A bumpy ride...

[flyingcheesehead]

Not a fun night to go flying in Nebraska...

WSUS03 KKCI 280026
CHIR WS 280026
SIGMET ROMEO 1 VALID UNTIL 280426
SIGMET
NE
FROM 40NW ONL TO 50W PWE TO 40N GLD TO 40E SNY TO BFF TO 40NW ONL
OCNL SEV TURB BTN 060 AND 160. RPRTD BY ACFT. CONDS ENDG 0426Z.

And, reports of severe turbulence from a Navajo, a King Air, and.. A 777!

LBF UUA /OV LBF 035060/TM 2250/FL150/TP PA46/TB MOD-SEV/RM KNOCKED THE AUTOPILOT OFF TWICE-ZDV
LBF UUA /OV LBF/TM 2355/FL120/TP BE20/SK LAYER AT 140/WX CLR BLO/TA M10/TB MDT-SVR /IC NONE/RM 20 MI AROUND LBF-ZDV
FSD UA /OV FSD/TM 0135/FL350/TP B777/TB OCNL SEV TURBC

 

[jason]

LBF! That would be smack over my home town. Tristan and Jesse were there just last week.

Kent, you coming to town?

If you make it in...I'll buy the beers (and the Tylenol).

 

[gprellwitz]

Come on Kent, we're talking NE! Not hard to stay well below 6000'!

 

[flyingcheesehead]

LBF! That would be smack over my home town. Tristan and Jesse were there just last week.

Kent, you coming to town?

If you make it in...I'll buy the beers (and the Tylenol).

Haha... I've been known to head for the worst weather I can find, but I have yet to penetrate a SIGMET!

Come on Kent, we're talking NE! Not hard to stay well below 6000'!

Well, in eastern NE maybe - Omaha is at 984 feet, but as you move west the terrain keeps going up. Cozad, about halfway across, is over 2500 feet; Kimball, near the western edge, is at 4926. LBF is North Platte, 2777 feet. So, not much over 3000 AGL.

Nebraska's flat - It's just tilted.