ScottM
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iBazinga!
On Saturday I went flying to Fort Wayne (KSMD) to visit my nieces. The WX looked like it was going to be VFR the whole route of flight with only a SCT layer at 4-6k. I was thinking of just heading over to the lake front and then cutting the corner off and getting there in about 1hr 30minutes.
But as I was getting closer to going some fluffy cumulas started moving in and looking more BKN at 3k to me. Also there was a large TFR for an airshow blocking my lake route over Indiana. So decided to just file IFR.
The route is a 180 heading off of my airport and then at some point direct to EON and then direct KSMD (see other thread on Michigan routing).
A few minutes after take off I was cleared to 4000. This has me at the extreme western edge of the Chicago Class B and just inside of it. About the time I was getting to pass the DPA VOR I hear a traffic call for traffic 500 feet below me and headed at me. I tell ATC I am looking but I am in and out of IMC as those nice fluffy cumulas' really were at 4000 (tops at 6000).
But I do get a break and see the traffic. And what do my eyes behold but a glint of silver and a large multi engine prop plane. I count the engines and there are four. I stare at it and have seen the hundreds of times in movies and pictures and only once before in person. But it is clearly a B-17.
AND IT WENT RIGHT UNDER ME!!! It was sooo cool.
Just at that time I entered a cloud and that was it I never saw it again.
What a cool sight to behold.
But as I was getting closer to going some fluffy cumulas started moving in and looking more BKN at 3k to me. Also there was a large TFR for an airshow blocking my lake route over Indiana. So decided to just file IFR.
The route is a 180 heading off of my airport and then at some point direct to EON and then direct KSMD (see other thread on Michigan routing).
A few minutes after take off I was cleared to 4000. This has me at the extreme western edge of the Chicago Class B and just inside of it. About the time I was getting to pass the DPA VOR I hear a traffic call for traffic 500 feet below me and headed at me. I tell ATC I am looking but I am in and out of IMC as those nice fluffy cumulas' really were at 4000 (tops at 6000).
But I do get a break and see the traffic. And what do my eyes behold but a glint of silver and a large multi engine prop plane. I count the engines and there are four. I stare at it and have seen the hundreds of times in movies and pictures and only once before in person. But it is clearly a B-17.
AND IT WENT RIGHT UNDER ME!!! It was sooo cool.
Just at that time I entered a cloud and that was it I never saw it again.
What a cool sight to behold.