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Old 02-23-2004 | 11:38 AM
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Default RE: When to fly and when not to fly...

Always leave sufficient fuel for at least 2 or 3 landing approaches when there's gusts.
Excellent advice! Excellent advice that I should follow, I might add. See, between the weather and my free time, the only flying I've done lately has been with a slow stick and a tigermoth on floats in the pasture at my parents house. It's a small hilldeide field surrounded by tall trees, which generate lots of turbulence. Somehow, I cannot resist the temptation to fly the battery pack right down to the cutoff, which means, if I cut the throttle and reset, I may be able to make one go-around, or I may be forced to fly at myself and snatch the plane from the air--something you don't want to try with an avistar!