Ghery
Touchdown! Greaser!
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Ghery Pettit
The weather yesterday was scattered showers with a chance of occational thunderstorms. I had the Arrow reserved for the afternoon and drove to the airport on the chance that I could get some time in the pattern between bouts of low clouds. Insurance company requires 3 hours in a 180 day period or you get signed off by a CFI again. The 180 days was getting close.
Hit a great period between lousy weather and got in an hour in the pattern. Saw some rain showers headed for the field so I called it quits in time to get gas before the line boy and I would get wet. There were a few drops in the air as I was signing the receipt.
Taxiing back to the hangar I saw heavy precipitation on the taxiway ahead of me and by the time I got to the hangar and shut down it was pouring and hailing. Fortunately, we don't get damage causing hail around here too often, but I wasn't taking chances. I bailed out as quickly as I could shut down and ran for the hanger, opened it, grabbed the tow bar and headed back to the plane. I was slipping on the ramp while shoving it back under cover. Just after I got it under cover - BANG! I think that lightning bolt was right over head. Definitately a "glad I'm down here and not up there!" moment. Sure left a lot of water on the hangar floor from all the hail melting off the plane.
Ah, life in the Pacific Northwest. Now to get another 2 hours in before the 28th...
Hit a great period between lousy weather and got in an hour in the pattern. Saw some rain showers headed for the field so I called it quits in time to get gas before the line boy and I would get wet. There were a few drops in the air as I was signing the receipt.
Taxiing back to the hangar I saw heavy precipitation on the taxiway ahead of me and by the time I got to the hangar and shut down it was pouring and hailing. Fortunately, we don't get damage causing hail around here too often, but I wasn't taking chances. I bailed out as quickly as I could shut down and ran for the hanger, opened it, grabbed the tow bar and headed back to the plane. I was slipping on the ramp while shoving it back under cover. Just after I got it under cover - BANG! I think that lightning bolt was right over head. Definitately a "glad I'm down here and not up there!" moment. Sure left a lot of water on the hangar floor from all the hail melting off the plane.
Ah, life in the Pacific Northwest. Now to get another 2 hours in before the 28th...