Ao Pilots- Who hates the weather?

[magman007]

The answer is I DO!!! IM getting really freekin tired of waking up in the wee hours of the morning (5:30) and walking over to the aero center to check the metars and find out that the ceiling is too low for flight, Damn Vfr conditions. For the past 2 weeks, i havnt been able to complete my cross country from KSLN(salina Kansas) to TKO(mancato kansas) the ceilings have been either too low, or visibility too low, or clouds moving in to make the ceiling too low on the return.

This is just getting old. I really cant wait to get private pilot out of the way, so that i may finally get onto the instrument stuff. get some real IFR time. Its just a bother.

Also, im sorry, but who in hell thought the E6-b was a good idea in its current form? it could be simplified in so many ways, it isnt even funny, but no, in its current stage, it is quite hard to actually get good, solid results. Yes, there are computerized e6-b's to be had, but our master CFI will not allow them to be used as a teaching tool. Try using one on your check ride, and the batterys end up loose in the cockpit. Bit of a bother isnt it?

other than that, if all goes will, il be taking good ol N815KS up and out to TKO.

btw, how many of you are comming to safecon this year? because its here at KSU, and we are showing off our brand new 172/r's with the brand new G1000 glass cockpits. Cessna is giving us the first 5 off the production line. How sweet huh? Gotta brag

[JimmyBeam]

thats why you fly arizona. no weather to worry about here. except its harder to get as much lift in the summertime with it being so hot. other than that its like 350 days a year of good weather

[MiniSpdRcr]

Oklahoma has been bad for at least 2 months . .. I am about to go insane...

[ntn4502]

I'll be happy after tomorrow, those freaking presidental TFRs have pissed me off to a new level

[ntn4502]

go to hell magman, look at this

TEMPO 0610 4SM -SHRA BR BKN050
FM1000 17013KT 5SM BR VCSH SCT012 OVC035
FM1400 23013KT 5SM -SHRA BR BKN012 OVC025
FM1600 24012KT 3SM -RA OVC008
TEMPO 1620 2SM RA BR
FM2100 29011KT 4SM -RA OVC010
FM0200 33011KT 5SM -SHRA BR OVC020

[magman007]

KSLN 020540Z 020606 36017G25KT P6SM OVC008
TEMPO 0610 OVC012
FM1000 35017KT P6SM OVC015
FM1500 36017KT P6SM OVC025
TEMPO 1518 BKN035
FM1800 01013KT P6SM SCT040


yea well... COMBAT THAT!!


guess im not flying tomorow either.... this is bullshiz to no end. its driving me insane. At this rate, i wont beable to finish my private before xmas.


btw, here is the METAR at the moment


KSLN 020553Z AUTO 36017G24KT 10SM OVC012 09/07 A3014 RMK AO2 PK WND 01026/0509 RAE06B33E42 SLP205 P0000 60003 T00890067 10111 20089 401830089 53027


ha, those presidential tfr's must blow ***, sucks to be you my friend, it really does.


and again, you guys comming to safe con?

oh and how many of yall are Alpha Eta Rho members?

Kappa Sigma Upsilon Representing

[magman007]

well, i got screwed on flying today! as i predicted.

heres what the metar and taf are showing at the moment


KSLN 021753Z 01017KT 10SM OVC023 09/03 A3033 RMK AO2 SLP274 T00890033 10094 20083 51008

KSLN 021734Z 021818 01015KT P6SM SKC
FM2300 01006KT P6SM SKC
FM1200 01006KT P6SM BKN060



looks like it might be clearing up in the evening, i can only hope. i want to fly my damn crosscountry and get it over with.

[Restola]

I would rather have bad weather than presidential TFRs. Living in a battleground state blows.

But...I'll be flying tomorrow no matter what. Have another IFR flight to do.

And we're justting getting Alpha Eta Rho back up at Kent. I was going to join...but I keep missing the meetings.

And for the E6-B comments...after you learn how to use the damn thing (because you do need to know it), get the AOPA flight planner. Or, what I did before that program existed was enter all the forumulas in an excel spreadsheet for my planning.

in fact...here it is:

http://www.restola.com/flightplanning.xls

Entertainment purposes only. I haven't used it in a while, so double check everything.

[Gunga]

Dunno...the weather can be a PITA, but it can work to your benefit.

I was trying to cram my IFR checkride in at the end of the semester and was having difficulty scheduling it. Turns out one day the clouds (scattered) were just low enough to rule out VFR flights...so I got my IFR checkride on a nice day with winds aloft at below 5 knots.

No crazy crabbing into the wind and all that...nice and easy.

[Koosh]

Wow... there are way too many acronyms in this thread...

At least now I know a little bit about how it feels like when me and my friend talk about paintball in front of my roomate... his face just goes blank while he tries to decifer what we're saying...

[ntn4502]

Wow... there are way too many acronyms in this thread...

At least now I know a little bit about how it feels like when me and my friend talk about paintball in front of my roomate... his face just goes blank while he tries to decifer what we're saying...

yea, well I just checked the TAFs and according to my SOPs I cant fly my P3 today, its MVFR and I need VFR to leave. Also I just checked my POH and it said my Vne = 149kts....back to reading my new FAR/AIM

[Chris42050]

Ok. Whats the deal with the clouds. Whenever I have flown we go above the clouds. On movies with plane disasters there is always bad weather. How can there be bad weather above the clouds. Or do they sometimes fly below clouds.

[Restola]

Ok. Whats the deal with the clouds. Whenever I have flown we go above the clouds. On movies with plane disasters there is always bad weather. How can there be bad weather above the clouds. Or do they sometimes fly below clouds.

Bad weather can go pretty high. While enroute on an airline though you probably will skirt about any clouds at all, for the sake of passenger comfort (and relatively little weather makes it above 30,000ft, so it usually isn't impossible to dodge). For takeoff and landing...you obviously have to fly lower.

But what they were talking about is the weather as it effects small aircraft, which generally fly under 10,000 feet. Obviously you can fly above some clouds (see my sig), but that usually involves flying through them, which you can't do under visual flight rules.

[magman007]

Well, another day down another day lost. Got up at 530 and walked over to the aero center to start planning, as our projected take off was at 7 am CST. everything is going fine, until 645, when clouds start to roll in for absolutely no reason. they werent projected to come in for another 4 hours, which would have given me plenty of time to fly to mancato and back, which was all in all an hour and 20 mins worth of flying.

So, after walking over, freezing my balls off in the 0*c weather, sitting there for an hour and planning and doubble checking, we call the FSS station and low and behold, theres the FN clouds. Just great. so now, im postponed until sunday, which means once again, going over, sitting and planning. i could freekin walk the whole thing by now if i wanted to, ive planned it so many god damned times, it isnt even funny any more.


Restola, on the Alpha Ehta Rho front, i reccomend that you do join, as the connections in the industry are endless, and im sure you know that this industry is all about who you know, and what they can do for you. It is alot of fun as well, not your typical TOGA TOGA TOGA frat.


Btw, you still have all avoided the big question, who is attending safecon this spring? if y'all make it out, me and some of my KSU buds want to take ya guys ballin. Ntn and restola specifically