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October 26th, 2006, 17:33
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tarzana, CA (KVNY)
Posts: 1,495
 |  Weather blues. Ok, I've been trying to my long solo cross country flight to French Valley, Riverside and back to Van Nuys for the last 5 weeks and it's been cancelled 4 times by weather and once due to the presidential TFR. I was SUPPOSED to go yesterday. Got to the airport and it was crappy. 1-2 miles visibility on my route. I waited about 2 hours and it started to look promising. Riverside was reporting 7 miles, HZ and French Valley was SKC. So my instructor said go for it. I headed out, made it to the Pasadena area, started to look for the Rose Bowl which was my first checkpoint and I couldn't see it. Just a nice layer of haze. Visibility started to deteriorate even more. I could maby see 1 mile ahead of me on the ground. I was having a hard time figuring out where I was and then SoCal approach comes on and tells me to make a turn to the north to avoid wandering into the class B. So at that point I decided to call it a day. Asked for clearance to turn back and made it home ok. For me it was the right decision but dammit...i wanna get this thing done. Ok, end rant! |
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October 26th, 2006, 17:50
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Arlington, TX
Posts: 338
| Re: Weather blues. Same here. I finished my CFI ground school stuff back in September, and I haven't had a chance to fly yet due to weather and maintenance(Gotta love the Arrows). Pretty frustrating considering I haven't flown since July. |
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October 26th, 2006, 17:51
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Park City, UT
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October 26th, 2006, 17:53
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Arlington, TX
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October 26th, 2006, 18:10
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: LUK
Posts: 377
| Re: Weather blues. Hang in there bud... WX delays happen to the best of us! |
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October 26th, 2006, 18:31
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tarzana, CA (KVNY)
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 by the way...GO BEARS!!  | |
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October 26th, 2006, 18:55
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2006 Location: East
Posts: 1,017
| Re: Weather blues. How about that fire today too. I think it is bringing the vis down to a few miles again. The good news is after your private you can get your ifr which will pretty much give you 358 flyable days in socal good luck
__________________  .....i have two speeds, walk and kill |
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October 26th, 2006, 21:53
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: KMKE
Posts: 1,924
| Re: Weather blues. Quote:
__________________ British Airways flight asks for push back clearance from terminal. Control Tower replies: "And where is the world's most experienced airline going today without filing a flight plan?" | |
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