Ed_Wischmeyer
Well Known Member
Last night’s forecast for this morning was winds 6 knots, and at 10 AM, 12 knots, and getting gusty at 2 PM. With that in mind, the “plan” was to take off at 8 AM, fly 30 nm away to fly the LPV approach on autopilot, including the published missed approach – I’ve hardly ever flown a published miss on autopilot.
Forecast was still good this morning, so takeoff was pushed back to 9 AM. Driving to the airport, FSS reported winds at 3,000 were 31 knots. Oh… And I saw one plane flying sidewise on what would have been upwind. Uh, oh.
Plan B was that we’d do pattern work and I’d fly from the right seat, as I’d not done that in a while. Called the tower, traffic was light, they could accommodate us, so we saddled up. However, Clearance Delivery said that there was a fresh PIREP for moderate turbulence between 300 and 800. I’d never encountered that before, but it was an easy decision to taxi back to the hangar and log 0.1 for operating an aircraft for purpose of flight.
Twenty minutes later, the ATIS reported winds 18G20 vs forecast of 12. As my copilot said, “we live to get tossed around another day.”
Forecast was still good this morning, so takeoff was pushed back to 9 AM. Driving to the airport, FSS reported winds at 3,000 were 31 knots. Oh… And I saw one plane flying sidewise on what would have been upwind. Uh, oh.
Plan B was that we’d do pattern work and I’d fly from the right seat, as I’d not done that in a while. Called the tower, traffic was light, they could accommodate us, so we saddled up. However, Clearance Delivery said that there was a fresh PIREP for moderate turbulence between 300 and 800. I’d never encountered that before, but it was an easy decision to taxi back to the hangar and log 0.1 for operating an aircraft for purpose of flight.
Twenty minutes later, the ATIS reported winds 18G20 vs forecast of 12. As my copilot said, “we live to get tossed around another day.”