"Robert Perkins" wrote in message
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I found it in the A/FD in the Special Notices section (is there an
online A/FD anywhere?).

Closest thing I've seen to an online A/FD is the airport and navaid database
at www.airnav.com. They have what appears to me to be the data for each
airport straight from the FAA's A/FD database. But I don't think they have
any of the other A/FD data.

A couple minutes later I related this thread's story to him, and he
had a very bad reaction, and gave me a 10 minute verbal spanking for
having gone in the first place, a real confidence buster. So now I'm
left wondering if I'm a fool, and how to reconcile scoffing at the
Special Notice with scolding a former student, and whether things
could have gone much worse than they did, given my course line that
day.

I don't understand. Was he lecturing you because of the winds? Certainly
reason to be cautious, but I don't see any reason to avoid the flight
entirely just because of the forecast. You had a backup plan (which is,
regardless of forecast conditions, an important element of ANY flight), and
found the flight conditions to be quite flyable and enjoyable. Seems to me,
that's exactly how it should be.

What the CFI could possibly have found to fill 10 minutes with, I have no
idea.

Pete