Please join me in congratulating the newest Private Pilot in the world today, one U.S. Private Pilot Doug B., who earned his wings in Cessna 1ES with DPE Ken Earl! What a great day for it too!
Way to go, Doug!
Did I say nice weather? ha ha ha. Rain is coming! Apparently there are 4 separate storms converging on Corona, preparing to dump buckets of water on us.
A series of storms will bring periods of locally heavy rain and
strong winds next week with snow at the higher elevations.
The first storm will arrive Monday and bring rain... possibly heavy
by Monday evening. The snow level will be high Monday... around 7000
feet... so snow will be restricted to resort levels. Strong gusty
winds will occur late Monday into Monday night. Subsequent storms
will impact the area Tuesday through Friday and bring more
rain... heavy at times.
This all week long event has the potential to generate rainfall of 5
to 8 inches near the coast... and 15 to locally 25 inches on the
coastal mountain slopes. Even the desert locations are likely to
receive between 2 and 4 inches of rain.
The word is that the upgrades to Prado dam are complete, and we will be able to avoid flooding the airport. That'd be neat. If not, we will be prepared to reposition aircraft to Chino or Riverside. If you are available as a ferry pilot for a short rainy mission, please get in touch with me or the office. We may need some short notice soggy flying. :)
Cessna 17J is back at Toms Aircraft in Long Beach. They are still stumped. They are better at selling G1000s than fixing them apparently. :)
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That's all I know for the moment. It's been quiet around the ranch otherwise.
Blue Skies,
- Mike
