Thursday, August 17, 2023

Inclement Beauty

DateAircraftRoute of FlightTime (hrs)Total (hrs)
17 Aug 2023N21481SDC (Sodus, NY) - DSV (Dansville, NY) - SDC1.52705.3

In recent years, a popular after-work activity for the Williamson Flying Club is a brief flight south to Dansville Municipal Airport in Dansville, NY for ice cream from Ice Cream Island. We had five airplanes make the trip on August 17. Bob C, another club member, flew right seat with me for the first time. It is a rare event when ice cream is not the focus of this kind of flight. Instead, a series of isolated rainstorms took center stage. Easily circumnavigated, the cells painted the sky with amazing beauty. 


Small cells were moving northbound toward Sodus as we prepared the airplanes for flight. We waited out a light rain shower as one passed, witnessing this double rainbow from my hangar.


In the air, another cell was advancing steadily on Sodus, but we maintained our distance on the way to Dansville.







FlightAware flight track with the weather shown as it existed roughly midway through the flight.


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