This was by far the most technically challenging flight leg I have ever flown.

Allan and I were stuck overnight in New Orleans during French Quarter Weekend. We made the best of it and then woke up early in the a.m. to check flight weather and check our feelings about this leg.

The main problem was a huge storm over Texas, pretty much running north to south, with severe thunderstorm activity along with hale and possible tornadoes. No big deal…NOT!

I took 3 weather briefings and decided we could out run the storm by flying south to Corpus Christi by hugging the coast a little off into the gulf. I then had Allan receive his own briefing to double check me.

We had plenty of fuel so we knew we could if necessary turn around or fly into Mexico as a last resort.

I’ve included the photo shots of our MFD of the storm we were flying through. If you look closely you can see our magenta line course and a little representation of Miss Behaving’ heading east into the Gulf of Mexico to avoid the lighting and cumulnimbus clouds.

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Skirting storm in the Gulf of Mexico

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Getting around the last of the storm to Corpus Chrisi, TX