94touring

Wake up this morning at 7am and call the weather briefer. At the time the weather was good enough to fly, clouds were 7k overcast but an airmat for icing. Bad news was at 9am the weather was going to turn bad with rain and the clouds were coming down to 3k. My flight was at 8:30 so I decided to weather cancel since the rain was moving in and clouds were going to be a factor. Call this guy up and give him all the details on the weather and he's like well go ahead and go down there and get the plane to see what its going to do. So I'm thinking to myself **** this guy is going to make me drive my *** down there to just turn right back around. I gather my **** and head out at 7:45. As soon as I pull the car out of the garage it begins to sprinkle. I'm thinking this is ******* stupid. By the time I get to the airport at 8 the clouds are down to 4k broken and 5k overcast and its a steady light shower. So I call this guy again. I'm like man are you down here yet cause its raining already and the clouds are moving in. Then he says acting like I'm a lazy bum who doesn't want to fly...well if you don't want to fly...you can drive your car in the rain you know, so you can fly too. I kinda laugh it off and say well i'll see you when you get here. This crazy bastard wanted me to fly in the rain in icing conditions with clouds moving in and visibility dropping, **** that. Not like you can just pull over on the side of the road like a "car". If I were instrument rated in a instrument rated plane with de-icing I'd go. I'll probably ready about him in the paper one day. He's a new instructor and about 22 years old, maybe he's a little too gung ho. I think the part that irritates me the most is, I could easily see another student or someone really fresh get peer pressured into flying, then get caught in shitty weather and killing themselves. I refuse to take chances on days like today.

GreyGT-C

****** fair weather pilot.....

PhoenixDownVII

I'm sorry, What'd you say? Is your shirt off or what? Pic's damnit.

boxrs4sale

sounds like you have a basket case.. i'd finda new one





this past weekend i was doing one of my solo cross country. first off, i fly out of the air base here, so when you file a flight plan, nothing is activated until you take off. second, they put me in a "better" airplane because the one i was signed up to use had a problem with the vor...



in other words; base operations takes care of activating your plan when you take off.. well, they activated it as soon as they recieved the fax, instead of when i took off... so im on my first leg... made great time, and landed in ocean city.. i walk inside to get an endorsement, and the lady at the front desk is like "thank God you made it".. "your 30 minutes late"... i was like "um, no, im 30 minutes early ( i always give myself an extra 30 minutes on my flight plan just in case anything were to happen)



so i close my plan, get it all straightened out just before they sent search and rescue operationis out to look for me..



so im on my second leg out to accomack, va.. ceiling was at 4500' and visibility was dropping rapidly. overcast like crazy and i was afraid that i wouldn't be able to make out the airport on the ground soon.. anyways, weather starts clearing up and im about 5-10 minutes from where im supposed to land. i start looking for the airport, but i cannot find it (just a tiny strip... pretty small runway) so I decide to use vor and figure if i was above or below the airport.. guess what.. vor was screwed in this airplane too.. i couldn't select a frequency on the dial... now its either keep going (thinking i may have over/undershot the airport) or turn around.. finally airport comes into sight.. relief..



anyways, from having them almost call search and rescue, to flying an airplane with crap instruments and weather looking iffy the whole way down.. it was an experience...



umm.. but yeah, ditch the instructor... (sorry about the story)

GreyGT-C

[quote name='94touring' date='Mar 15 2005, 10:49 AM']get caught in shitty weather and killing themselves. I refuse to take chances on days like today.


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You just needed a few mixed drinks to calm your nerves before the flight.

94touring

Yeah dude I got lost on my first solo cross country. There were about 10 minutes I was confused and very worried. Finally got it figured out and amended my flight plan. Turns out I calculated the wrong heading, just enough to mess me up good after 30 minutes. The part of OK I was flying over didn't have good landmarks for checkpoints so that didn't help. We file our flight plan on the ground, but activate it once airborn.

GreyGT-C

you haven't learned to navigate by IFR yet? ( I Follow Roads)

Sinful7

[quote name='GreyGT-C' date='Mar 15 2005, 10:30 AM']you haven't learned to navigate by IFR yet? ( I Follow Roads)


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HOMO

boxrs4sale

[quote name='94touring' date='Mar 15 2005, 09:28 AM'] We file our flight plan on the ground, but activate it once airborn.


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yeah, we do that when we are at any other airport, but when taking off at the air force base, they are required to activate it for us when we take off... kinda nice letting them worry about it.. oh, and when you land back at the air base, they are required to close it..



they screw up ALL THE TIME, i've been told that search and rescues get sent out pretty frequently because they are to lazy to do their job correctly.

boost_creep

[quote name='94touring' date='Mar 15 2005, 11:49 AM']Wake up this morning at 7am and call the weather briefer. At the time the weather was good enough to fly, clouds were 7k overcast but an airmat for icing. Bad news was at 9am the weather was going to turn bad with rain and the clouds were coming down to 3k. My flight was at 8:30 so I decided to weather cancel since the rain was moving in and clouds were going to be a factor. Call this guy up and give him all the details on the weather and he's like well go ahead and go down there and get the plane to see what its going to do. So I'm thinking to myself **** this guy is going to make me drive my *** down there to just turn right back around. I gather my **** and head out at 7:45. As soon as I pull the car out of the garage it begins to sprinkle. I'm thinking this is ******* stupid. By the time I get to the airport at 8 the clouds are down to 4k broken and 5k overcast and its a steady light shower. So I call this guy again. I'm like man are you down here yet cause its raining already and the clouds are moving in. Then he says acting like I'm a lazy bum who doesn't want to fly...well if you don't want to fly...you can drive your car in the rain you know, so you can fly too. I kinda laugh it off and say well i'll see you when you get here. This crazy bastard wanted me to fly in the rain in icing conditions with clouds moving in and visibility dropping, **** that. Not like you can just pull over on the side of the road like a "car". If I were instrument rated in a instrument rated plane with de-icing I'd go. I'll probably ready about him in the paper one day. He's a new instructor and about 22 years old, maybe he's a little too gung ho. I think the part that irritates me the most is, I could easily see another student or someone really fresh get peer pressured into flying, then get caught in shitty weather and killing themselves. I refuse to take chances on days like today.


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