jungle

Numerous small bird strikes, two fatal deer strikes, small hail, cyclones and hurricanes, a few lightning strikes, lead rain falling upwards with a tracer element(but not too close).
The nicer visuals included flying around active volcanos at night and seeing the glow of lava, lots of St. Elmo's, a night time rocket launch that arced overhead on the way to orbit, heavy aurora that looked as though it was folding around you(even though it was at least a hundred miles away) lots of meteors, flying over very active lines of t-storms and watching the sparks fly, and always the clouds, sun, moon, stars and planets.

Kilgore Trout

I'm starting to realize why most of my pilot reports go into a sort of weird netherworld at the local flight service station. I apologize for misreading the thread's title and intentions.

A beaver and a duck aren't really "flight conditions" I guess.

Sorry about that unsolicited many years old umm, err, "incident" report during the Angoon flight report involving near duck induced decapitation.

If you need any flight conditions on the very low level stuff around Yakutat let me know. I'll be on 122.9.

lakehouse

this one is lame, but flying jumpers a few months ago, smooth air all day long, coming through like 9k in a 182, hit a spot of dead air or something, but it felt like the wings had literally let go of the plane, it was so bad the plane dropped like 400 feet to the point the engine sputtered from loss of gravity on the fuel pull, def was a pucker for all on the plane, weirdest i have seen, best part we where over a huge field area, didnt cross any roads, buildings or even a change in ground color, even asked tracon if anyone was near us, def was really weird

Airhoss

I've seen some pretty spectacular lighting shows over the Amazon Basin. I've seen some equally as awesome right here in the Midwestern US. I got watch a (Polaris?) missile launch from a sub one night way east and south of the tip of Florida. That was awesome ATC called us and let us know that we were getting ready to see a sub launched missile off to the east. A spot on the sea lit up and then we watched the thing climb for a short while level off and disappear in a flash of rocket exhaust to the east. But the strangest thing I've ever seen was in January off the coast of South Eastern AK.

We were in the mid 30's with an under cast below. Without warning the whole under cast as far as we could see lit up in a green flash then faded to dark. shortly after we started seeing electrical balls of green light appearing and disappearing below us above us all around us. Some other aircraft in the vicinity were seeing the same thing and talking about it on air to air. These rotating balls of electrical light continued for about 3 minutes and then faded away.

My first thought was static discharge from volcanic ash but there was no activity in the area. All I can figure since there was no convective activity was that this must have been some kind of electrical discharge due to static electricity from some kind of particulate matter in the air in that vicinity.

I've never found a good solid answer but it sure was interesting. Imagine rotating balls of Aurora Borealis it shimmered and quivered like it but it was very localized and at low altitude.

jrutt

just more ****ty weather in southeast

Twin Wasp

Up 4 or 5000 AGL in a glider with a Brit in the front, ran through a cloud of corn tassels in a thermal. He couldn't believe what we were flying through.