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As an aside, do you wait until you're out of useable runway to bring up the gear? With an 8,000ft runway and a C172R it takes awhile to run out of runway. : )

Because my 172 climbs at 2000 fpm lol.

Yeah, I held my scan together as best I could but I couldn't really make sense of what was in front of me which was really disconcerting. I just knew the layer was thin (500ft or so) and as long as I kept the blue side up and my altimeter was showing a climb that I'd be okay for the moment. So...

Took off the other day into a broken layer at 1500 AGL to begin a long instrument flight over an overcast layer. After take off, I was on instruments but configuring the aircraft for after takeoff, gear and flaps, adjusting power etc. Got into the clouds during climb out and immediately got the...

It's what I did. The airport was on my approved solo airports so easy peasy.

I flight plan with Windy. But I almost always get a briefing before I go because, well, why not let a professional help you out for free...

Not a twin, but an older PA-46 might be in the mix...

Spiders are capable of flight... They spin long singular threads that catch the wind and it pulls them along like a sail. When they want to climb they let out more thread, descend they pull it back in. They're pretty amazing creatures.

I think MillionAir in KHPN trains only in Cirrus aircraft. At least they did...

Actually the cabin is huge. Esp compared to a C150

I have a chunk of hours in a C175 with that motor. Loved flying it. Useful load was well over 1,000lbs and would climb 1,000fpm to 8,000 ft all day. Still a draggy C175 but would true out around 135. Reminded me a lot of a C182 but was still light in pitch unlike the 182.

It's hilly-er than you might think. But it ain't the Rockies...

I was flying a Cutlass on this flight. 700fpm all the way to 9500. Trued out at 135kts on 9gph. Almost 1,000lbs useful. I don't know why they get such a bad rap.

Don't blow up his NDA! I want that thing rolling out on time. lol

Yep, Beechnutz and KC Flight did a joint flyover when one of our fellow KC aviators became seriously ill (he's on the mend) from COVID19. This was before the Blue Angels and T-birds. It was a pretty cool sight, must have been 30 aircraft in formation. They've done a few since. But like...

It does when determining your alternate

@denverpilot that's two days in a row I've learned something

Denver used to be part of the Kansas territory... Denver is named after the first territorial governor of Kansas.

Yeah, the top of the inversion layer was right at 7,500. Winds there were probably closer to 15kts, whereas the winds at 9,500 were at least 45kts. I'm thinking had I flown thru it another 30 seconds I would have been thru it. But it freaked me out enough and my O2 sats were lowish so I just...

I didn't, but the ASI crosscheck against the altimeter, it was not acting like an iced up pitot. Airspeed was dropping, my AOA was increasing, but the altitude was the same.