more careful...

Jon Kraus
PP-ASEL-IA
'79 Mooney 201 Triple43Hotel

Peter R. wrote:
Jon Kraus ) wrote:


It looks like it is YOU YOU... I THINK THINK


No, no, it isn't just him!

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:NcaFd.2274$IV5.2192@attbi_s54...
Watch out for those giant polar hurricanes that bring incredibly cold
air
down from the upper atmosphere in their eye and freeze you instantly in
your
tracks... or don't you believe in Hollywood physics?

ROTFL!

I saw that stupid movie with my 14 year old son, who though it was great.

I, of course, kept laughing out loud at inappropriate times... I really
liked it when the helicopter pilots froze to death more or less instantly.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Yeah, I did the same thing... you'd think that the guy had been dipped in
liquid Nitrogen or something! Obviously the Hollywood screenwriters never
heard of adiabatic heating of gas as it compresses (aka Chinook wind). Even
if you could find -200F air in the upper atmosphere, by the time it made it
to sea level it would be above freezing. Of course, the movie wouldn't be
as exciting if they couldn't make this stuff up...

Dean

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
Anyone else got the winter blues?


It's been cloudy and very warm here in 'Bama. 72 degrees out there right
now. IN THE MIDDLE IF JANUARY!

I miss the cold. So perhaps you should consider yourself lucky, Jay. It
could be 72 degrees up there, ya know.

--
Jim Fisher