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Editor's Column

tex2html_wrap131 Monsoons and Lightning

With the spectacular lightning that accompanies southern Arizona's monsoon storms this time of year, a few obvious words of safety are in order. Monsoons can build very rapidly - the distant lightning strikes that you hear in the darkening skies when you start your engine can be threateningly close before your flight's even over! Watch the weather carefully, and land before conditions get hazardous. Your plane is not a very prominent lightning target, but you, standing by an exposed runway with a nice metal antenna extended upwards... you are a different story. ``Big iron'' avoids thunderbumpers, and so should you! So be careful out there, especially if you're the first or last one on the field that day.

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Craig Kulesa
Fri Dec 1 16:50:01 MST 2000