By Rick Durden

In the movie Good Morning, Vietnam, we saw disc jockey Robin Williams deal with an incompetent CO who required him to give the morning weather report in a season and location where the weather was invariant. His solution was shouting into the mic, “It’s hot! D%$#ed hot!” Obviously, the screenplay’s authors knew they were writing for pilots.

Summertime is when we do most of our flying; the days are longer and getting the airplane ready to fly doesn’t involve digging it out of a snowdrift. Yet, when we look at reality, we have to admit that a bunch of that easy flying involves sweating in the heat-soaked confines of…