Lake Havasu lunch!

[EricJ]

We were stuck under a low layer of crap pretty much all day.   Would've liked to have made it out otherwise. 

 

[N201MKTurbo]

13 hours ago, kortopates said:

That's too bad. My ceilings where twice that high, but even the mountains where obscured all day and I much prefer IFR to navigate the Bravo. But even so it was an easy IFR flight, IMC to 8300' on the way out and then smooth sailing above the tops at 15000' with a nice tail wind giving us 217 kts over the ground. On the way back pretty much the same except for some nasty clear air bumps in the descent down to 10K as we approached JLI but that only lasted a minute or so. Then it was vectors to the final for the localizer IMC.

Steve @stevesm20b was an excellent host and came out to greet us after arriving later than expected

Unfortunately, not only did me miss getting Steve's girlfriend Julie and friend Sean in the picture, we also forgot to get another picture when Charles @xcrmckenna showed a bit later.

I know, it wouldn't have been a very difficult IFR flight. The freezing level was above 10000 so that shouldn't have been an issue. I'm IFR current and so is my airplane. The flight would have been longer by 20% or so, it always is. 

I guess my mind set is that HII is just a short hop across the desert and there is never a reason to do it IFR. There was yesterday. 

Any time I fly into SoCal airspace I do it IFR. If I was based at KSEE I would do all my flying IFR. My last approach in actual was to Gillespie. When you live around here IFR is for going far away and KHII isn't far away.

[thinwing]

Sorry I missed it but it would have been a 5 hour slog out and back with mod icing till I got on top...just too much work for Sunday ,so I stayed home and watched tree branches crashing down on my porch