Icing in a Sling

You described yourself as a relatively newly minted IFR pilot, and the flight we're going to speak of was one of your first in true IFR.

Is that the case?

Absolutely.

I had gotten my ticket just a few weeks earlier, and then this trip took place on April 13th, and it was going to be my first experience flying by myself in instrument condition.

Okay.

Well, let's talk about the flight.

What happened?

I was planning a trip from New Bedford.

I keep the plane in New Bedford in the wintertime, so it's in a hangar.

I live a little bit closer to Newport.

Kilo, uniform, uniform, uniform.

So I keep it there in the summertime outside, tied down.

But this trip was going to be from New Bedford, and we were heading out to Sandusky, Michigan.

I was going out for one of my 100-hour inspections.

So this flight, I needed to get out on a Sunday.

There was a little bit of get-there-itis that you're going to hear and hear.

I was trying to keep myself from being motivated by that.

I certainly didn't have to be there on that day, but that's how the planning worked.

So the plan was to leave on Sunday to get out to Michigan, out to Sandusky.

I would be flying to BGM, Bravo Golf Mike, to get fuel on the way out because there was a headwind and then would move on from there.

Let me just ask you, what's the identifier for Sandusky? I'll just pull it up in ForeFlight.

Yankee 83.

Yankee 83.

Got it.

Okay.