Weather still sucks…
Well today I was able to do a little bit of work. I managed to get 1.1 hours with a student who is ready to solo, but cant beacause of the weather. We stayed in the pattern and did 6 landings. I admit I was pushing it slightly. Visibility was about 4sm, and although they where saying sky clear below 12,000, it wasnt true. I had my student do some extremely tight patterns but they worked out well. He has had some of his best landings yet.
After the first student I decided to take up the other guy, the weather was looking like it was getting better. So we take off and I notice as we climb that its actually getting worse. We get to about 800′ (600′ agl) and I see a nice cloud about 200′ in front of us and I quickly call for the controls and level the plane out. Normaly pattern at Manassas is at 1200′. Lets not forget the tower was still reporting sky clear below 12,000. So I do a normal pattern at 800′, and let the student take over. I then quickly notified the tower that visibility had decreased well below 3sm, and that at traffic pattern altitude we would have needed a flight plan. So obviously we landed and ended it for the day.
It just sucks because both of my students are ready to solo, last week they werent able to fly ANY day due to weather and this week isnt looking any better. Here is the TAF for tomorrow:
KIAD 110301Z 110324 32004KT 2SM BR VCSH BKN010 OVC025
FM0500 00000KT 1SM BR VCSH BKN005 OVC010
FM0800 00000KT 1/2SM DZ FG BKN003 OVC010
FM1400 00000KT 4SM BR BKN007 OVC010
FM1600 16005KT 5SM BR SCT007 OVC010
Sunday, August 31st, 2008 @ 9:50 pm
nice blog & nce start to your career…but try correctly using one word you use often: “were” for “where” (as in where are you going, dude? Were you really there?)
–you’re (not “your”) welcome, dude