Low Ceiling

I was grounded both Saturday and Sunday because of weather. What was especially frustrating was that the clouds were only a couple hundred feet below minimums. At Pearson Airfield, the clouds can’t be any lower than 1500 feet for VFR flight. On Saturday, they were at 1200 feet and on Sunday, 1000 feet. To make it worse, we’ve had great weather yesterday and today.

I did some groundwork with my instructor and then went out to a plane to do some chair flying. I practiced stall recovery procedures as well as memorized the various V speeds and their location on the airspeed indicator. It was time well spent, but I’d much rather have gone up and did it for real.