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MAY 25, 2025

I cancelled the flight to my hometown due to a combination of strong winds aloft, surface winds forecast at 20-something knots gusting to 30-something knots, and potential for IFR conditions and icing to boot. Timing was unfortunate because I chose that leg of the flight to relieve an over-pressurized bladder.

OAT

Pilot Institute

MARCH 6, 2025

Pilots are required to check for NOTAMs along their relevant routes or locations before the start of a flight. NOTAMs are very important in that they can provide information that can cause a pilot to change their flight plans, such as Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) or an airport that has become temporarily unavailable.

Pilot

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

September 24: Cloudscapes Date Aircraft Route of Flight Time (hrs) Total (hrs) 24 Sep 2023 N21481 SDC (Sodus, NY) - 5B2 (Saratoga Springs, NY) 1.9 Even slowed by a 25 knot headwind, the airplane still saved time. From flight planning, I knew that we would experience rain, instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), and darkness.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

AV Web

MAY 22, 2024

This is often the result of the aircraft picking up excessive airspeed as a result of pilot disorientation in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), followed by an abrupt pitch-up after exiting the bottom of the cloud. local time, roughly three hours into the flight. FlightAware data stopped at that point.

Tail

AV Web

MAY 22, 2024

This is often the result of the aircraft picking up excessive airspeed as a result of pilot disorientation in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), followed by an abrupt pitch-up after exiting the bottom of the cloud. Never exceed speed (Vne) for the V-35 is 192 knots. FlightAware data stopped at that point.

Tail

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OCTOBER 28, 2023

Putting the front to our tails, we flew in IMC (instrument meteorological conditions) for 30 minutes before emerging under a clear blue sky. We flew at 7,000 feet with as much as a 30 knot tailwind. At Million Air, I helped myself to a Coke while I filed an IFR flight plan home. (In Better safe than sorry.

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