I need a checklist for my car.

[tonycondon]

And WHY can't you wear shorts when it's 50?

I've seen college-aged kids on the trains wearing shorts and sandals when it's in the 30s. I think that's because a) they just got off an airliner at Midway that came from someplace warmer or b) they don't have any other pants.

my vote is for b)

 

[tonycondon]

We keep telling youse guys. Fifty is not cold. Fifteen is getting cold.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec....=st&q=minnesota+degrees+cold#37c6d4c480d71617

heh, so true

 

[Pi1otguy]

We have those every year. I guess the TV reporters are from outta town..or think everybody else is. They evidently don't know it snows every year.

Now that I've started flying in rain (non-freezing rain) a few months ago my parents say "You're going flying in this weather?" (OVC 15-40 RA) or even driving in the rain. But then again SoCal drivers (me included) don't handle any weather that well.

I remember we had snow (<4") on the on the 5 in the Cajon Pass and it was shut down. They plowed it then the Highway Patrol escorted a few cars at a time up the freeway.

 

[dgdamore]

Is it just me, or when you first leave the airport in your car, do you feel like you are being extra cautions not to clip your wings on anything as if you are taxiing?

 

[Teller1900]

Is it just me, or when you first leave the airport in your car, do you feel like you are being extra cautions not to clip your wings on anything as if you are taxiing?

And after a long night in heavy cross winds, it's always nice stomping on the floor to try to turn left or reaching above my head for the switch for the landing lights...or head lights...whichever I now have.

 

[fgcason]

Is it just me, or when you first leave the airport in your car, do you feel like you are being extra cautions not to clip your wings on anything as if you are taxiing?

On the farm I started down the road which goes from the open runway down through the trees. Just as I got to the trees, I slammed on the brakes hard by instinct and looked out the side worrying about the wings.

The weird one was when I went weeks without driving, just flying or walking or riding on the back of the hay truck. After flying all over New England one day someone parked one of the farm trucks next to the hangar so I could drive back to the house instead of walking the half mile. I got in the truck, closed the door and just sat there wondering how to start the silly thing. There wasn't enough switches and levers. About 20 minutes later everyone at the house is sitting out relaxing in the yard as I walked up. "We left a truck up there for you, why didn't you drive down?" "I couldn't figure out how to start the crazy contraption." They just laughed.

 

[gprellwitz]

Is it just me, or when you first leave the airport in your car, do you feel like you are being extra cautions not to clip your wings on anything as if you are taxiing?

No, but late at night someone I know has been known to drive along the centerline!

 

[flyingcheesehead]

No, but late at night someone I know has been known to drive along the centerline!

Grant,

C'mon, you're in Chicago, you fit right in.

 

[Ted]

Is it just me, or when you first leave the airport in your car, do you feel like you are being extra cautions not to clip your wings on anything as if you are taxiing?

I've never had that, but after my first flying lesson I was trying to steer my truck with my feet, only to rediscover that my gas and brake pedals were, in fact, not rudder pedals. Oops!

Now I seem to remember that car = car and plane = plane pretty well. That said, I'd like to install an altimeter, air speed, attitude indicator in my car.

 

[mikea]

I've never had that, but after my first flying lesson I was trying to steer my truck with my feet, only to rediscover that my gas and brake pedals were, in fact, not rudder pedals. Oops!

Now I seem to remember that car = car and plane = plane pretty well. That said, I'd like to install an altimeter, air speed, attitude indicator in my car.

It took me while to remember that you don't have to keep cross-checking the panel instruments on the car as you leave the airport - although our drivers ed teacher tought exactly that - checklists and all.

 

[Obi Heed Kenobi]

Is it just me, or when you first leave the airport in your car, do you feel like you are being extra cautions not to clip your wings on anything as if you are taxiing?

No...but when you're at the Wendy's drive-through and ask for a "Juliet Bravo Charlie," you know it's a problem!

JBC = Junior Bacon Cheeseburger.