Popular Post Airehead Posted June 29, 2015 Popular Post Share #1 Posted June 29, 2015 We ended up coming home today because the weather was predicted to be awful for most of the route tomorrow. Now of course it has changed to be better but we are already home.In pre-flighting the plane, Mr. Aire found water in the right tank. That scared the beegeesus out of me! He sumped some into a mason jar and that had water in it too. Cuss and repeat. Nice young man at the airport denied it was an issue with their fuel and blamed the huge rain storm. We have been tied down outside in storms before with no issue. After an hour and some more sumping, Mr. Aire said we could go. Left tank was not an issue so we used that for the climb out. I was scared. Trust the pilot in command.About 2 hours of the trip were instrument conditions. It makes me uneasy to spend that much time in the clouds. My favorite flying is severe clear. Trust the instruments.We were less than 6 miles from our home airport. Could not see a blasted thing even though we knew eaxtly where the airport was waiting. Getting set up for the ILS approach when the air traffic controller said, "Wait, this isn't going to work. I am wrong. I need you to turn......" That was odd and he quickly puts two jets in front of us. Trust the air traffic controller.Back on track, still can't see anything. We were only a few miles from the runway. Suddenly, broke through and there was runway 4. Trust the training. Trust the practice.Safe and sound on the ground. Everything went exactly as it should have. The pre-flight found an issue that would have been trouble in the air. The instruments worked as they should. ATC was on top of things. Mr. Aire's million hours of training and flying made this no big deal to him. Apparently, I was the only one who had a bad flight.At home, finishing the evening with a Chocolate Porter compliments of Old NO#7. I definitely trust the brewer! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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