Boring holes in the clouds

Saturday noon we had an appointment with some folks down in Nashua New Hampshire.

 So at about 11am we pull the Bonanza out of the hangar . . .

 . . .  on to a wet and cold tarmac and after a quick top-of of fuel and de-ice fluid . . .

 . . . we are off and away

Climbing out of Portland

 Scud running on an IFR flight plan .

 Nothing but clouds in the windshield climbing out through thirteen hundred feet for . . .

    . . . . six thousand feet , and it is still gray up there

 The thermometer tells us things are a bit cold up here.

 So we turn on the TKS pump to keep wing and prop clear of ice .

Nothing but soup

After a half hour of this . . .

 . . . we shoot the approach and break out of the clouds at two thousand feet and can see the runway at Nashua

Crossing midfield we enter a down wind approach for RWY 32

 

 and circle to land

 The Flight-Aware track and profile of our flight . NOTE ; The image above is a screen capture from later on Saturday , thus the weather depiction on the image is not our actual flight conditions .

After a couple hours the weather has cleared a bit to the north and east so we make our departure .

 And climb back in to the clouds .

 Shoot a practice approach  . . .

 with one turn in the hold .

 Into Concord NH

 Then execute the missed approach procedure and a hold at the fix . . .

  in the broken afternoon clouds with the TKS de-ice fluid streaming on the windshield

 And shoot a practice approach in to Laconia

 Breaking through the scud , marker beacon inbound to Laconia .

 We come out of the clouds below three thousand feet .

Executing the missed approach  . . .

 . . . we cross over lake Winnipesaukee

 Back into the broken clouds headed east .

 And set up for an approach back home into Portland

 Rigby yard and Cash Corner to our left

 Cape Elizabeth and Higgins beach to our right

 We pass over Phineas Sprague's Spurwink farm runway

 And follow vectors to the ILS 29 in to Portland

 Final tun inbound for the ILS 29

 and in real time

 Way out on the glide slope

the video

 Zooming in a bit on the runway

final marker inbound

 Over South Portland

 Looking across to Portland downtown

 The Portland working waterfront with the Casco Bay bridge

 Short final

 Over Phineas Sprague's new boat yard on Commercial St

 Looking over the right shoulder back at Portland

 St Johns Street and the new hospital building

 Short final and landing

The track and profile of our return trip