Delta Connection Academy

Weather

Yesterday I had a review flight with my instructor, Travis Ponder. After he flew with me, he had a flight with my classmate, Martin Cantu. I backseated Martin’s flight and as we left Ellington (EFD), storm clouds were approaching the field. We headed south to practice engine failures and stalls. When it was time to head back to EFD, it was socked in. There was no way we could return at that time. Martin completed a few traffic patterns at Galveston and we ended up landing and spending some time there at the FBO. Jeffery Horn made us feel very welcome & comfortable – even sharing his stash of snacks and bottled water with us. During our 30 minutes or so we kept in contact with our base and tracked the weather on the computer & on local news. When there was a window of opportunity, we decided to try to make it back. The first cell was out of our way but another was approaching the field quickly. Travis kept reminding us that if it got too bad we would return to Galveston. There was a storm to our west and we could see distant lightning the whole way back, but we made it back to EFD safely.