I hate winter

I am ready for winter to be over.

Pshaw. The very best flying is in winter. And it's just getting started!

Yesterday we got creamed with 8 inches of light, fluffy snow -- now
everything is gorgeous around here! (There is nothing worse than flying
over Iowa in January when all the snow has melted... 60,000 square miles of
MUD.) A true winter wonderland, we've become.

And, since we spent the entire afternoon/evening yesterday partying for the
playoffs (Go Pack!), I was glad the weather sucked for flying. Now,
everything is white, crisp, and cold. Our rate of climb will be easily over
1400 fpm, and visibility will be 1000 miles.

And you'll be able to fly at night the same as in the daytime -- even
without a moon. (The white snow reflects even starlight amply enough to fly
by...)

Now that I'm not in newspapers anymore, I'll take this weather over that
"flying inside a ping-pong ball" effect we get in July...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"
"Jeff" wrote in message
...
the strong winds aloft are a killer when your ready to get back home.

This morning I flew my wifes brother and his wife back to Casa Grande
Az. from Las Vegas, getting down there was pretty quick, hour and 45
minutes, getting back was 2 hours and 15 minutes. My worst GS was when I
climed to 10.5 to go over a mountain near kingman Az, I thought I was
sucking with my 130 kt GS at 8500 ft, at 10.5 I was getting a
blistering 117 kts!!!!!

ya my clime rate was outstanding, at gross (2900 lbs) I was about 1100 fpm.
Cruise climb I was getting 500 fpm at 110 kts. Impressed me, and here I was
worrying about carrying to much fuel.

Jay Honeck wrote:

I am ready for winter to be over.

Pshaw. The very best flying is in winter. And it's just getting started!

Yesterday we got creamed with 8 inches of light, fluffy snow -- now
everything is gorgeous around here! (There is nothing worse than flying
over Iowa in January when all the snow has melted... 60,000 square miles of
MUD.) A true winter wonderland, we've become.

And, since we spent the entire afternoon/evening yesterday partying for the
playoffs (Go Pack!), I was glad the weather sucked for flying. Now,
everything is white, crisp, and cold. Our rate of climb will be easily over
1400 fpm, and visibility will be 1000 miles.

And you'll be able to fly at night the same as in the daytime -- even
without a moon. (The white snow reflects even starlight amply enough to fly
by...)

Now that I'm not in newspapers anymore, I'll take this weather over that
"flying inside a ping-pong ball" effect we get in July...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"
"Jeff" wrote in message
...
the strong winds aloft are a killer when your ready to get back home.

This morning I flew my wifes brother and his wife back to Casa Grande
Az. from Las Vegas, getting down there was pretty quick, hour and 45
minutes, getting back was 2 hours and 15 minutes. My worst GS was when I
climed to 10.5 to go over a mountain near kingman Az, I thought I was
sucking with my 130 kt GS at 8500 ft, at 10.5 I was getting a
blistering 117 kts!!!!!

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:X0dKb.66353$xX.425424@attbi_s02...
... and visibility will be 1000 miles.

In Iowa, in the winter, you can see 1000 miles by standing on a chair.

... and visibility will be 1000 miles.

In Iowa, in the winter, you can see 1000 miles by standing on a chair.

A cute, but common, misperception. Parts of Iowa are far from flat!

And while Iowa City is not mountainous by any stretch, we live on a hill.

The hotel, of course, being adjacent to the airport, is on a
flat-as-a-pancake parcel of land just south of some pretty good ridge-lines.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Not to the west! Rockie Mountains are 620 nm west of you!

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:fQmKb.70901$xX.461285@attbi_s02...
... and visibility will be 1000 miles.

In Iowa, in the winter, you can see 1000 miles by standing on a chair.

A cute, but common, misperception. Parts of Iowa are far from flat!

And while Iowa City is not mountainous by any stretch, we live on a hill.

A 4 foot high berm is NOT a hill, Jay.

The hotel, of course, being adjacent to the airport, is on a
flat-as-a-pancake parcel of land just south of some pretty good
ridge-lines.

As above.

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 23:55:55 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

... and visibility will be 1000 miles.

In Iowa, in the winter, you can see 1000 miles by standing on a chair.

A cute, but common, misperception. Parts of Iowa are far from flat!

I'm from the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. I've flown through Iowa and
Kansas. You don't have hills out there... Those are Mountains!

Around here, if you spill a pint of water it'd cover 40 acres if it
didn't soak in first. Course the DNR would declare it wet lands in
that case.

Actually the vast majority of Lower Michigan is one great big swamp
that was drained to create farm land. They never got around to
draining the UP. You abandon a field around here and it really will
qualify as wet lands in 4 or 5 years.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

And while Iowa City is not mountainous by any stretch, we live on a hill.

The hotel, of course, being adjacent to the airport, is on a
flat-as-a-pancake parcel of land just south of some pretty good ridge-lines.

"Brien K. Meehan" wrote in message
om...
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:X0dKb.66353$xX.425424@attbi_s02...
... and visibility will be 1000 miles.

In Iowa, in the winter, you can see 1000 miles by standing on a chair.

Or if you're over 5'10", you don't even need the chair.

Not here it isn't.

Today's TAF:

EGLF 080910Z 081019 17015G27KT 7000 RA SCT006 BKN012 TEMPO 0912 18025G42KT
PROB40 TEMPO 0712 3500 RADZ +RA BKN006 BECMG 1213 22017G30KT 9999 NSW SCT015
PROB30 TEMPO 1319 6000 SHRA

EGLF = Farnborough, nearest field to here with weather reporting.

Just getting started? Bah. Last winter I managed just over 4 hours,
from the 6 month inspection in October to the annual in April.
Feels a bit of a waste doing an oil and filter change having flown
only 4 hours. Even when it is flyable it damages the (grass) runway,
gets mud all over the underside of the wings, and if landing downhill
(into the prevailing wind...too shallow the other way with a good
tailwind to hit the start of the shortish runway) you might not be able
to stop.

Paul

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:X0dKb.66353$xX.425424@attbi_s02...
Pshaw. The very best flying is in winter. And it's just getting started!

How's this ?

EGLL 271209Z 271322 27022G35KT 9999 SCT030 TEMPO 1317 27027G45KT BECMG FKNG CLD BLLX THS WX IS SHT


"Paul Sengupta" wrote in message ...
Not here it isn't.

Today's TAF:

EGLF 080910Z 081019 17015G27KT 7000 RA SCT006 BKN012 TEMPO 0912 18025G42KT
PROB40 TEMPO 0712 3500 RADZ +RA BKN006 BECMG 1213 22017G30KT 9999 NSW SCT015
PROB30 TEMPO 1319 6000 SHRA

EGLF = Farnborough, nearest field to here with weather reporting.

Just getting started? Bah. Last winter I managed just over 4 hours,
from the 6 month inspection in October to the annual in April.
Feels a bit of a waste doing an oil and filter change having flown
only 4 hours. Even when it is flyable it damages the (grass) runway,
gets mud all over the underside of the wings, and if landing downhill
(into the prevailing wind...too shallow the other way with a good
tailwind to hit the start of the shortish runway) you might not be able
to stop.

Paul

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:X0dKb.66353$xX.425424@attbi_s02...
Pshaw. The very best flying is in winter. And it's just getting started!