Yesterday, my instructor told me if the weather sucked I was to skip my lessons until I had my cross country flight plan completed. I woke up today and checked the weather…it was a relatively nice day out with high ceilings and good visibility, but there were some gusty wind reports that gave me pause. We hadn’t talked about exactly what kinds of weather constituted “sucked” so I decided to head to the airport just in case…after all, it was a beautiful, clear day, and maybe these winds weren’t that bad, right?
I should’ve stayed home! I got there and as soon as I got out of my car I knew the drive had been in vain — the winds almost slammed my car door shut on me as I tried to get out! Sure enough, when I went inside my CFI told me we wouldn’t be flying in 35mph gusts, so I turned around and went back home.