First Time Buyer. Help!

"Jim Carter" wrote in message
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In the Midwest, you can usually follow a line of thunderstorms (albeit at
a
distance) and still make your destination even if a bit late. Many people
just park it for a few hours and let the storms roll through, then
continue
their trip in the beautiful clear skies behind the front.

That works reasonably well when you are traveling Westbound since you can
usually fly within 50 miles of the line of storms, let the storms go
overhead, and continue on. Usually this will result in about a 2-3 hour
delay.

If you are headed Eastbound, however, on a trip of say 300 miles, you may
well lose the whole day since storms tend to travel about 30 knots and thus
it could take 10 hours for the path to clear and there could even be another
line of storms behind it or perhaps it is night IMC when the storms finally
clear and you are probably not rested enough to try night IMC at that point.


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Richard Kaplan, CFII

www.flyimc.com