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Alton Bay's "Excellent Water"

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Thaws, rain, snow, and strong crosswinds can temporarily close the airport. Within a a few minutes of going IFR, we emerged into clear air on the other side of the lake effect snow band and made for Sodus where I flew a practice RNAV-28 instrument approach with the autopilot. Warm spells can mean doom for this frozen Brigadoon.

Runway 68