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Permit me a moment, please, to say...
WOW!
Flying is just SO cool! I took another Mount St. Helens flight Saturday at noontime. It's a favorite around here with the folks who want to ride in a plane; first choice. So the route of flight was relatively pedestrian, since I've done it a few times already, weather was pretty good, a nice broken layer at 12,000, with scattered stuff at 10,000 and, I learned, an AIRMET for moderate turbulence in the region "below 15,000 feet". We didn't notice any turbulence, so on the north side of the mountain I called in a PIREP to say so. What we *did* get, right abeam the dome and crater of the mountain, was my very first strong mountain updraft. We gained 1000 feet in *very* short order, and it was astounding how good it felt to ride it. Of course, upon rounding the mountain we also caught a *down*draft, which made me glad I didn't try to control altitude during the unintended climb, that 1000 feet was gone just as fast as it came. I wonder, from anyone who knows the region: is that a characteristic of the area? I recall we had a southwesterly flow that day, with winds aloft from the south at 20 knots or so. Any way to predict that region? If anyone is curious I'm happy to post the pictures we took of the area. Rob -- [You] don't make your kids P.C.-proof by keeping them ignorant, you do it by helping them learn how to educate themselves. -- Orson Scott Card |
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