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  • Paraglider dashboard, must have FREE Android cell phone app

    ...re/apps/details?id=com.eb.ohrh.parawind.free&hl=en I downloaded...other apps.  It estimates the wind vector in real time while you...u fly in circle with you drift downwind. And if you plot your velocit...cle in the display, you get a good wind estimate. It displays the da...

  • Trike Shimmying at landing

    ...e second landing was done probably a bit faster, with about 6 mile cross wind. Has anyone who owns a Navaj...d a 215 pound passenger and slightly deflated tire, coupled with a cross wind landing and all of the above...

  • The Signs Were There - when not to fly!

    ...iving when you take it on. The wind at 2000ft was VRB/15.  W...eparture.  Within seconds the wind increased, the wing began mov...ell-tale signature of the rotating winds. So all warmed up an the...g, but baulked due to strong cross wind and went to make my approach...

  • Again Almost!

    ...iday was lovely, sunny, 50 deg, no wind. but saturday was different,...inst the rear wheel of my van. the wind was 10mph so was on the lee s...r my nice yellow t-shirt. THEN the wind really blew, my bod' propped'..., or golf, anything not relying on wind, or lack of!     &n...

  • Brain teasers for those that believe down wind turns are "different".

    If you believe that downwind turns are "different" from upwind turns, or if you think that a...e balloon is in a stiff south wind, and is being blown northward...blue sky.  Now is a downwind turn any "different" than an...ling when you are flying "downwind" (flying toward the north), o...

  • Chuck Norris- Probably THE most famous Trike Pilot

    ...e only person ever to land on runway 37. Hijackers squawk 7500 when Chuck Norris is on board Chuck Norris has never landed with a crosswind. The wind would never dare get cross wi...

  • Teen's high flying dream lands him in Marion: 3 Days & 900 Miles

    ...een before. Rather than a long, flat field to take off from, using a headwind for lift, the field sloped do...ain, two more hours to Grove City, Pa., where things got hairy. The winds picked up to more than 12 kn...

  • Final results for me to Learn to Fly.

    .... ie. 2 hours per day x 14 = 28hrs.  But the weather and mainly the wind is never that kind on the coa...must! And this week is totally out for flying due to ex-cyclone rain and winds.  Best settled time of...

  • Dead Stick Mondays

    ...h down point made.  Then try cutting power on base and then on down wind leg.  Gradually increase...with cutting power with increasingly more challenging conditions, higher winds, more cross wind component,...

  • Threat Error Management Report for Moira Shire Council.

    ...rcraft two seater landing on runway 19 left the runway in a strong cross wind. The aircraft traveled across...er Warrior single pilot on board. The aircraft left runway 01 in a cross wind and traveled across the fligh...