Heart of Texas Airshow
Well, Falcon Flight did fly up to TSTC Airport on Friday, 27 Sep to participate in the Heart of Texas Airshow practice, then they fed us at the Performers and Sponsors Party catered by Outback (good). Next day we had about a 1300 scattered to broken layer, but we managed to conduct our Dawn Patrol and position our 8 RVs in the Showplanes area and attend the Pilots Brief at 1130. THEN the weather started moving in. We had about an hour and a half wx delay, then Falcon Flight started up as suggested by Airboss, only to be informed by Airboss another round of rain was quickly moving in and to shut down.......so quickly that after we we shut down and we had to sit in the planes about half an hour while it really came down and flooded the ramp. Instant sauna and fogged over canopies but no heavy winds or hail. Finally it started clearing and Airboss asked us to start back up and we got the show under way about two hours late, but he asked us for the short version because he did not have a TFR extension. THEN we had to pick our way through the storms heading home. With all the rain, it was a pretty small crowd.
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Stu McCurdy (Falcon)
RV-8, 78TX, Flying
Formation Flying, Inc (FFI)
Falcon Flight
Last edited by Stu McCurdy : 09-29-2013 at 06:37 AM.
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