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Well, for those of you following our efforts to get our second coupe home, here it is. After our ferry pilot got weathered out in Washington, MO. (35 miles w/o St. Louis) It sat there on the crummy weekends when we couldn't fly it out. And worse, it sat there on the sunny days that we had to work. Finally, this weekend the weather-liars gave us the forecast of Saturday being MVFR with bad freezing levels along the route, But Sunday was supposed to be clear and any clouds at high altitudes. So... we elected to drive down Saturday. And wouldn't you know it, the whole route was CAVU forever. So instead of flying down in this good weather, we are scooting along on the ground. Then, Sunday arrives, we go out to the airport. It's a bit hazy, but a high ceiling. so far so good. Well, a call to the weather liars indicates IFR along the route with low ceilings. Told that just STL was reporting high ceilings. Nice 20-25 knot tailwind tho. So we discuss it, and decide to at least get it over to the other side of St. Louis airspace and save a few miles for the next trip. SO Jenn Departs... and I'm the balloon chaser. She gets to the first airport...and heads to the second... and the third.... and so on. She had a 1800-2000 foot ceiling the entire 400 mile route and about 7 mile visibility... so off she went. And our luck held out and she made it home allright. Me... I crawled along on the ground and made it home eventually. She did note that there was a discrepancy between the Garmin 195 she carried and the Flybuddy gps mounted in the plane. It was an 8-15 degree diffence. It has an old data card in the Fly buddy, so I'll cross check them later. The plane fired up well, she said it flies better than mine ( less slop in the controls ( to be remedied at annual)) And she likes a yoke PTT button. the weather this weekend is supposed to be Michigan Scud, so I don't know when I'll get a chance to try it. But at least we have it home in our hangar. Special thanks to Jan Z, Rich Todd, Rusty, and Artie Langston for all their help. Rick and Jenn Green N93686 415 C N3816H 415 D South Haven MI South Haven MI ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
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