Later One of the first things pilots learn is that weather conditions change over time. Sadly, one of the last things they learn is that it's often best to wait for better weather before flying. AVweb's Michael Maya Charles tells why we can't change the weather, but we can sure choose when we do battle with it. Often, this gets us in trouble. We can breakfast in Denver, have lunch at Sedona, then spend the night under ancient skies on a mountaintop in Idaho only by flying our general aviation airplane.
Time is compressed, stretched, even, it seems, created with our magic airplanes.
First, we must have an inviolable personal rule that there IS no flight that MUST be flown. Send the packages FedEx and email her a family photo. The weather on the Front Range of Colorado where I live is truly amazing sometimes. This is a great place for students of meteorology. Fierce, sometimes unpredictable, and often well beyond the capabilities of mere fabric or aluminum, the weather constantly reminds us that Mother Nature is a formidable force.