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I was looking for clues to see if wind was a factor. I see some smoke in the distance, but it...dissipated from the area. I'm not sure if you can determine wind speed by just looking at dust dissipation, but wind speed is for sure present. Al...- ...ew over the aerodrome with the lake in the background. I dare say you would not have been making much headway in 50 kts of wind at 2000', although the down wind leg of the circuit would have...
- Thanks Chris. This was the mandatory "glam" shot for the photographer. Love the dry lakes for test flights. Also great for high wind landings. Never a cross wind to worry about, no mechanical turbulence, extra long, the list of pros goes on and on.
- With only 8 hours of flying, Lawrie is flying x-wind circuits in a 25kt NE wind. He is landing on the centre line. Lawrie hasn't soloed yet.
- Be patient. This is just an image - not the actual video. The video will be uploaded soon. Just waiting for the wind to drop (or if you were a Megafauna flier, waiting for the wind to pickup!)
- Thanks Wile E! Yes, if the wind is blowing strong enough off the cliffs there will be rotors....mountains and other structures. You just need to be aware of wind direction and speed. I have flown with winds strong enough to produce rot...
- Ouch! Looks like maybe a downwind launch. When the wind is from behind a hill, it can rotor over the top and blow up into your face, faking you out that the wind is coming in. that woul...
- Yft has a very different approach to crosswind landings in austrailia. It would be cotroversial here in the...i have witnessed it works very well. Ive seen him do it in very strong x wind. He aproaches diagonaly into...
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...rified I was just referring to headwind component - our airspee...the component representing our headwind was 30 flying that direction....kes a while to figure out the true wind direction (a few 360s) and ex...neral idea of the direction of the wind and you'll also know how...Comment on "So... despite having done careful fuel planning, have you ever found yourself arriving at your destination with a very uncomfortably low amount of fuel?"
Baffled, Fly a steady360 at constant airspeed, note the max and min speed on your GPS. wind speed = (max-min)/2 trike speed through the air = (max + min)/2 While you do the turn, note the heading where the GPS speed was lowest, that's the wind direction.