Ed_Wischmeyer
Well Known Member
So I'm waiting for some good weather so I can make the first flight in my RV-8 after four months of recovering from hopefully my last spinal surgery. I'm flying the RV-9A reasonably well and was hoping to go in the -8 this morning, but...
* Last night's forecast for this morning was for scattered clouds at 600 feet, and at the Savannah airport, that usually means broken. Typical 14G21 forecast for the afternoon;
* This morning, the forecast was for 1200 scattered, but winds at 9 knots, some crosswind. Doesn't sound too bad if the atmosphere is stable, but...
* Tornado watch till 3 PM today!
My old Cessna 175 was tied down at Savannah and the tower reported a gust of 74 knots up the tail, and that gust damaged the flight control surfaces; and a thunderstorm a year or so ago had an 84 knot gust that took the door off the hangar next to mine and used that door to poke a big hole in the roof. Hopefully my birds will have a peaceful day in their hangars, and the roof will stay on the house.
But it's time to find my tornado checklist and be ready to put all the hard to replace stuff someplace relatively safe. Probably in the car...
Whine, whine, whine.
* Last night's forecast for this morning was for scattered clouds at 600 feet, and at the Savannah airport, that usually means broken. Typical 14G21 forecast for the afternoon;
* This morning, the forecast was for 1200 scattered, but winds at 9 knots, some crosswind. Doesn't sound too bad if the atmosphere is stable, but...
* Tornado watch till 3 PM today!
My old Cessna 175 was tied down at Savannah and the tower reported a gust of 74 knots up the tail, and that gust damaged the flight control surfaces; and a thunderstorm a year or so ago had an 84 knot gust that took the door off the hangar next to mine and used that door to poke a big hole in the roof. Hopefully my birds will have a peaceful day in their hangars, and the roof will stay on the house.
But it's time to find my tornado checklist and be ready to put all the hard to replace stuff someplace relatively safe. Probably in the car...
Whine, whine, whine.