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Today’s flight

Weather was skosh while driving in, but we briefed anyway in anticipation of the clouds lifting later in the afternoon.  After briefing I saw a lot of red CNX WX up on the ops board and my studs were giving me a bit of pressure to cancel.  I had a feeling that we just needed to give the weather a bit more time, so I said we'd sit for a while and see how the cloud decks turned out.  Sure enough, in an hour and a half we had enough sky to go flying for a couple of BI flights.

I was a bit nervous, as this was my first flight with students and I was the first guy from my squadron to launch and go fly BIs, which have a different set of weather requirements than all our other flights.  After going through checklists that seemed to take twice as long as usual we got out to the working area - weather was juuuuust good enough to complete all our maneuvers.  Not bad for a first flight. To top it off, the lineman gave us a ride back to the hangar!