THE SCENARIO: IT'S MAY IS, 2022. YOU'RE PLANNING TO FLY A Cessna 172 from your home in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Winchester, Virginia. You fueled the airplane the previous night for the 220-nau-tical-mile trip because you want to get an early start. You and your wife will be traveling together to visit her family, and she abhors rough air and turbulence. If you can take off around 7 a.m., you'll finish the two-hour flight well in advance of the scattered afternoon thunderstorms that are forecast all along the Appalachians. Light rain and a few thunderstorms have soaked much of North Carolina and Virginia for two days leading up to your trip, but 12 hours before the start of your trip, the forecast predicted VFR conditions throughout the region on your travel day.
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