Merry Christmas to ME

[co2bruce]

Santa was very nice to us this year. A new 650 and a new 796. Wahoooo.

[Marauder]

You guys from Florida are killing me... I see you in that T shirt... Was 12F at my house this morning. BTW -- nice upgrade!

[co2bruce]

What? It doesn't really get below 50 anywhere, does it? At 50 all molecular motion stops in Florida.

[TWinter]

Nice upgrade..Congrats

[Oscar Avalle]

You must have been really nice this year...otherwise Santa would not have left you those gifts...congratulations!

[Danb]

You must have really been a good boy. Plus you don't have to shovel snow. Very nice

[aviatoreb]

Santa and his avionics elves installed that nicely

[aviatoreb]

Santa and his avionics elves installed that nicely

[Hank]

Erik,

Glad to see you're surviving the ice with electricity intact! The news reports make it look bad your way.

[yvesg]

Weather has been pretty bad here for the last few weeks. Keep shoveling every second day. As soon as the weather clears-up, I will take off, fly in a somehow southwest bound heading. Plan is to go visit my son near L.A. Will stop say Hi to Lacee along the way. This will not be as exciting as Mike's but will be challenging for a French Canadian :-)

It will take about 18 hours flight time to get there.

Yves

[Marauder]

Erik,

Glad to see you're surviving the ice with electricity intact! The news reports make it look bad your way.

But it is soooo cold that he is stuttering.

[Danb]

Smooth move Yves

[aaronk25]

Weather has been pretty bad here for the last few weeks. Keep shoveling every second day. As soon as the weather clears-up, I will take off, fly in a somehow southwest bound heading. Plan is to go visit my son near L.A. Will stop say Hi to Lacee along the way. This will not be as exciting as Mike's but will be challenging for a French Canadian :-)

It will take about 18 hours flight time to get there.

Yves

Yvesg,

Does your route take you by southeastern MN? Would be nice to say hi again if it does or stop in EAU and meet up for lunch?

Aaron

[M016576]

Luckyyyyyy!

[aviatoreb]

Erik,

Glad to see you're surviving the ice with electricity intact! The news reports make it look bad your way.

 

Thanks for asking Hank.  We dodged a bullet.  It ice-rained for 48 hours solid, and laid down 2.5'' of ice on everything.  It was 22F and steady rain freezing and sticking to everything - but 50F just 50 mi East, and stuck like that for 2 days.  Thankfully right here the power grid survived!  I was sure it was going down, but it didn't.  Just nearby here folks have been without power for days.  My hand was quite worn out on Monday from chipping ice off my car for an hour with a screw driver - too many toys in my garage to fit the car....  We have been having fun and staying warm by the fire, and playing outside here too.  See pictures.

 

The weather has been nice on and off between snow.  I really wish I could fly tomorrow - need to go to Hartford - and weather will be gorgeous -  but it seems unlikely.  The runway is covered in a solid 2.5'' sheet of ice, and the plow can't get through.  Each bit of snow they plow off but I just checked and braking action is nil.  Yesterday was colder and sometimes with uber-cold snow it can be sticky like sand and actually provide some braking action on ice, but today it is 28F - nothing.  We shall see tomorrow - but bugger seems unlikely.

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[yvesg]

Yvesg,

Does your route take you by southeastern MN? Would be nice to say hi again if it does or stop in EAU and meet up for lunch?

Aaron

Not likely Aaron. It would be nice to see again for sure. On my way there, I will overfly the following states:

Michigan

Illinois

Missouri

Kansas

Oklahoma

Texas

New Mexico

Arizona

California

[drapo]

Weather has been pretty bad here for the last few weeks. Keep shoveling every second day. As soon as the weather clears-up, I will take off, fly in a somehow southwest bound heading. Plan is to go visit my son near L.A. Will stop say Hi to Lacee along the way. This will not be as exciting as Mike's but will be challenging for a French Canadian :-)

It will take about 18 hours flight time to get there.

Yves

C'est ça, laisse-nous geler dans le Nord!...   Blue skies Yves, and enjoy your new GPS along the way!

[yvesg]

C'est ça, laisse-nous geler dans le Nord!...   Blue skies Yves, and enjoy your new GPS along the way!

It was hard getting out of canada. When we took off from ottawa, planning to land in michigan, we had to divert to... peterborough! Snow precipitations made a wall of IFR visibility before us. When we tried again it was low ceilings.

We barely made it later in that day to michigan to clear customs. We did 7 hours today with a nasty 40 knots headwind half of the way. I am now in Kansas and shall be in New Mexico tomorrow night.

Yves

[Marauder]

Excellent progress!