Jay Honeck wrote:
Hey... that little window let me fly home (Wisconsin-Virginia) on New
Year's
Day.... Take what you can get!


Hey, we flew VFR from Iowa City to Janesville, WI (and back) last Sunday.

The last 45 minutes were, um, interesting. The temperature and dew points
began to converge, as the sun began to set, and sky conditions dropped from
11,000 broken to a very optimistic 1300 overcast -- across a 250 mile wide
stretch of terrain -- in about 20 minutes. It was the most widespread
deterioration I've ever seen.

I was glad to be on the ground at the end of that flight. We were still
legal VFR, but visibility was 5 miles or less, and nasty icing was occurring
less than a thousand feet up.

Other than that, we haven't flown diddly squat in weeks. Our last fly-in
guest was sometime around Thanksgiving. Worst flying weather I've ever
seen.

Yes, I feel your pain. I haven't flown since a trip in October to New
Hampshire where I got some ice on the return trip. I was off two weeks
at Christmas and the weather was either icing conditions or low vis
every day the entire time I was off work!


Matt