This is Not Right!

[kyleb]

We’re trying to fly outta town today, leaving around 4:00. This is Windy’s forecast at that time. The only weather forecasted is the yellow blob over my home airfield.

 

[eman1200]

Maybe that’s just the sun reflecting on your shiny airplane

 

[MauleSkinner]

The only weather forecasted is the yellow blob over my home airfield.

What is that weather that’s forecast?

 

[robin ardoin]

What is that weather that’s forecast?

I wouldn't have the foggiest idea.

 

[Salty]

I wouldn't have the foggiest idea.

I must have mist something.

 

[eman1200]

BR it’s cold in here

 

[kyleb]

What is that weather that’s forecast?

Clearly, a yellow blob.

 

[kyleb]

What is that weather that’s forecast?

A yellow blob of rain and thunder.

 

[Bob Noel]

Acid rain

 

[kyleb]

Acid rain

Probably this thing again.

 

[Bob Noel]

Charlie!

 

[TCABM]

Well, has the forecast panned out?

 

[eman1200]

If you’re at Rome I’m seeing 20% chance of rain, 5k’ ceilings. SEND IT.

 

[schmookeeg]

I wonder what the METAR abbreviation for "SMOTE" would be. I dunno the French equivalent

 

[GoFly]

Just pull up a better forecast from someplace else, and use theirs.

 

[kyleb]

Believe or not, the forecast was amazingly accurate.

 

[kyleb]

And we landed in College Station 4 hours later.

 

[Sierra1]

Believe or not, the forecast was amazingly accurate.View attachment 145979

lol that’s hilarious, pretty much spot on in one little area.

 

[4RNB]

Sweet plane! How long did it take?

 

[kyleb]

Sweet plane! How long did it take?

About 6 years.

 

[Jim_R]

And we landed in College Station 4 hours later.

Sweet plane! How long did it take?

I'm gonna say...4 hours?

 

[GoFly]

About 6 years.

And he need a fantastic job

 

[kyleb]

The trip back was a little harder. First, the FBO at Easterwood field charges >$7 for Avgas. So I bought just enough to get *somewhere else*, knowing we'd have headwinds on the way home and would need to stop anyway. So we stopped at 3R4 - Hart, Louisiana. Fuel was $4.15, as I recall. The headwinds did happen, so we spent a fair amount of time at 3500' fighting about 20 knots on the nose with turbulence thrown in for fun. So I got 5 more hours of Day, VFR time towards my PPSEL rating... ;-)

 

[Ed Haywood]

There used to be an acro contest in Rome every May. They moved it to La Grange last year. It's a really good contest, if you are interested in watching.

 

[kyleb]

There used to be an acro contest in Rome every May. They moved it to La Grange last year. It's a really good contest, if you are interested in watching.

That's the one dedicated to Mark Fullerton. A great guy I used to fly with. Had a stroke before a business meeting. The attendees thought he was acting odd, but didn't divert him to get medical care. He ran off the road on the way to his next stop and ultimately died - I don't remember if it was from the stroke or the wreck. Anyway, great guy. Much loved at his home field of Calhoun, which is about 20 NM East of Rome, where that contest was founded.

Looks like a May event. Keep me posted...