Today was a beautiful but cold day here in San Diego and sort of between storms, with very clear and clean air and scattered clouds. It was late in the day and I could see clear skies out over the ocean moving inland, but dark clouds above me. As the sun got lower over the ocean, it turned a dramatic red-orange and the sky took on that beautiful silver blue color that I have only seen here in SoCal. As I marveled at the colors, suddenly I had rain on my windshields and dripping off the trailing edges pretty heavily.
Maybe a lot of you have experienced this, but it was a first for me in my open cockpit Duster. The amazing thing to me was that I did not get wet at all, and it was very enjoyable! The smell of the rain was awesome, and the air was as smooth as glass. This is something that one can only experience in an open cockpit.
I guess the other neat thing about flying here on a day like this is that there was almost no one else around. I had the sky to myself, except ironically for another open cockpit Skybolt that I came across on the common traffic frequency north of Ramona. It was Colleen out of Gillespie Field, that I have seen here on the Biplane Forum, but never met in person. It was nice to make a voice connection with another open cockpit airplane in such a cool and lonesome sky...
Maybe a lot of you have experienced this, but it was a first for me in my open cockpit Duster. The amazing thing to me was that I did not get wet at all, and it was very enjoyable! The smell of the rain was awesome, and the air was as smooth as glass. This is something that one can only experience in an open cockpit.
I guess the other neat thing about flying here on a day like this is that there was almost no one else around. I had the sky to myself, except ironically for another open cockpit Skybolt that I came across on the common traffic frequency north of Ramona. It was Colleen out of Gillespie Field, that I have seen here on the Biplane Forum, but never met in person. It was nice to make a voice connection with another open cockpit airplane in such a cool and lonesome sky...
