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Georgia and all concerned (and you all should be...)
Flying where you can't see is Bad News. Clouds have problems:
* They are wet
* They are dark
* They can have rough winds
* They hide big mountains.
Plus the fact that you cannot keep track of which way is up - literally!
Freshwater, and outher unauthorized approaches, will probably increase.
Especially with the GPS units that are becoming more and more previlent.
The problem is loss of orientation when you can't see. The old line is:
"We came out of the clouds and there was the runway. Right above our
heads!"
My worse times did not involve clouds. It was when visibility was
obscured,
but there was no real line of demarcation so I could not tell how far away
the
bad visibility was. I once launched into a fog bank that I thought was
"far
enough" away. No deal. I successfully made a 180 back to the runway I
had just left! I also spent a morning blundering around in the haze over
New
Mexico. Again, not exactly clouds, but I couldn't keep track of both that
pipe line on the ground I was following, and the horizon!
Again, beware.
Percy in Portland
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