I made it back also. I thought I was going to have to stay until tomorrow, but finally things got VFR enough for me to give it a try, and I managed to pick my way around (and through) various rain showers and low ceilings to make it home...just before a very large thunderstorm arrived. I can now tell you that I throttle back to to about 2400 rpm during moderate rain, which still moves me along at about 120 mph. My plane is now washed, which folks at the Gathering would agree it needed badly.
Jeff Lange won't get out until tomorrow, as well as Tommy Waymack. Joe Horton took an airliner back home, realizing that the weather was slowly moving north and east, and would make him several days late for work. Several of us had some pretty good conversations waiting for the weather to break, so it wasn't a wasted day. It was another good Gathering. By the way, the vote for next year's Gathering is to be at I39, with Dan Overall hosting it, so Larry finally gets a well-deserved break. See http://www.airnav.com/airport/I39 for details of the airport and location in central Kentucky. More to come on that later. Mark Langford N56ML "at" hiwaay.net website at http://www.N56ML.com --------------------------------------------------------
