TSHEMMEN
New member
Prescott, AZ (110 miles NW of Phoenix)
- Aircraft Year
- 1976
- Aircraft Type
- 112 Hot Shot
- Reg Number
- N1476J
- Serial Number
- 476
Wanted to share my recent trip from Prescott Arizona to Houston Texas. This is kinda like an annual trip as Houston has a huge international quilt festival at their convention center with 800 vendors. (you thought Oshkosh was big) and no, I am not a quilter but the wife is. Flying there, we met a huge wall of clouds near El Paso Texas...could really not see the ground due to shadows and the way to get by was either fly into Mexico..or try to climb over. So, since I have the "hot shot" I thought, lets see how high it would go...got cleared by ATC to go as high as I wanted...and started the climb...I went to 19,500 to get over the clouds..at that altitude, the plane was still climbing 200-300 ' per minute....crazy...flew for about 40 miles at that altitude before able to start down again in VFR conditions....there was a cloud layer about 8000'...so looked for a whole to get through and finally found one to get fuel at Eldorado price was $3.40..rest of trip to Lone Star Excutive (CXO) non eventful..Nice place not much traffic and an excellent FBO called Galaxy. Kept the bird in their hanger for $30 per night. While in Houston, went to Galveston to check out the largest 4 day motorcycle rally in the country. We looked like lemons in an orange grove, but had fun. Wanted to leave on Sat, but no go as a huge front from Mexico up to Nebraska kept up and many others on the ground as thunderstorms to $40k'..Finally got out Monday and near Austin the big boys were having fun getting around the build ups with a ceiling of 400'. Further west we flew, it got better until we fueled up at Ft Stockson were ceilings were unlimited. Great flight back to Prescott from there with a tailwind averaging 150 kt ground speed.
