Monday, July 9th, 2007 09:51 am
Wow that's a heck of a storm right over this airport

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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.
Monday, July 9th, 2007 06:40 pm (UTC)
Sounds awful. Sounds like if I'd been there, they'd'a had to cart me off to the asylum on landing.
Monday, July 9th, 2007 06:44 pm (UTC)
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!
Monday, July 9th, 2007 07:59 pm (UTC)
is the gas cap supposed to look like that?

Yecch. I thought seeing that in the car while driving was annoying enough.
Monday, July 9th, 2007 08:04 pm (UTC)
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.")
Monday, July 9th, 2007 08:09 pm (UTC)
Walk around the BACK of the plane.

Important safety tip. Check. :-)
Monday, July 9th, 2007 08:21 pm (UTC)
No kidding. Horrible to contemplate the failure mode the other way around.
Monday, July 9th, 2007 08:26 pm (UTC)
Wasn't that in the first Indiana Jones movie?
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Monday, July 9th, 2007 08:27 pm (UTC)
Note: not good advice for pusher props. See also "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
Monday, July 9th, 2007 08:28 pm (UTC)
Well, yeah, that's seems like a given. Know your plane.
Monday, July 9th, 2007 09:24 pm (UTC)
Ah yes, that's where I saw it. I knew it was gorily used in some action thingy.
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 12:27 am (UTC)
Oooh. I'm glad you got home safe and sound!
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 12:56 am (UTC)
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.
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 01:27 pm (UTC)
YIKES -- glad you got home safely!
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 04:16 pm (UTC)
Thanks! It wasn't dangerous, just really really really annoying after a while.