Short flight today

Jim K

Jim K

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MVFR here today. Cold, but tops at 3600, icing forecast showed less than 25% chance and there were several clear pireps, so I decided to go fly a couple approaches.

Climbing out, a 206 about 30mi east reported icing at 3000, which was the altitude I was assigned. Sure enough, about 2600', it started building up, so I asked for 4. Nothing major, but I decided discretion was the better part of valor, and told approach I would be a full stop instead of going missed.

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Unfortunately my magnetometer was still acting up, so I'll have to have the shop take a look, and the new autopilot flies the ILS offset a little bit to the right.

Found 6 more golf balls while putting the plane away. Guess I need to start golfing again to get rid of these things. Maybe I'll bring them to RR for @eman1200.

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As always, fun to fly even though it was shorter than I hoped. Hopefully I'll have another chance to get up this week sometime.
 
Good choice!

This morning we got up early for a trip from SDM (San Diego) to GYR (Phoenix).

surface temperatures in SD were mid to low 50s, it was broken/layered IMC and ice is certainly above around 8:ish.

My Plan-B and C were all in mind and I was ready to pull the trigger.

Fortunately for us, the layers and tops all cooperated and when combined with a 30kt tailwind we got home just fine. Clean of ice the whole way.
 
Wait, what’s the story with the golf balls?
 
unsafervguy said:
never buy a house (or a hangar) on the right side of a fairway!
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Haha right! We own an airbnb right on a putting green and we always get chip shots up in the yard and some hit the house leaving a mark in the stucco. The perks of owning on a golf course.
 
simtech said:
Haha right! We own an airbnb right on a putting green and we always get chip shots up in the yard and some hit the house leaving a mark in the stucco. The perks of owning on a golf course.
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I hate it. Gives me so much anxiety to leave my vehicle parked in front of the hangar. I've found maybe 8-10 on the hangar side of the taxiway, so I'm hoping they're rolling on the ground by the time they get over there. Most of them are in the big open grassy field to the SE there. I usually park on the SW end of the building when the wind is out of that direction, which is of course rare.

It is kind of amusing though to be working in the hangar and watch golfers trying to fish their balls back through the fence with various sticks & club handles.
 
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Winter in Florida ,you ditch the flip flops.
 
no, winter is when the colors change. on the license plates!

also, its time for my annual PSA, for our friends from the great white north, our speed limit signs are in MPH, not KPH.
 
I didn't realize you flew out out of Willard. My time at U of I was in the early 80's.
 
WDD said:
I didn't realize you flew out out of Willard. My time at U of I was in the early 80's.
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I graduated there 2005, and worked on the south farms for a few years after that. interestingly, when I rented my hangar, the computer system remembered me and after going back and forth with bursar's office for several weeks, we finally figured out that I had to log in with my old student account to set up the recurring payment.
 
Hope you got the student discount ………
 
WDD said:
Hope you got the student discount ………
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lol yeah right. I was kinda hoping I could finagle a student ID again, but no joy. That was the best discount card ever.
 
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