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From: rje@cae780.UUCP (Bob Evans)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Grey skies and OOPS !
Message-ID: <1979@cae780.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 16:39:24 EST
Article-I.D.: cae780.1979
Posted: Thu Mar 20 16:39:24 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Mar-86 07:43:33 EST
References: <1951@cae780.UUCP> <5830@kestrel.ARPA>
Reply-To: rje@cae780.UUCP (Bob Evans)
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In article <5830@kestrel.ARPA> ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin) writes:
>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.
>  .
>  .
>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

Being one of those VFR pilots, I hope the reference 
"Thank goodness they don't last for long." was to
the storms and not the pilots !  :-) (just a joke,
Peter ...)


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