Ever see a Helio Courier land in a strong breeze. At light
weights they can fly at about 20 knots. Even at full gross
they don't need more than 40 knots to get off the ground.


"Bonehenge (B A R R Y)"
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| On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:24:20 -0700, "Robert M. Gary"
| wrote:
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| I've never seen winds at 25 knots that were not gusty
though.
|
| On the rare occasions I see them steady, they're in
coastal or island
| locations.
|
| I do
| know a CFI who took off in a C-152, then landed back on
the numbers w/
| o ever changing heading (and he didn't fly around the
earth first).
|
| That's funny. I would have loved to have seen it. We
used to do that
| with r/c's, and I've heard of it done full scale, but I've
never been
| lucky enough to witness it.