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Due to Murphy, we stayed overnight in Duluth and departed Saturday morning. Rob snapped some photographs as we took off from DLH...
Photo by Rob.
Photo by Rob.
Photo by Rob.
In the air, with the weather worse than forecast, we amended our plan and landed at Dubuqe (DBQ) via a fully-coupled ILS 36 with a 400' overcast and about 6 mi visibility.
We were very well treated at the very modern and clean FBO. They loaned us a car and we went for "fast food."
In turn we bought avgas, filling the tanks.
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On return to the FBO we used their weather computer and agonized over the continuing bad weather between us and home... At least the bad weather had moved eastward while we were off getting food.
Good sense prevailed and we planned a simple leg that would just "poke" at the back side of the wall of storms. Our filed route was KDBQ V158 PLL V158 SHOOF D JOT V8 CGT V8 GSH KGSH.
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The plan worked. We arrived at Goshen after the wall of storms had departed to the east.
I got to do another fully-coupled approach, an ILS 27 with 800 and 2.
On checking the weather radar at the FBO, we saw that the wall of storms was not clearing and was way too intense to penetrate.
So we made arrangements to spend the night in Goshen.
Once again the FBO was modern and clean and the folks there were super. They parked my brand new plane in their maintenance hangar to protect it from the weather (and to keep the two hangar-cats company), loaned us a car, and gave us recommendations for accommodations and food.
We again filed an IFR flight plan using... KGSH V92 VWV D SAROW D KCGF.
Our routing was changed a bit in the air giving us a more direct route (but with less over-water than shown in the map below).
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