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- cessna170bdriver
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Good VFR, but NOT a good flying day! (and getting worse!)
KMHV 121547Z 28050G60KT 40SM FEW070 05/ A2974 RMK BLDU N
Miles
KMHV 121547Z 28050G60KT 40SM FEW070 05/ A2974 RMK BLDU N
Miles
- cessna170bdriver
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You mean cross-RUNWAY landing practice on 22, don't you? Even on the best runway (26 or 30, take your pick depending on whether you want to deal with it from the right or left) the crosswind component is 17-20 knots. Of course, you could land diagonally... but then what? With 50 knots, you couldn't let the tail down.lowNslow wrote:Ahhhh, just a spring zephyr, good day for some xwind landing pratice on runway 22.
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Yea - it's been windy. I finally talked my wife into flying down to San Diego (CRQ) to visit our son and her mother (life has its pluses and minuses). So, of course on the way home it is blowing like hell. Monday the 9th, coming back, my groundspeed across L.A was 69 Knts. We got our teeth rattled crossing Lancaster/Palmdale - up and down drafts of 1000 fpm - moderate turbulence all the way home. I have to hand it to her - she hung in there all the way back. I think the worst experience of the whole trip was paying $5.70 per gallon for fuel at BFL. I am still impressed with the 170 - even in the strong gusty winds landings were manageable - you have to fly it - but, no bugeyman .
- cessna170bdriver
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Should have stopped in Tehachapi, $3.26/gallon. Also, you could have saved over 3500 feet of descending and climbing back to altitude. Yeah, it's windy here but almost always down the runway. Next time you're in the area, tune in 120.025 for our (so far) unpublished AWOS.Robert Eilers wrote:... I think the worst experience of the whole trip was paying $5.70 per gallon for fuel at BFL.
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- Romeo Tango
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RMK
I hadn't seen that remark before:
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Is that "blown down" - as in the equipment was knocked over ?-)
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Is that "blown down" - as in the equipment was knocked over ?-)
- Kyle Wolfe
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- cessna170bdriver
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Re: RMK
That is BLowing DUst to the North. The wind kicks up dust and sand off the desert, and the viz can get pretty low, not to mention damage to paint and glass. The lab let us go home early, and just after I got through, the Highway Patrol closed Highway 58 around the north side of Mojave due to low visibility and high winds. They claim to have measuered gusts in the 100mph range. The pass from Tehachapi is pretty narrow and makes a good venturi opening out onto the desert just north of Mojave. http://skyvector.com/#20-24-3-3005-1392Romeo Tango wrote:I hadn't seen that remark before:
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Is that "blown down" - as in the equipment was knocked over ?-)
When I got home yesterday, we'd had a dusting of snow, too. Even though Mojave and the rest of the desert had 40 mi visibility, the cause of the wind was a fast moving storm with some high clouds with a bit of moisture the mountains managed to wring out. It's pretty nice today, but tomorrow, it looks like we're going to get a bit of a repeat performance of yesterday, incuding a bit more snow.Kyle Wolfe wrote:Hey Miles, what's a little wind?
I shoveled snow from the front of the hanger door today! Will have to go to Petit Jean just to get warm this year. ?-)
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- Kyle Wolfe
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- cessna170bdriver
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This is an excerpt from this week's newsletter from the Flight Test Center Commander:
Men and Women of the Air Force Flight Test Center--
So how'd you like those winds last week? Man oh man, it was soooooo windy….
("How windy was it?!")
Thought you'd never ask!
It was so windy the T-38s were having to use Air Carts to STOP the engines….
It was so windy, one Desert Tortoise laid the same egg four times….
It was so windy, the only things flying were a few of the Tehachapi Pass windmills….
It was so windy, kids were attaching bricks to fishing line and using them as kites…using bicycle chains for tails….
Men and Women of the Air Force Flight Test Center--
So how'd you like those winds last week? Man oh man, it was soooooo windy….
("How windy was it?!")
Thought you'd never ask!
It was so windy the T-38s were having to use Air Carts to STOP the engines….
It was so windy, one Desert Tortoise laid the same egg four times….
It was so windy, the only things flying were a few of the Tehachapi Pass windmills….
It was so windy, kids were attaching bricks to fishing line and using them as kites…using bicycle chains for tails….