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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: Jul 1, 2013
Description: One of my old favorites, SeaRey Cindy Bee, was finally going home to Minneapolis. There would be no straight line flight from Florida. Instead I arranged to pick up a buddy in Pensacola and head up the Mississippi River. That was the plan. It changed immediately.

“A buyer? The day before I’m leaving?”

On departure day the buyer arrived just before a tropical depression. Scattered storms gathered right over the factory at his appointed flight time. There would be no demo flight and no quick purchase decision. There was nothing to do but leave Cindy Bee to be considered some other day.

My buddy was waiting in Pensacola. Whiskey Tango was waiting in the Tajmahangar. No change of plans, then, just a change of planes.

And a change of paths. Running around the storms after a midday departure was the new way north and west
Date Taken: Jul 1, 2013
Place Taken: Near Ocala, FL
Owner: Dan Nickens
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Category: 422, Summer SeaReying
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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    One of the consequences of being diverted to an abnormally winding path around the summer storms was the serendipitous discovery of a great mine conversion. This old limestone mine has been reconfigured into a beautiful park.      Attachments:  

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Mine Field

    
  
Don Maxwell - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    That's the coolest looking quarry I've ever seen.     
  
Eric Batterman - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Big fish pond      Attachments:  

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Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Crossing the coastline was no linear affair: it was as convoluted as the storm evading path of my SeaRey.      Attachments:  

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Coastal Crossing

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Maneuvering clear of storms eventually involved a radical turn into Apalachicola Bay.      Attachments:  

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Storm Avoidance Scheme

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Cutting across the water avoided all the storms building along the bay shore.      Attachments:  

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Distant Storms

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    A narrow strip of dry out in the Gulf was enticing in the sun.      Attachments:  

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Sunshine on Bar

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Wedged in between on and off shore storms could be uncomfortable except for all the safe harbors for SeaReys along the Gulf Coast.      Attachments:  

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Squeeze Play

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Flying low and slow along the coast is like perusing the most spectacular art show imaginable. Patterns in the marsh are so beautifully sculpted as to make a low flying SeaRey pilot gasp with delight at their sight.      Attachments:  

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Coastal Art

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Remnants of dead storms left wispy memorials on the horizon.      Attachments:  

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Passing Storms

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    The intricate shallows offered many options for safe SeaRey harboring.      Attachments:  

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Back Bay

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    The beach curves to meet the distant storm waves.      Attachments:  

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Smooth Ways

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Following the coast left the storms to the hot inland for blue skies.      Attachments:  

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Clear Cruising

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Who needs GPS and radar when there is a clear line ahead?      Attachments:  

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Easy Navigation

    
  
Frank A. Carr - Jul 04,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Dan, doesn't the clear line lead straight into all kinds of restricted areas?     
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 04,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    It does indeed, Frank, but there is the Special Air Traffic Rule Eglin/Valparasio Terminal Area East/West Corridor Route that only requires SeaReys submit to Advisories (See Destin/Eglin AFB FL Part 93 Operations at <a href="http://faasafety.gov/gslac/ALC/course_catalog.aspx">http://faasafety.gov/gslac/ALC/course_catalog.aspx</a> for additional information.)<br />      Attachments:  

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Course Link

    
  
Frank A. Carr - Jul 05,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Thank you Dan. I've visited the site, completed the intro to the Part 93 airspace, and actually plowed through Chapter 1. This is harder than than the IFR rating! Or maybe I'm just old. I actually flew into Destin once, about 10 years ago, without ever taking the course, but I was on an IFR flight plan. Ah, for the old days: I flew over New York City once without ATC-- just my Dad and me in a C-120 with no radio, no VOR, no clearances, no transponder. And no, we didn't see the Wright Brothers that day. I still want to visit the Navy Museum at Pensacola, so it's IFR or take a bus.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or &gt; missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->     
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    The GPS warned of rising concrete cumulus ahead.      Attachments:  

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Concrete Cumulus

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    The distant storms sent waves of reminders that they were on the prowl.      Attachments:  

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Storm Waves

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    After landing in Pensacola I sent my buddy a text: “I’m here.” Words flashed back: “Me too!”<br /><br />He was nowhere in sight. Further investigation found his “here” was in Panama City, not Pensacola. His reply text: “You know I moved 10 years ago, right?”<br /><br />It’s easy to lose touch with buddies. Who knew he had moved? Nothing to do but backtrack along the coast. We agreed to meet halfway at Destin.<br />      Attachments:  

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Missed Connection

    
  
Dan Nickens - Jul 01,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Amazing how much can be missed when friends drift apart. The threat of late afternoon storms now kept us on the ground and gave us an evening to start catching up.      Attachments:  

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Storm Drifts

    


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