Was this the day Shadd, Cal and I were there? That was an awesome day (although we did a bit better obeying FAR103, which meant not nearly as beautiful a flight)
Was this the day Shadd, Cal and I were there? That was an awesome day....
That is the day. I had no plans on flying that day either but the POM gang were riding in to town....
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.....(although we did a bit better obeying FAR103, which meant not nearly as beautiful a flight) ...
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Actually, the cloud proximity flying was reasonably within 1200' AGL in Class G airspace.
The old edit used PIP which got a lot of complaints and I roughed out a new edit switching perspectives and never finished it. I just added the sound track and just posted it as is. I was going to remove the part where I got swallowed up for 15 seconds but that is a hazard of flying near or above clouds that pilots need to consider. In this case a big wad of orographic cloud formed upwind of me and the only way past it was through it. Going under it meant flying in between closely-spaced pine trees near the Billboard.
There have been incidents in the past where pilots misjudged cloud formation properties and landed in trees on Crestline Ridge. It's been a very long time since there has been a discussion of cloud hazards which can can start out FAR 103.23 compliant and end up all pear-shaped.
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