Weather to Fly - FAA 1971

VFR. In winter. across the Rockies. Into that weather.

When the northern route to NorCal is completely in the clear. . .
 
Did people really used to take off in those cloud conditions VFR? And then press on into mountains and winter storms kinda hoping it got better?

Then they waste half a day ****ing around before deciding to drive.

Nice tailwind though around the low to Cheyenne
 
Hehehe. I saw the weather map and my first thought was, "That's one heck of an Albuquerque Low spinning a blizzard into Colorado upslope..."
 
comanchepilot said:
Did people really used to take off in those cloud conditions VFR? And then press on into mountains and winter storms kinda hoping it got better?

Then they waste half a day ****ing around before deciding to drive.

Nice tailwind though around the low to Cheyenne
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Personally, I don't see any issues...looked like they were in the clear on top out of Denver, just looking to see if there was a place to descend.

On the other hand, they'd have been pretty stupid to try that IFR.

Of course, what's really interesting is nobody's jumped on the icing pirep from a non-FIKI Baron. ;)
 
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