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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:26:31 -0600
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Ed Anderson wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bulent Aliev" <atlasyts@bellsouth.net>
>To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
>Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 4:58 PM
>Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: 3000 fpm :-) (unofficially)
>
>
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>>On 10/31/04 3:54 PM, "Ed Anderson" <eanderson@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
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>>>Hi Steve, good to hear from you.
>>>
>>>Yes, I always looked at the weather in SC just to see if I did get off
>>>      
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>what
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>
>>>it would be like a bit further south.  Generally the fog didn't start to
>>>lift until near the Georgia border.
>>>      
>>>
>>You guys have one year to get your instrument rating. Last year we had 6
>>rotary powered airplanes. This year two? We are going backwards?
>>Fin is the only one with real coconuts to fly in even if the tower told
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>him
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>>it is IFR (or fly period :) It was a great gathering as usual and we thank
>>Tracy and Laura for the hospitality and Laura's parents for landing them
>>their beautiful house.
>>Bulent
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>
>Ah! I see we are now using Finn's coconuts as the standard- are we?.  Well,
>this old ape is content to let the young ones with the big coconuts fly in
>that kind of weather.  Probably why you only see small coconuts on old apes
>{:>)
>
>Two winters ago I stupidly got myself in situation (clear Wx was being
>reported behind a cold front) flying at 8000 ft and trying to go over the
>tops of a "few clouds". I ended up spending 15-20 minutes in solid IFR and
>ice.  Ice formed on the canopy and in front of each fuel cap on the wing.
>Fortunately had pitot heat and remembered to turn it on before it was too
>late.  yes, I did the 180 thing but the weather had build up behind me
>quickly.
>
>Staying on the AI, altimeter and GPS, I was finally able to get down and
>below the weather at 1800 MSL.   I finally landed minus radio antenna (that
>the ice took off) just  north of Atlanta.   The first thing I saw when I
>staggered into the FBO's office through the blowing snow was an article
>posted to their reading board about the average time a non-instrument rated
>pilot lasted in IFR conditions was a few seconds short of 3 minutes. The
>experience and the article was  enough to shrink any oversized coconuts
>this old ape may have had. {:>)
>
>My plane is instrumented for IFR (fortunately) and I actually completed the
>instrument ground school and passed the FAA ground test just before I
>retired.  I then decided that there was probably risk in me completing an
>obtaining an IFR rating.  If you don't stay current - I think you are
>fooling yourself and just might end up in a situation beyond your current
>capabilities.
>
>Sorry, I didn't make it and missed seeing all you folks that did, but hope
>to make it next year.  Now if Tracy got a GPS approach for Shady Bend {:>)
>
>Best Regards
>
>Ed Anderson.
>

It ain't the coconuts to fly in that stuff; it's the coconuts to *drive* 
in it that seem to be missing.  (You think we are going to let you off 
that easy?)

Charlie