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From: ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Grey skies and OOPS !
Message-ID: <5830@kestrel.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 22:33:45 EST
Article-I.D.: kestrel.5830
Posted: Fri Mar 14 22:33:45 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Mar-86 01:26:13 EST
References: <1951@cae780.UUCP>
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Organization: Kestrel Institute, Palo Alto, CA
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Keywords: nervous excitement

In article <1951@cae780.UUCP>, rje@cae780.UUCP (Bob Evans) writes:
> 
> I went flying last weekend for the first time in a month, and had an
> 'interesting' ending to the flight. I was on about a three mile final,
> with the airport in sight, when visibility went to zero !  No view
> ahead, or below. The clouds above had opened up with a rain shower
> that was _heavy_ !

That caught out one of the ATPs from our club, too, on the
way to Hayward from Palo Alto. It's been hard to predict
around here for the last few weeks.
It can happen to everybody, and it's always anxious. Even
if the pilot is rated, he's not following instrument
procedures, which are what guarantee obstacle clearance,
and there are all those VFR pilots flying around
in the soup with him all of a sudden..........
Thank goodness they don't last for long.

Peter Ladkin