I hate winter

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.

Rosspilot ) wrote:

New York. Raining for 3 days. Unusually warm weekend (50s) but miserable
weather except for ducks.

Great actual IMC weather! I flew down to MD from central NY Saturday
and all but the takeoff and landing was logged as actual.



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Peter












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New York. Raining for 3 days. Unusually warm weekend (50s) but miserable
weather except for ducks.

Great actual IMC weather! I flew down to MD from central NY Saturday
and all but the takeoff and landing was logged as actual.

Excellent.

Try doing photography in it. :-)



www.Rosspilot.com

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!

:-)

"Ray Bengen" wrote in message
.. .

How's this ?

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

On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:53:28 GMT, "Ray Bengen" wrote:

How's this ?

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

Please.

PDX ATIS: "PDX arrival info Alpha... 1855Z wind calm vis 9 050 BKN 060
OVC 0/M3 A3010 ILS 10R in use, NOTAMS: All runways closed... airport
wind indicator out of service... Runway 10L ILS out of service, Runway
10L DME(?) out of service, runway 10R middle marker out of service...
braking action advisory in effect."

VUO ASOS: "Pearson Airfield 1905Z 9999 V10 045 FEW 060 OVC M01/M04
A3010" (note that this runway is also just plain closed)

METARs for KPDX KVUO

KPDX 081814Z 11013KT 5SM -FZRA FEW033 OVC044 M01/M03 A3010 RMK AO2
FZRAB13 PNO=

KVUO 081753Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM OVC036 M01/M04 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP191
60001 T10111044 11011 21022 51019=

TAFs for KPDX KVUO

KPDX 081743Z 081818 10010KT P6SM SCT040 OVC050
TEMPO 1821 -FZRA
FM0000 10018KT P6SM -FZRA BKN025 OVC050
FM1200 14012KT P6SM -FZRA SCT025 OVC050=

Y'all be safe out there.

Rob

Try this:
KFFO 131917 36009KT 8000 -SN OVC013 620134 QNH3018INS
BECMG 1920 34010G15KT 9000 BR OVC030 620303 QNH3024INS
BECMG 2324 33009KT 9999 NSW OVC030 620302 QNH3030INS T03/21Z
TM03/11Z AMD 1931=

Typical for the Ohio Valley. Every Nice day, I'm out of town


"Paul Sengupta" wrote in
:

Not here it isn't.