At least we are using our time wisely and getting caught up on our blog.
During our wait, we borrowed the courtesy car and had a delicious lunch at Mama's Italian Restaurant. So the theme of the restaurants we've visited is that they don't have items that our taste buds want. We checked the website and found a grouper item that sounded delicious. We got to the restaurant and no grouper was on the menu. However, our second choice - shrimp scampi - was delicious.
After hours of watching weather radar and planning routes east or south or in between and consulting our weather guru, Terry Carbonell, we launched at 5:00 pm with aspirations to get to KFMY. We chose the west coast of Florida and stopped at KBKV (Brooksville) to check the weather for the 1000th time. At that time, Page Field was VFR. We filed IFR and took off again. Weather can change quickly and boy did it!!! Page Field when seriously IFR and the clouds ahead of us were ferocious. We did not like the looks of the clouds over Page Field. We saw that Sarasota and Punta Gorda were VFR. We had several outs if we needed to change the destination. At the perfect time, weather cleared enough for us to land. Ten minutes earlier or ten minutes later and the story would have been different. As soon as we landed at Page Field (KFMY) and found a parking space the heavens opened with a downpour and lightning in the distance. Another 99, Ellen Herr, came to our rescue, took us to eat, and gave us a place to sleep. We surely slept soundly after that flight.
Perry Foley, FL (40J)
Cute Statue at 40J
Approaching KFMY (Page Field, FL)
I remember quite a scary weather adventure I had when I was working on my private licence decades ago! Trying to cross the Everglades late in the day can be tricky. I'm glad you are succumbing to gst-there-itis like I did🙄
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