Aviation weather for Appleton International airport (USA) is “KATW 141345Z 02008KT 10SM SCT120 11/05 A3041” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/katw/en #appleton #usa #appletoninternationalairport #katw #atw #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek #airport vl

Aviation weather for Appleton International airport (USA) is “KATW 051345Z 08005KT 5SM FU CLR 22/18 A3029” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/katw/en #appleton #usa #appletoninternationalairport #katw #atw #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek #airport vl

A successful journey! My kid was thrilled to get to hang out in fire trucks. I had to take off into clouds and then most of the trip down there I was above the cloud layer. There was a VFR aircraft trying to scud run below me somewhere and knowing the terrain in that area I'm not sure that was a good idea with most fields being IFR. Looking at their ground track now, they were flying down a river.

Anyway, I did the RNAV LNAV 29 into KPDC, which got us just under the clouds. Big hill off the right side when you come out of the clouds (which is a little intimidating). We had a bit of a crowd watching us land and taxi in since only two aircraft flew in.

The way back was more exciting with storm buildups and having a long stretch in the middle with no radio contact (I think Madison approach has a bad transmitter). I was told by Chicago that they can hear me just fine so I pretty much just advised them what I was doing until I got far enough to contact Milwaukee. Then it was time to dodge buildups because I don't want to fly through storms. Easy as requesting 30 degrees left deviation. Landing at KATW was an uneventful visual approach.

Great day, but now it is hot and humid and I don't like that.

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