For years, pilots have had to fight the weather, sometimes getting weathered in on the way to the Gathering or going back home. Often, this means having to stay extra nights in hotels and paying hangar fees to keep their prize possession out of the weather. Sometimes it even means losing your KR and sustaining moderate to severe injury.
I have brought this subject up many times after Gatherings that were plagued with bad weather. I checked with one of our most respected meteorologists to see if there was a time of the year when the country had the greatest chance for good weather across the country. He said October. We continue to have the Gathering in September, one of the worst times of year for expecting good weather. I am submitting again, that we consider changing the time of the gathering to the middle of that month. I am suggesting October 18th and 19th for next year's Gathering in hopes that we can get more planes safely to and from the event. I don't know any KR pilots and KR planes that are IFR rated, so if you want planes at the Gathering you must have decent weather across the widest area of the country as possible. So if you want planes at the Gathering, I strongly suggest you try to do something different as doing the same does not seem to be working to the betterment of getting KRs to the event. See N64KR at <http://krbuilder.org/> http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on the pics See you at the 2013 - KR Gathering in Mt. Vernon, Il - MVN Bad Weather at Gathering time, is a killer or a real bummer. Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC
