Well it's another cold day. It's like 15 degrees out. We'd have some serious tundra conditions if there was no atmospheric moisture or snow on the ground. We do have more of a polar ice land. It's pretty sweet. I like it. Watch out, I'm about to break out into some literature...
The weather has always had a tight grip on my attention. The boring weather doesn't affect me as much. The beautiful days; cloudless skies, slight breeze with a high of 75, don't entertain me in the way it may satisfy an old lady with nothing much going for her. That type of weather is easy to fly in, easy to get along in. Too easy perhaps.
I like chaotic, often scary, weather. The type of weather such as straight-from-hell thunderstorms that you can see in the distance coming towards you for an hour-just enough time to admire it before bracing for impact. I like wind faster than trains. I like snow to bury my hindrances away. And if we lived in the appropriate area I assume I'd appreciate sandstorms as well.
Chaotic weather takes your mind off the usual crap of the day, offering an escape per se. An escape that will lead you away from your worries and allows exposition to natures true fury. It offers an escape to not only observe, but to play. Although there's obviously inherent danger with playing around in a thunderstorm, I can think of no better treat to blow off some steam towards the end of a day all too similar to the rest.
Of course you'll never catch my flying through a thunderstorm, or any other weather I know I can't handle, but don't be surprised if I'm in the air for a gusty October afternoon, battling twenty knot gusts. Don't be surprised if (in some years) you see me flying into a CATIII airport with a 500ft ceiling, and no autoland. I don't intend to put myself nor my passengers into any unsafe operations, but I enjoy to brave a challenge. It's just another way to escape from the boring regularities of every other day, and into more entertaining skies.
If not chaotic, I prefer weather that is more difficult to explain. The complex reason I appreciate it so traces back to my love for travel. Weather that can reflect a place is perhaps the more beautiful then any sunrise over the Gulf Coast.
Imagine a waterfall, surrounded by dense jungle upon a mountainside in Central America....
Bell's about to ring. I'll continue this tomorrow. Btdubs i'm giving blood today. awesome.....
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