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Charleston, SC

Gary's Flight Journal

To start our flying day I must stress the most important part of flight planning, ADM, Aeronautical Decision Making. It's now 7am and our planned departure time was 9am arriving just after noon. Departure Day! I called the clearance delivery number on the OXB NOTAM but they gave me another number to call.

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Triple Threat of Limitations

Plane and Pilot

All three sets of limitations will combine to affect the outcome of our flight. We may be the best pilot ever born, but we can’t force a tired Skyhawk to climb above its genuine absolute ceiling, undefined by any performance chart. But the reported ceiling was only 400 feet at the appointed hour.