Winds to 75 kts in Vic - ride reports
Winds to 75 kts in Vic - ride reports
Guessing you freight dogs might take a while to settle your nerves after your runs to/from ML/EN tonight. Love to hear some ride reports and how your ships are handling.
Nunc est bibendum
It was nowhere near as rough into MEL at 1130 today as I expected. Sure, you don't expect to see a groundspeed of 88knots on a 767 on final approach and the 70 knot tailwind around the 11DME arc was sporting but the actual approach was relatively benign. 
ATIS was 360/30-40G50 That was pretty much it from 500' down. Above that there were gusts to 75 knots.
Great fun.
ATIS was 360/30-40G50 That was pretty much it from 500' down. Above that there were gusts to 75 knots. Great fun.
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That awkward moment when you could hypothetically land a light plane whilst traveling backwards
Later the instructor said he thought it was too windy to fly but gave the option to the TIF passenger to go flying or leave it to another day. The gung-ho passenger said "let's go now" and the instructor said its your call and off they went.
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And out of interest, why were virtually ALL Virgin flights SY-ML on Wednesday coming down at F240? SIGMETS? Planned at pretty slow TAS as well?
And to the Virgin Pilot that rang in and asked why the Qantas aircraft got to overtake him. You were doing 375-385kts G/S he was doing 430 odd. It's your time at the gate (LIZZY) compared to everyone else's gate time that decides the sequence, not your en-route G/S.
And to the Virgin Pilot that rang in and asked why the Qantas aircraft got to overtake him. You were doing 375-385kts G/S he was doing 430 odd. It's your time at the gate (LIZZY) compared to everyone else's gate time that decides the sequence, not your en-route G/S.
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Pretty sure it was a 172. SRV if I recall correctly. And it was his mate who was the TIF customer.
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Airborne yesterday and we had 70 kts headwind at 3000'. GS 170 kts climbing out in our A330!! FL 380 wind over SWH 300/175..
All quite smooth however....VMC on top.
All quite smooth however....VMC on top.
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Ya never seem to hear/see any Robbo's out in those winds, unless of course they where going southbound on a one way trip!:-)
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The conditions of the last few days was similar to those that brought the AC50 down Nth of ML a few years ago.
Slipping out of EN late one night Nthbound off rwy 35 with a G/S of around 70kts in the old Beech, ML Dep's took me west of my track after seeing I was gunna be a long term pest in the CTZ so as to allow departing A/C from ML to get away sometime before dawn!
As a PVT pilot the winds where always a headwind when you hired a plane, why is that?
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'Nit' that's ugly them thar No's!
The conditions of the last few days was similar to those that brought the AC50 down Nth of ML a few years ago.
Slipping out of EN late one night Nthbound off rwy 35 with a G/S of around 70kts in the old Beech, ML Dep's took me west of my track after seeing I was gunna be a long term pest in the CTZ so as to allow departing A/C from ML to get away sometime before dawn!
As a PVT pilot the winds where always a headwind when you hired a plane, why is that?
Wmk2
Well it wasn't just you jet jockeys who had all the fun. I ventured out in my Scout in Tassie and had 60 knots GS out of YWYY into the west (100 tas) and 40 knots on the nose at THRUM where I touched down in about 10 meters. YSMI had about 30 straight down 28 and I was well above 500 feet over the end at gross. All in all a great days fun.
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A good friend of my parents who passed away last year was a pilot in the Battle of Britain. Did his initial training at Western Junction near Launceston. Had stories about the westerlies kicking up unexpectedly. For Tiger Moths in the circuit, ground personnel would be lined up alongside the runway and would jump on the Tiger Moth wingtips as they landed. A few cases of the occasional go round with an additional pax or two. Someone would staff the phone to keep in touch (if possible) with those on navexes who couldn't get back and landed somewhere else.
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About 12 years ago a beauty front came through Christchurch while we were on the ground. A training aircraft from Cantabury Aero Club was racing in from the beach trying to beat it to the field. It was a close run thing, he landed on the grass 20 just as the windsock turned and the cold air swept across the field. Two instructors ran across the grass and held onto the wingtips so he could turn and taxi off. I think it was a good call not to turn across the wind until they helped him or he might have ended up like the chap in Essenden.
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NZWN right now.
wellington (nzwn):
atis nzwn h 2223
apch: Expect ils dme approach
rwy: 34
sfc cond: Damp
wind: 320/35g50 max60 230v020
vis: 15km red 5km
wx: Rain showers
cld: Sct014 bkn017
temperature: 16
dew point: 11
qnh: 993
sigwx: Cross wind mean 15 knots maximum 20 knots windshear and
turbulence on final approach
2000ft wind: Reported 330/60=
atis nzwn h 2223
apch: Expect ils dme approach
rwy: 34
sfc cond: Damp
wind: 320/35g50 max60 230v020
vis: 15km red 5km
wx: Rain showers
cld: Sct014 bkn017
temperature: 16
dew point: 11
qnh: 993
sigwx: Cross wind mean 15 knots maximum 20 knots windshear and
turbulence on final approach
2000ft wind: Reported 330/60=
