jesse
Touchdown! Greaser!
Tristan and I flew to Hutchinson Kansas over the weekend to eat at the steakhouse located on the field, which was basically amazing.
We were originally planning on a late after-noon departure. I took a look at the radar Saturday morning and decided that we were going to have to depart a couple hours earlier to beat a storm that was heading towards KHUT.
We departed Lincoln and climbed to over 9,000 feet in an effort at staying above the weather. Like most of my attempts at staying on top, I had to spiral down or else we wouldn't have been able to maintain VFR. Power off, let the airspeed drop to near stall, full flaps..and down we come.
There were random fires being lit by farmers all over the place. This one didn't have anyone around it--so we thought maybe we'd help put it out.
The weather was decent VFR and we continued on towards our destination. A controller informed us that we might encounter moderate to heavy precipitation so we kept our eyes out.
We had a 396 onboard with XM and used it along with our eyes to adjust our route as needed. The storm was a slow mover and quite predictable.
We landed at KHUT and neither of us was hungry for supper. The Cosmosphere space museum is only a couple miles away so we called a local taxi. I hate taking the taxi but there was no other option.
The taxi arrived and I was a bit shocked. Honestly I am sure that this taxi was without the doubt more dangerous than anything I've ever done in an airplane:
Either the car was going to fall apart or the driver was going to have a heart attack.
We were thankful to survive the taxi. Although slightly wet, as his passenger window was busted and it was pouring outside.
The steak was great and the carrot cake desert was bigger than my head
After we ate we waited for the weather to clear and finally took off at around midnight.
We were originally planning on a late after-noon departure. I took a look at the radar Saturday morning and decided that we were going to have to depart a couple hours earlier to beat a storm that was heading towards KHUT.
We departed Lincoln and climbed to over 9,000 feet in an effort at staying above the weather. Like most of my attempts at staying on top, I had to spiral down or else we wouldn't have been able to maintain VFR. Power off, let the airspeed drop to near stall, full flaps..and down we come.
There were random fires being lit by farmers all over the place. This one didn't have anyone around it--so we thought maybe we'd help put it out.
The weather was decent VFR and we continued on towards our destination. A controller informed us that we might encounter moderate to heavy precipitation so we kept our eyes out.
We had a 396 onboard with XM and used it along with our eyes to adjust our route as needed. The storm was a slow mover and quite predictable.
We landed at KHUT and neither of us was hungry for supper. The Cosmosphere space museum is only a couple miles away so we called a local taxi. I hate taking the taxi but there was no other option.
The taxi arrived and I was a bit shocked. Honestly I am sure that this taxi was without the doubt more dangerous than anything I've ever done in an airplane:
Either the car was going to fall apart or the driver was going to have a heart attack.
We were thankful to survive the taxi. Although slightly wet, as his passenger window was busted and it was pouring outside.
The steak was great and the carrot cake desert was bigger than my head
After we ate we waited for the weather to clear and finally took off at around midnight.
