Hitting trees is bad....mmmmmkay?

Derg said:
That's a nice FBO. Sat there for a few hours waiting for the Grizzlies to show up. Golden Tee machine in the break room and it was more fun watching the corporate guys contort when I turned the TV off Fox and put on The Kardashians.

Oh, silly old people. ;)
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I reread that a few times before I fully grasped that you were talking about a basketball team and not animals or @ChasenSFO
 
Screaming_Emu said:
I reread that a few times before I fully grasped that you were talking about a basketball team and not animals or @ChasenSFO
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I'd rather be a Sun Bear.

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They're what women want.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
I reread that a few times before I fully grasped that you were talking about a basketball team and not animals or @ChasenSFO
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@ChasenSFO is certainly a Bohemian Bear, but admittedly, when I picked up the charter I had to Google who in the world they were and what they played.

Admittedly, a few days later I was doing another NBA charter, sitting the ramp in CLT and while they were walking up the airstairs from the bus said, "That guy looks like the guy from 'Trainwreck'" and my copilot was mortified that I didn't know who it was without being told.
 
Derg said:
That's a nice FBO. Sat there for a few hours waiting for the Grizzlies to show up. Golden Tee machine in the break room and it was more fun watching the corporate guys contort when I turned the TV off Fox and put on The Kardashians.
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How could they possibly have noticed you changed channels??
 
mshunter said:
Yes, but visibility is controlling. So now was this 91, or something else (135/121 needs vis to start the approach)? And how would he justify landing out of an approach that was reporting 1/4 mile when 1 mile is required?

If the vis is below, for me at least, the requirement listed in the approach, I'm going to bail to an alternate unless there is exceedingly rare circumstances. And I just can't see how a King Air couldn't make the climb gradient. Something is amiss here.
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Well, personally if it is legal, and I have nothing better to do with the gas (ie. plenty of it to make it to a good divert/alternate), and it is a small field with an ASOS (ie no tower/approach/human observer) I might give the approach a try. I cannot count the number of times the ASOS/AWOS has had 1/4sm when the field was actually 1sm or the other way around. If the FAA happens to want to question my decision making I will back up my decision with the point at which I saw the "runway environment" and use that to verify that I had the required in flight vis.

That said, I will be primed to go around and already have ATC prepped that for my alternate request. I shot an approach into Marysville, CA one night. ASOS was reporting OVC at 1000', I went around at 200' and couldn't see anything. Turns out the fog rolled in that quickly. I trust rural ASOS's about as much as I trust a Cirrus Private Pilot. They could be good, or they could suck...only one way to find out.
 
Poplar Bluff Municipal airport. Kind of ironic this happened at an airport named after trees.
 
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