Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:30:10 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [24.25.9.101] (HELO ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 2994951 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:19:09 -0500 Received: from HappyDesktop (cpe-024-163-075-138.nc.rr.com [24.163.75.138]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with SMTP id i1GNJ6q4018448 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:19:07 -0500 (EST) From: "Matt Hapgood" X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" Subject: Flying into upstate NY X-Original-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:19:06 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00D3_01C3F4B9.5D42C590" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal In-reply-to: X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00D3_01C3F4B9.5D42C590 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The wife and I have to go to a wedding in Saratoga Springs, NY in mid March. I can't imagine a worse place to be in mid-march, but they didn't ask me. Anyway, I just flew in from Florida yesterday in my L-360, and had my first experience with icing. Quite an exciting trip. We were in the soup pretty much the entire flight down and back. On the way back we got fairly heavy icing at 10,000 feet over SC. I dropped to 5,000 feet and it all peeled off on the way down. But the plane could barely hold 125 KIAS at 10k with the ice. Then we picked up short final into RDU while on the glideslope. We broke out of the clouds about 600 feet but I couldn't see out the windscreen until about 300 feet due to the ice that had very quickly accumulated on the canopy. So I have concerns about the weather in upstate NY in March. Is it predictable enough that I may be able to get in and out without too much problem, or am I doomed to 95% probability of crappy weather? Or, even if it looks good before I leave for the weekend, that it deteriorates rapidly and unpredictably? I hate the thought of commercial flights into Albany, but I also hate the idea of being a lawn dart due to ice and hills... Thanks, Matt ------=_NextPart_000_00D3_01C3F4B9.5D42C590 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

The wife = and I have=20 to go to a wedding in Saratoga Springs, NY in mid March. I can't = imagine a=20 worse place to be in mid-march, but they didn't ask = me.

Anyway, I just flew in from = Florida=20 yesterday in my L-360, and had my first experience with icing. = Quite an=20 exciting trip. We were in the soup pretty much the entire flight = down and=20 back. On the way back we got fairly heavy icing at 10,000 feet = over=20 SC. I dropped to 5,000 feet and it all peeled off on the way = down. =20 But the plane could barely hold 125 KIAS at 10k with the ice. =20 Then we picked up = short final=20 into RDU while on the glideslope. We broke out of the clouds about = 600=20 feet but I couldn't see out the windscreen until about 300 feet due to = the ice=20 that had very quickly accumulated on the canopy.

So I have concerns about the = weather=20 in upstate NY in March. Is it predictable enough that I may be = able to get=20 in and out without too much problem, or am I doomed to 95% probability = of crappy=20 weather? Or, even if it looks good before I leave for the weekend, = that it=20 deteriorates rapidly and unpredictably?

I hate the thought of = commercial=20 flights into Albany, but I also hate the idea of being a lawn dart due = to ice=20 and hills...

Thanks,

Matt

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