Clark1961
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Doesn't mean it won't try to bite you...
I was returning to FTG yesterday afternoon and there was a cloud mass moving over the Denver area. No discernible rain shafts but the bottom of the cloud mass was rather unsettled and "fuzzy".
I picked up flight following once I was over the mountains. The controller sounded like he was off his game with many self-corrections. There were frequent vectors to avoid weather to the departing airline traffic.
I cruised toward my destination with a leery outlook towards the weather. There were some rather curious dust clouds close to the DEN terminal which caught my eye and I thought "microburst." Shortly thereafter the controller commented he had aircraft going everywhere because of microbursts and they were flipping the approach.
That was enough for me. I skeedadled out to the east and then hooked back around to GXY. Checked the weather at GXY and it's all green. The helpful lineman at Greeley gave me the loaner for the night and I got to sleep in my own bed. Read about a microburst strong enough to down powerlines in Denver in the morning paper.
Interesting flight out of the mountains yesterday...
I was returning to FTG yesterday afternoon and there was a cloud mass moving over the Denver area. No discernible rain shafts but the bottom of the cloud mass was rather unsettled and "fuzzy".
I picked up flight following once I was over the mountains. The controller sounded like he was off his game with many self-corrections. There were frequent vectors to avoid weather to the departing airline traffic.
I cruised toward my destination with a leery outlook towards the weather. There were some rather curious dust clouds close to the DEN terminal which caught my eye and I thought "microburst." Shortly thereafter the controller commented he had aircraft going everywhere because of microbursts and they were flipping the approach.
That was enough for me. I skeedadled out to the east and then hooked back around to GXY. Checked the weather at GXY and it's all green. The helpful lineman at Greeley gave me the loaner for the night and I got to sleep in my own bed. Read about a microburst strong enough to down powerlines in Denver in the morning paper.
Interesting flight out of the mountains yesterday...
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