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go through 1,000 feet and lose sight of the sun above us. At 500 to go, we are surrounded by a curtain of light gray. At 400, 300, 200 and 100 feet to go, the gray just gets darker and even the nose of the airplane just four feet away gets hard to see. I think, this is not looking too good... it is probably going to be an ‘apple pie’ type of morning.
Leaving 100 feet, I start calling out altitude-to-go in 20-foot increments, “80, 60, 40, 20”... At ‘20’ I can see Jeff’s thumb on the left throttle move over the go-around button...I was looking for that and it clearly confirms we are thinking the same thing. Then, just as I get ready to say ‘minimums, no contact’, a strobe light pops into view at 12:30. I change my words to ‘strobes in sight’, and then see the first 300 feet or so of the runway come into view with a big 13 written on it. Jeff looks up, clicks off the autopilot and five seconds later we land at a very wet, cold and foggy airport.
No a•pple pie and warm sunny picnic benches today. We almost missed. T&T
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JANUARY 2015