Why is the weekend weather always crappy?

Its Friday night, and that means checking the weather for tomorrow to see if Matt and I can do a dual cross-country through to the West Coast.  It doesn't look promising.


But then, NZ weather is fickle and we may get enough of a clearance to get through one of the passes. After all, I don't actually want a clear blue sky and the ability to climb to 10,000 feet, and cruise on over the Alps. I've done that and there's no real challenge, provided the wind is not extreme.


I want weather that makes me work to get there, and forces me to make a lot of decisions. I want to approach one of the passes with a low cloud base and have to make a call. That's the criteria for the Commercial Pilot cross country endorsement, and that's the environment where you learn to make the go / no go decisions.


Anyway, we've exchanged texts, and we'll wait to 7 am to make a decision about taking to the air around 9am, or perhaps delay until the afternoon. If I go, i must remember to get some photos...

CAVOK - say what?

OK, so the view is a bit different to what you get when you're in the aero position on your tri bike. There's still a bit of that going on, but it's time to write about other stuff. I enjoyed the reflective nature of my last blog http://kiwiinkona.blogspot.com, so I've simply re-invented myself, so to speak.

I'm back into my flying with a vengeance, and an aim. It's time to knock off my commercial pilot licence, and the first step is completing the cross-country phase. More on that later.

So, what on earth is CAVOK you ask? Actually, it fits. In the flying world, this is just a weather term for "Cloud and Visibility OK", or in other words, great flying weather. It just seems to be a good fit, and besides, I wasn't imaginative to think of anything else.

But this is only a short entry, just so i could link the old site to something....so that's it for now.