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May 10th, 2004, 17:42
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Most of the time in the air
Posts: 7,320
|  Flying in Winter So what do you guys do to keep current during the winter months? What times in the winter are you grounded from flying due to severe weather conditions? |
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May 10th, 2004, 18:16
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| Lurker
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| Re: Flying in Winter We're never grounded at any given time. Obviously we can't go up when it's overcast at 1000 and the temp is -20, but there are still plenty of great clear days for flying. I don't know the exact numbers but I'm pretty sure when it gets around -25 we go dual only and then at -30 or somthin like that it goes no fly. The winters might suck up here but it definetely has never stopped us from getting our flying done. |
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May 10th, 2004, 18:34
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2002 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 3,200
   | Re: Flying in Winter If anything, we're grounded more in the spring and fall than in the winter. The only time I've been weathered in the winter was because of winds...that was it. We dont actually get that much snow here, its just damn cold. |
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May 10th, 2004, 22:53
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: kads
Posts: 804
| Re: Flying in Winter the best flying is in the winter because it's so damn dense. high pressure, too. most of the time the density altitude is -2000 or -3000 feet. it was pretty easy doing engine out work in the seminole in november/december  got to use that big janitrol heater too  |
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May 10th, 2004, 23:30
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: North Dakota, USA
Posts: 247
| Re: Flying in Winter We actually did go no-fly in January for several days in a row due to wind chill. It was a cooooold winter this year. |
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May 10th, 2004, 23:50
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Australia, Sydney
Posts: 301
| Re: Flying in Winter We get that problem here all the time in winter!!!   hehe, sorry, had to say that! |
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May 11th, 2004, 06:39
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: kads
Posts: 804
| Re: Flying in Winter yes, the night it was colder here than on both the north and south poles, AND colder than on the surface of mars (the mars landers had just touched down a couple days before this...sigh) was the first time in 3 years that my car failed to start. that's ok....was time for a new battery anyway. that was a pretty butt couple of days. |
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May 13th, 2004, 10:21
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis
Posts: 1,046
| Re: Flying in Winter Flying in the winter is quite enjoyable once your balls defrost and the plane heats up, performance is excellent. One of my friends went flying on a damn cold day. As soon as he took off, tower states "that is the first time I've seen an Arrow leave a contrail." |
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May 13th, 2004, 21:24
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: North Dakota, USA
Posts: 247
| Re: Flying in Winter It stinks too in winter we can't get any actual instrument here. We have to worry about icing in clouds for half the year.  |
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