TOL Practice

The clouds were just high enough yesterday to allow me to fly in the pattern. The automated weather service at the airport was reporting the sky as "clear", which was obviously not the case. I called the next nearest weather station at Hobby and that one was reporting scattered clouds at 2800 ft, so I decided to go. The bottoms of the clouds at Pearland were way lower than 2800. I realized this as I nervously approached pattern altitude at 1000 ft. I stayed clear, though.

I flew 7 landings, practicing some normal ones, and some shortfield/softfield. It's amazing how short you can stop a Cessna 150 when you want to. I had one scary moment when I forgot to close a window I opend while taxiing back to the end of the runway to do a softfield. I should have just ignored the window until I got stable off the ground. I ended up flying in ground effect off near the edge of the runway with the stall horn still going off, which was not the best thing. Live and learn, literally.