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I suggested "Punxatawny Phil" to my wife. Got shot down faster than a Brewster Buffalo at the Battle of Midway. I asked the MD to turn off the lights, because I didn't want to risk little Dylan seeing his shadow and crawling back in for six more weeks.

Well in a few years anyway. We had a Groundhog Day baby!! Dylan James, and he's loaded down with all kinds of aviation clothes and nursery decorations!

wish I could! I'm not moving from my movie room Saturday. Cold enough to freeze the b@lls off a brass monkey up here.

Tell Bill and Todd at the airport that James from Tulsa said howdy.

main advantages will be (according to Nat'l Severe Storms Lab in Norman, OK): Meteorologists: Polarimetric radar can significantly improve the accuracy of the estimates of amounts of precipitation Polarimetric radar can tell the difference between very heavy rain and...

+1 +1 Are you instrument rated? (sorry if I missed that). If you are, that puts a myriad of shades of gray on weather decisions. If you're VFR, its pretty much black or white. I join the chorus and say good call. My post maintenance flights always done VFR, and with a few laps over the...

garmin 396/496?

Sounds like a global warming/climate change apocalypse study to me...

true, gotta stay employed to pay for my flying addiction!

I hate snow. I hate cold weather. I want 55 to 75 every day. so there.

:cheerswine:

NWS Tulsa does factor in the differences (especially wind) between KRVS and KTUL, even though they are around 10 miles apart.

TAFS are composed by the meteorologist on the aviation desk of your friendly, local Nat'l Weather Service office. Some are done by DOD mets (for AFBs, NASs, etc)

I normally land loaded w/ 20^ flaps, 30^ if I'm light or its a short r/w. I land the same way in crosswinds. Thankfully, the Cardinal has a great big rudder, and I've had some great pilot mentors that taught me how to use it. I've done a 90^ at 22g29 and still had rudder left.

+1000

When I bought my plane, there was no record of a prop OH in 30 years, so I pulled my prop at the first annual after purchase and took it to Byam at FTW (I lived five miles away). I asked for an IRAN (Inspect, repair as necessary). They said the innards looked great, resealed and repainted the...

Can't wait for the first "right-mover" supercell or splitting supercell to happen to them. check out the "deviant" supercell/splitting supercells E of Lubbock:

"Crack" Cocaine Kills? You just can't make this up... http://www.abcnews4.com/story/16355650/investigators-eatting-cocaine-from-butt-leads-to-death-additional-charges

Thanks Doctor. In the 2011 crazy weather year department, we've had a record 75 tornadoes in our part of OK (so far). My avatar makes 76.

marginal weather. your go/no-go decisions are now shades of gray instead of b/w.