Dave Siciliano
Final Approach
The weather was quite a challenge flying from the Dallas are to Greenville, SC yesterday morning. Forecasts showed moderate to severe thunderstorms in the Dallas area with a large system moving in from the west. Large stationary front along the normal routing slowly moving south.
I departed before the largest systems got to Dallas, but still had to deal with moderate rain from Dallas to Quitman; a few lightning strikes just to my right on the route and climbed through rain at -10 to -17C from about 16,000 upt to FL190. My one board radar clearly showed I'd break out shortly; NEXRAD on the 396 confirmed where the large system was (just right of track). Once I broke out, it was clear sailing to the greenville SC area with a great tail wind. Trued out at 204 and the ground track was between 235 and 250 most of the flight.
Center rerouted me right over Atlanta to Athens, began bringing me down there and it was a little late. Came down at 1,000 fpm and still had to be vectored south to get down to patter altitude.
Once I got clear of the bad weather just east of Dallas--great flight!
The P-Baron sure showed it's stuff on this flight. Never would have done it in the A-36.
Linking up with Carol and Bill tomorrow. Looking forward to meeting them in person. TSRA forecast for here tomorrow.
Dave
I departed before the largest systems got to Dallas, but still had to deal with moderate rain from Dallas to Quitman; a few lightning strikes just to my right on the route and climbed through rain at -10 to -17C from about 16,000 upt to FL190. My one board radar clearly showed I'd break out shortly; NEXRAD on the 396 confirmed where the large system was (just right of track). Once I broke out, it was clear sailing to the greenville SC area with a great tail wind. Trued out at 204 and the ground track was between 235 and 250 most of the flight.
Center rerouted me right over Atlanta to Athens, began bringing me down there and it was a little late. Came down at 1,000 fpm and still had to be vectored south to get down to patter altitude.
Once I got clear of the bad weather just east of Dallas--great flight!
The P-Baron sure showed it's stuff on this flight. Never would have done it in the A-36.
Linking up with Carol and Bill tomorrow. Looking forward to meeting them in person. TSRA forecast for here tomorrow.
Dave