(May 2011) SEVERAL YEARS AGO I WAS flying with the family back to Westchester County Airport (KHPN) from Syracuse, New York, where we’d spent the Thanksgiving holiday with family. The forecast wasn’t great, but it was easy IFR, if indeed there is such a thing. White Plains was forecast to be 800 feet and 1½ miles, with VFR weather within easy reach.
Going Direct: Personal Minimums
Runway 24 at BDR in a Trinidad, ice on the
wings and a crosswind howling. None of it
was forecast.** Flying
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