Snowbird
September 2nd 03, 02:51 AM
Peter R. > wrote in message m>...
> Snowbird wrote:
> > Anyone know of an archive for nexrad?
> > I'd like to know if we were nuts or just plane crazy
> I hope you are working on the story for this group. :)
No story. Two straighforward, uneventful flights. DH
was PIC not me, though for the first time since our daughter
was born both of us sat up front, which cuts the workload
way down.
But there was a front stalled diagonally across MO this
weekend. The diagonal, for most of the weekend, roughly
corresponded to I-44. Coincidentally, that happens to
correspond pretty well to our route.
Naturally, convective activity of various flavors
ranging from "isolated" to "severe" was forecast at
various times. As fronts go, this one was a relative
slug at producing t-boomers, but they were there at
times. We chose our moment carefully in both directions
and went for it.
We felt that flights were do-able, and in fact both
flights were uneventful. The return flight was no
problem at all, VMC over a layer and no sign of any
buildups anywhere along our route. The flight down
was at my comfort limits. We were in between layers,
no way to visually identify convection. We're relying
on CBAV (bless it and the guy who created it) and ATC
and pireps, and on the route we were flying the latter
are infrequent. Just not a lot of traffic that-a-way.
ATC was very helpful.
We were IMC in heavy rain but silky-smooth air at one
point deviating around a moderate radar return and I'd like
to see what it looked like in living color. On CBAV it
looked like what I associate with a large patch of moderately
heavy precip, not convective, and that's what we got on
the N edge of it. It's just a "pushing it" sort of feeling,
KWIM? and I like to Monday am Qback those flights.
And probably I'm wrong-headed, but with all respects
to Richard Kaplan when we free up a hole in our panel,
a stormscope is *way* higher on the priority list than
a backup horizon gyro. It just seems like something
we'd get a lot more use from.
We weren't around, but I'd imagine the County Fair and
Airshow at our former home airport SUS was rather a bust.
Too bad if so.
Cheers,
Sydney
> Snowbird wrote:
> > Anyone know of an archive for nexrad?
> > I'd like to know if we were nuts or just plane crazy
> I hope you are working on the story for this group. :)
No story. Two straighforward, uneventful flights. DH
was PIC not me, though for the first time since our daughter
was born both of us sat up front, which cuts the workload
way down.
But there was a front stalled diagonally across MO this
weekend. The diagonal, for most of the weekend, roughly
corresponded to I-44. Coincidentally, that happens to
correspond pretty well to our route.
Naturally, convective activity of various flavors
ranging from "isolated" to "severe" was forecast at
various times. As fronts go, this one was a relative
slug at producing t-boomers, but they were there at
times. We chose our moment carefully in both directions
and went for it.
We felt that flights were do-able, and in fact both
flights were uneventful. The return flight was no
problem at all, VMC over a layer and no sign of any
buildups anywhere along our route. The flight down
was at my comfort limits. We were in between layers,
no way to visually identify convection. We're relying
on CBAV (bless it and the guy who created it) and ATC
and pireps, and on the route we were flying the latter
are infrequent. Just not a lot of traffic that-a-way.
ATC was very helpful.
We were IMC in heavy rain but silky-smooth air at one
point deviating around a moderate radar return and I'd like
to see what it looked like in living color. On CBAV it
looked like what I associate with a large patch of moderately
heavy precip, not convective, and that's what we got on
the N edge of it. It's just a "pushing it" sort of feeling,
KWIM? and I like to Monday am Qback those flights.
And probably I'm wrong-headed, but with all respects
to Richard Kaplan when we free up a hole in our panel,
a stormscope is *way* higher on the priority list than
a backup horizon gyro. It just seems like something
we'd get a lot more use from.
We weren't around, but I'd imagine the County Fair and
Airshow at our former home airport SUS was rather a bust.
Too bad if so.
Cheers,
Sydney