Isn't he the CEO for Detroit?

 

Would that mean he's "Imported from Detroit", or is that only Chrysler's?

 

Would I need to know baseball or cars to answer that?

 

First cross country check flight completed in the Queen today, Concord Regional to the Gastonia Municipal Airport and back, no squawks with the aircraft.

I did hit an unusually rough pocket of air over Stanley NC, dropped 300 feet in a short enough time to have my charts float up and levitate just below the cabin ceiling, can you say "Negative G"?

 

low level shear?

 

That's what I think, dropped me from 4,000 feet to 3,700 feet like an express elevator. It didn't come anywhere close to the Negative G limits of the aircraft, but I reported the occurrence to the met offices at both fields.

We'll be checking the Queen's wings for any signs of ripples before the next flight as a precaution, because that's what good pilots do right?

 

What's worse a shear of a micro burst on approach?

 

In my opinion both are bad, but the bigger threat in "Hull Loss Incidents"(Crashes to the general public), would be a Micro Burst.

Being that balloons are usually flown in pretty benign conditions, have you ever had the bottom drop out on you?

 

Not a drop.... but don'tcha know getting into a thermal is no fun? (Can't vent to cool the envelope to drop out of it, because once you are out you drop like a stone until you reheat the envelope to equilibrium... you have to ride it out and up until you're clear of it.)

 

I can imagine it does get your "Spidey Senses" tingling, how do your passengers take it?