Flying with the big weather picture

摘要

My prediction didn't quite come true. With a newly installed Garmin GDL 69 weather datalink receiver in my airplane, I was convinced that the trip to EAA AirVenture this year would be weather free. A benign trip to and from the big show in Oshkosh would be a first. Never in more than 15 such trips has that 575-nautical mile journey in late July not provided challenging weather in at least one direction.