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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Sep 24, 2006
Description:
“Red skies at morning, pilots take warning.”
The early call to Flight Service wasn’t quite so foreboding. Just some scattered showers with high ceilings were predicted for the short flight to the SeaRey’s new home. The briefer paused once, mentioning a nearby station reporting scattered low clouds at 500’.
“Must be one of those automated stations,” I suggested.
“Yup. You can’t trust those things.”
I heard and believed.
The light rain falling at the airport put some urgency in my preparations. I was thwarted, however, when another SeaRey builder approached. He wanted to show me the one he was building. How can you refuse to see someone’s burgeoning pride and joy?
When I finally did get off an hour later than I had planned, the rain was steady. I was a bit concerned about the un-oiled air filters, but I was sooo close to getting the airplane home that we both had get-there-itis. This feeling was fueled by the prediction that the weather would be getting really bad in the late afternoon.
Passing Augusta I was starting to have second thoughts. The reputed lower clouds were starting to appear as a reality. I was buoyed somewhat by the guys in C172s doing their patterns at the airport. “If they’re flying, I’m flying,” I rationalized.
That was before I heard one report he was making a quick return to base before it got any worse.
It got worse. Inside the cockpit I was getting wet from windscreen leaks. That was nothing new. I hadn’t ever melted before.
What was new was water dripping down from the center section canopy brace. Normally I wouldn’t have worried about that, except this airplane had a master switch, starter button, and mag buttons all located overhead. I turned on the super sensitive smoke sensor in my noise to high alert and waited for the worst.
Date Taken:
Sep 24, 2006
Place Taken:
Old Orchard Beach, ME
Owner:
Dan Nickens
File Name:
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Category:
238, Free Ride North
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