sferguson524
Pattern Altitude
Was going to fly the Debonair from VGT to VCV today on an IFR refresher flight, and to pick up my son from his mom. CFII calls me at 0700 before we were supposed to meet up, and tells me the winds are shaking his house. Crap, that's not good.. log into the PC, and get an updated wx briefing... Airmet Tango for moderate turbulence and Zulu for icing over our route of flight, covering both our ETD at VGT and ETA back at VGT. TAF was forecasting winds building from steady at 12, at almost a direct crosswind to gusting 28. Figured there was no sense in scaring the hell out of my 3 year old, so I drove to Baker to pick him up.. good thing I did, surface winds were giving me light chop to moderate while driving down 15... Guess there's always next time