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Howdy Folks, I'll write a more detailed message about this later, but for right now I'll just say that I had quite an adventure yesterday. I went for what was intended to be about an hour's flight yesterday with Jim, our flying club's A&P. Wow, weather can surprise you and change rapidly. In a not very long span of time it changed from sorta thin and thinly scattered clouds to a solid blanket which spread vertically and horizontally so fast. It's a good thing that Jim is IFR. Most of the ILS (15 miles) approach was in the clouds. Spooky! I learned a lot and I am now convinced that I want to take IFR lessons too. If I had been by myself I think I would have been screwed. All of our local airports were socked in. I think I would have headed east for Redding, which in talking to Jim afterwards, is what I probably should have done with no IFR training. At one point, Jim thought he was going to have to go to Redding as the clouds/fog were almost down to the ground. I wasn't happy the whole time but I am glad to have had this experience with a pilot who knows what he's doing. Nevertheless, until we landed, we were both pretty pumped with adrenaline and I couldn't sleep very well last night. Details in full account to come. Nope, I'm not discouraged. I learned some valuable lessons yesterday and I can hardly wait to go flying again although I'm not real hot on the solid cloud blanket routine, especially when it's approx. 4000' high! :-) Spook __________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
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