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Aug 13th, 2011 at 1:22am

patchz   Offline
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does stand for play time, doesn't it? Roll Eyes

And the area around Jackson Hole, Wyoming is a great place for it.

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If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.
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Reply #1 - Aug 13th, 2011 at 2:20am

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nice larry
 

Most people think that flying a plane is dangerous, except pilots because they know how easy it is.
Arguing with a pilot is like wrestling with a pig in the mud, after a while you begin to think the pig likes it.
                                    
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Reply #2 - Aug 13th, 2011 at 7:42am

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WOO HOO...wonderful Larry...great shots... Wink

Anyone trying to SCUD RUN those clouds will be rubbing the bottom of their knickerbockers (Trousers ending above the kneers)... Grin

Scud Running:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud_running

In general aviation, scud running is a practice in which pilots lower their altitude to avoid clouds or Instrument meteorological conditions (IMC). The goal of scud running is to stay clear of weather to continue flying with visual, rather than instrument, references. This practice is widely accepted to be dangerous, and has led to death in many cases from pilots flying into radio towers and high tension wires; however, even instrument-rated pilots sometimes elect to take the risk to avoid icing or embedded thunderstorms in cloud, or in situations where the minimum instrument altitudes are too high for their aircraft.[citation needed]

Scud running is occasionally referred to as "maintaining visual contact with the ground while avoiding physical contact with it" or "if the weather's too bad to go IFR, we'll go VFR."[1] A procedure under instrument flight rules (IFR), called a contact approach, is often referred to as a form of "legalized" scud running.[2]

The term gets its name from scud, which is used to describe small, ragged, low cloud fragments that are unattached to a larger cloud base, and often seen with and behind cold fronts and thunderstorm gust fronts. [3]

I just know Larry someone will ask you what is:
(1) Knickerbockers
(2) Scud running

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Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug
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Reply #3 - Aug 13th, 2011 at 12:01pm

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Thanks Doug. Smiley

Knickerbockers? Wasn't that an American rock band that rode on the coattails of the British rock group, The Beatles? Roll Eyes  Grin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knickerbockers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickerbockers_(clothing)

Actually, I had forgotten about certain clouds being called scud. Had not heard that term in a long time, except in reference to a certain type of missle. Roll Eyes

But the majority of my flights do consist of scud running, many below 1200'.  Wink
 

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Reply #4 - Aug 13th, 2011 at 12:02pm

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hyperpep111 wrote on Aug 13th, 2011 at 2:20am:
nice larry


Thanks. Smiley
 

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