Monday, March 22, 2010
Weather and Small Airplanes
Should be mixed very cautiously, or not at all. No flying today and a very slim chance for tomorrow, so Tuesday is earliest for solo. Today we had heavy rain, lightning, high winds (15-20 knots) and low ceilings (1000-1500 feet). Except for the wind and thunderstorms it was an acceptable marginal VFR day. With the caveat that the local obstacle clearance altitude is 1900 feet to the west. Clearing the clouds by 500 feet and staying 1000 feet above densely populated areas would leave me with about 100 whole feet of legal airspace. Even though I am the steely-eyed, square-jawed comic book hero of days past, I am not that stupid! This is "Sport" flying not "Really Sporty" flying! I approach this just like scuba diving, driving an RV, or even corporate aviation, there are no red crosses painted on the airplane and no bombs either. No one is dying for me to fly them anywhere and time schedules are for convenience and reference only. Basically I don't give a @#$% how badly it puts you out or how much it costs. WE NO FLY NOW! The danger is that I understand this now, but may feel increased confidence after a few thousand more hours. New guys are 'fraidy cats. Cats have nine lives. Meow! So tomorrow I'll go into the hangar and do paperwork for my official student pilot certificate. Up until now, I've been riding on Sherman's ticket, but I want him to close the door behind himself and let me go solo! Please! For that I need a license of some sort. Sherman will still have to endorse my logbook for each flight and I dare not go off the chosen path without dire emergency dictating it. And having a dire emergency 50 miles away ( I'm limited to 25 miles) would really piss off the Feds. So give me my "Stupid Student Ticket" and let me go burn fuel doing landings at Venice, Manatee, and maybe Edgewood. I wanna do more stalls and turns around points and S-turns over I-75. I need 7.9 hours to meet the minimum experience number and they only have one airplane in their fleet. So just like group sex, I'll hang in there and look for an opening!
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