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Always Have an Out: The SLD Incident

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I filed the return flight plan from Mike's car along the way, remembering to file my preferred airway route plus a request to avoid flight over Lake Erie. When filing the return flight plan, I debated between cruise altitudes of 5,000 and 7,000 feet. Time for Plan B. The offending cloud layer concealed rain.

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Trial by Ice

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The Cessna 150 Since I was the only instrument rated pilot on the team, and the weather was marginal VFR, I chose to fly the 172, N7358G, up to Fairfield on an IFR flight plan above the clouds at 7,000 feet. My IFR flight plan called for a climb through some 4,000′ of clouds up to a cruise altitude of 7,000 feet.

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