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Old 30th December 2012 | 21:33
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Gertrude the Wombat
 
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keep the speed up when it's bumpy
Some of us on the other hand reduce speed when it's bumpy in order that it feel less bumpy.

IMC lesson. We fly into a cloud. It gets rather bumpy. After a while:

Instructor: "It's a bit bumpy in here, isn't it."

Me: "Yes".

Instructor: "Are you actually happy and comfortable with it being this bumpy?"

Me: "Well, I'm not frightened, but it's hardly comfortable."

Instructor: "So what are you going to do about it then?"

Pause.

Me: "Slow down a bit?"

After I had slowed down (and this is where the maths comes in) he reminds me of some stuff I'd probably read years earlier about the bumpiness going as the square of the speed.
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