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Hey, Sydney!
How was your trip home from Pinckneyville? It looked like the weather
got pretty grumpy around there just after I left. -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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"Dan Luke" wrote in message ...
How was your trip home from Pinckneyville? Uneventful, when we made it It looked like the weather got pretty grumpy around there just after I left. It did indeed. Actually it functioned as an advertisement for your wonderous wx machine. But you done right to go when you did. Tina and Michael left not long after you. Shortly after you left, a line of t-storms and heavy rain rolled through. After they passed, Rich kindly downloaded wx and radar from duats. It looked clear back to St Louis, so I called 'fright service' for a briefing and to file a flight plan. "Nonononono!" said the briefer lady. "There's a cell over Sparta right now, part of a line from Poplar Bluff through Farmington and on into Illinois and parts north." "Oh, that line just went through here" say I. "Nonononono!" said the briefer lady. "This is a second line which has just boiled up out of nowhere. It should be at PJY in about 10 minutes complete with chance of hail, 60 mph gusts, and tornado watch" "but..but..but..but...I just looked at a radar picture not two minutes old and weren't none of that there" "Nevertheless." And so it was. That beautiful acrosport decided to beat the storm out of PJY and fly south. Got almost to Carbondale, was greeted by twin lightning strikes just ahead of him, decided to do the proverbial 180. He shot down the runway, did a high speed taxi to the hangar and a pivot, and had friends running out to help him push his plane back into the hangar just before the deluge came down and the fireworks went off. I forgot to mention the Tommy Cooper Medal, awarded to Dave "Nauga" Hyde for dual wipeouts in the cause of aiding humanity, er, Highflyer, er, well, being a Nice Guy. After that line went through, though, we had a peaceful and uneventful flight at about 2000 MSL (personally, I think weather like that should be called "IFR not recommended" because I really don't want to get up in a cloud and let ATC vector me around when there might be tstorms brewing... rather stay low and watch for rain and lightening). We were home doing laundry and cleaning up before the next wave of storms rolled in. Thanks for asking, and hope you had a clear flight home. Cheers, Sydney |
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"Snowbird" wrote in message om... [snipped] Shortly after you left, a line of t-storms and heavy rain rolled through. After they passed, Rich kindly downloaded wx and radar from duats. It looked clear back to St Louis, so I called 'fright service' for a briefing and to file a flight plan. "Nonononono!" said the briefer lady. "There's a cell over Sparta right now, part of a line from Poplar Bluff through Farmington and on into Illinois and parts north." "Oh, that line just went through here" say I. "Nonononono!" said the briefer lady. "This is a second line which has just boiled up out of nowhere. It should be at PJY in about 10 minutes complete with chance of hail, 60 mph gusts, and tornado watch" "but..but..but..but...I just looked at a radar picture not two minutes old and weren't none of that there" "Nevertheless." Sydney, are you saying that your obsolete, soon-to-be-privatized FAA Flight Service Station wx briefer actually had a more acurate weather picture for your route of flight than did your commercial online wx resources? Chip, ZTL |
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