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• • madmik@mike.lawson543

  

  madmik 3632 days ago

  Pure, raw/roaring energy.

• • Jozinko@Sajan

  

  Jozinko 3632 days ago

  Scary....

• • TrikeBoyWonder@TrikeBoyWonder

  

  TrikeBoyWonder 3632 days ago

  My God, that was an awesome video!   Stuff like this $#!t keeps this trike pilot humble AND conservative making my ADM's. 

• • white eagle@wambleska

  

  white eagle 3631 days ago

  yes great video of a super cell ken     pilots need to be aware of just how dangerous these cells are.   the cloud suck can draw you in from great distance . updrafts can carry you up to 60 thousand feet spit you out frozen. and gust fronts from when they collapse 50 miles away.a fellow hang glider pilot friend of mine was sucked up in one like this back in the 80s. they found him 8 hours later in a cottonwood tree he had a coating of ice  and his hang glider that was brought back to Electra flyer had the sails ripped to ribbons and lightning scorch marks on the flying wires. that cell developed very quickly . Chris horn who was trailing him was able to spiral dive free of the cloud suck but witnessed his friend being sucked up. i think the protocol for a trike would be to avoid it like the plague.in a hang glider your first choice is to try and spin out of it and if that failed cut your hang strap and free fall away and use your chute.So that brings up the question what would you do if you found yourself in severe cloud suck in a trike and you couldn't spiral out of it. maybe try and break the wing and deploy your  brs when your well out of the suck.    any reasonable thoughts on this?    my choice anvil head super cell   don't even leave Terra fir ma.

   

• • XC Triker@XCTriker

  

  XC Triker 3627 days ago

  Weather accidents are the most deadly!!  Mother nature does not forgive when she turns.  Wow, great video to post for us Ken-- these are the kinds of things if you come across post them here to share with other trikes for us to learn!!  Check THIS out !  

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  That's his parachute next to him, the kingpost and his harness only !!!!   OMG!!!

   

  Like W.E. says, this and way worse happens.  This was just posted on the Oz Report.  I missed the first part of the story, but this guy was chasing cummies for lift, but found an Anvil Head instead and got sucked up nearly to never never land.  This is all that came out.

  Geez, I'm not sure what I would do W.E.  Outrun upwind if you were a ways away, but if in CloudSuck already, too late.  Then spiral dive.  I don't know what it would take to break the wing and how it would break (would aluminum come slicing toward you?)- it could take 3 to 6 Gs to break (wikipedia says "A typical person can handle about 5 g").  Good reasons to have the BRS in front of you where you can reach it with either/both hands in case you are incapacitated instead of behind your non-dominant shoulder on one side-- if you're reaching for the BRS, it's likely because of catastrophic structural failure-- you are part of the structures ...

   

  Whenever I think about "Cloud Suck" though I think of the worst self professed expert on the dark-side who told us he was caught out by "Cloud Suck!!!" .... never HG a day in his life.  Seems he actually flew into lower and lower cloud cover-- aka, Scud Running--  Nature wasn't out to get him, he was his own worst enemy.  "Ahggg  and then I was in Cloud Suck !!!!!"          No buddy, not even ;)  Watch Ken's video ...  

   

  The cloud in the vid started to spin about 01:00,  I thought it was going to go bigger.  I was very surprised it dissipated what looked like gently, instead of collapsing with a huge gust front!  (noticed the name of the video group was Cloudbase Hunters ... are they glider pilots?)