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Jim, I emailed you yesterday morning- did you get it?
Jim wrote: If you're interested in 150's, send me an email. I've got a two pretty good leads here in Central Wis. |
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"Paul Folbrecht" wrote in message hlink.net... I have actually been thinking about that whole experience quite a bit. I always thought briefers would be erring on the side of caution but not this time- sometimes the weather just does not do what's expected. Of course all those low cigs and haze were completely unforecast for the whole day. It was supposed to be clear below 12,000' as of midnight Saturday. But the wind was as forecast. You know, before today it never even occured to me to check the outlook the night before or whatever. I've always just gotten the current wx an hour before the flight and maybe made a cursory check of the forecast for later in the day. But after seeing how much I missed between the time I planned the flight to when my instructor and I sat down together to look at the weather more closely, it made a big impression on me to not rely on just a snapshot, but to get a bigger picture of the weather unfolding. That said, as you put it, those conditions that day weren't really forecast beforehand. The briefers were probably just as surprised as everyone else. Kinda par for the course in Wisconsin, though. If you want the weather to change, just wait a few minutes.... |
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 02:49:31 GMT, Paul Folbrecht
wrote: The 2-seat vs. 4-seat question is one of the most important for me right now. And I am heavily leaning (still) towards the former. 4 seats would be very nice, indeed, when I want them, but I need to be pragmatic here. I don't need them and won't use them most of the time. Thanks for the comments. ~Paul Nobody does. |
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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ... Paul Folbrecht wrote: ... and the exterior does look really good. My personal nickname for my old 150 was "The Whore", because it was painted up real pretty but had been heavily used. One of those where "You don't want to put your key in THAT ignition"? |
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Paul Folbrecht writes:
I bet most here were well aware of that, but I think I just learned something important. Why the hell isn't that pointed out in the PPL study materials? The implication from what I'd read is definitely that you can only PERFORM "basic maintenance" as a PP. Probably because most instructors aren't airplane owners. I know that there are frequent contributors here who are airplane owners and CFI's, so I'm sure I'll hear about it, but I'm talking in general, run of the mill FBO's, your average rental outfit, and so on. -jav |
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