Well, I fly a bit, if 28 hours in the last 5 weeks is a bit.. I flew
2.9 hours Saturday across Lake Huron into the UP of Michigan and
another 3.1 on Sunday into Southern Lake Erie..

Dang, Denny. In the last week I've made the flight around the bottom
of Lake Michigan (from Iowa to Michigan) three times -- 15 hours in 7
days -- and each time, the weather has been completely different.

Yesterday we made it home literally minutes ahead of a huge storm
system, after racing it all the way from Lansing. With a headwind, we
were only able to bump along at around 130 knots, and we had to climb
to 8500 feet to get out of the usual August "5 miles and haze"...

With XM we were able to watch in horror as it bore down on Iowa
City...only to inexplicably stall just west of the city for the last 30
minutes. We were able to land uneventfully within sight of the
lightning and rain.

Flight service forecasts was almost useless on all of these flights, by
the way -- the weather was simply too variable. The simply didn't know
what they didn't know.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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