Highlights from the trip: July 8

[cjsmith]

Wow that's a heck of a storm right over this airport

RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN

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is the gas cap supposed to look like that? aw crud, we better land and fix it

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man I'm glad we're home.

Comments

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

Sounds awful. Sounds like if I'd been there, they'd'a had to cart me off to the asylum on landing.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, at one point Rob and I mentioned that you would not have been happy with this flight. It wasn't check-the-ceiling-for-dents awful, but heck, I like acro and *I* was getting tired of it. Bleah!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

is the gas cap supposed to look like that?

Yecch. I thought seeing that in the car while driving was annoying enough.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hah, yeah, we weren't best pleased -- especially since those caps cost a thousand bucks or so to replace. A quick stop at some random unattended strip of pavement fixed that easily enough though. We didn't even have to shut down, which at that density altitude with a hot turbocharged plane is a real win. (Quote: "Check that the other side is properly seated, too? Walk around the BACK of the plane.")

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Walk around the BACK of the plane.

Important safety tip. Check. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

No kidding. Horrible to contemplate the failure mode the other way around.

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that in the first Indiana Jones movie?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, that's where I saw it. I knew it was gorily used in some action thingy.

[ckd]

Note: not good advice for pusher props. See also "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, that's seems like a given. Know your plane.

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

Oooh. I'm glad you got home safe and sound!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! We're very lucky to have NEXRAD weather radar downloaded to a little handheld unit Rob has mounted to the yoke. It just paints precipitation, but that's good enough to let us avoid anything truly dangerous.

[redgrrl.livejournal.com]

YIKES -- glad you got home safely!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It wasn't dangerous, just really really really annoying after a while.