Leg 13: Knoxville-Downtown (Knoxville TN) to Hickory-Regional (Hickory, NC)
Rain and wind again, but I got some glimpses of the scenery on the way - 122 nm 1:05:00 enroute.
Departing Knoxville-Downtown, passing over University of Tennessee and a view of the tricky Runway 26 approach over the river:
NEXRAD shows scattered precip enroute, at least it doesn’t look like we’ll be dodging some serious thundercells:
Double-rainbow over Douglas Lake:
Declared pop-up IFR and climbed to get out of the low scud:
Completely obscured views of the Cherokee National Forest’s rugged terrain - we can only appreciate it through Synthetic Vision:
Double rainbows again south of Lenoir - I should have bought a lotto ticket!
Fairly obscured on the approach, but cleared out just before the threshold - log another one:
