Pie and Coffee

The town of La Ronge is 19,000 below, although covered in cloud, our little GPS is pointing it out for us. It's 5 in the afternoon and we've been in the air for 50 minutes now, having departed McArthur River this afternoon. We have spent the last three days touring the North for our customer and now our south bound for Regina for the evening. Regina is 287 miles off our nose and with a ground speed of 210 knots we've got another hour and 20 minutes to go.

Things are starting to get interesting as there is a line of thunder storms approach Regina from the west and they are estimating to be there at about the same time as us. Also the La Ronge Radar is down so we're flying in uncontrolled airspace that usually Winnipeg Centre is controlling. The only affect this has on our flight is restrictions on our altitudes and some times out tracks so that Winnipeg can give the proper seperation to all the aircraft flying around here right now. We had been restricted to 17'000 feet for the first 30 minutes of our flight but are now at our flight planned altitude.

We've got an okay amount of extra fuel on board which makes you feel better inside when approaching adverse weather. SIGMETS (significant weather reports) are being read over the radio by Edmonton Centre to help all the pilots best travel around the weather. We hurridily scribble these down and make the decision of where to fly through this beast of a storm. I keep on looking at the Weather Radar and say a little prayer.

But not all is bad, I have some cherry pie (from our last destination) that I'm just pulling out of it's wrapper while filling up a cup of old coffee, just have to finish it before we hit the storm.