On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:41:58 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

Roger wrote in
:

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:27:50 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

Kai Rode wrote in
:

On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:08:55 +0100, Kai Rode wrote:

What kind of aircraft?

An Aero AT-3 VLA. http://www.s2taviation.com/aero.htm

Winds 230@20 on runway 29 was a 17.5 crosswind
componant

Actually it's 15 kts crosswind component.



Actually it's a 17.320508075688772935274463415059 kt crosswind

Guess I'm going to have to retire the old "Versa Trig". I can only
get a fraction of those significant digits. But what can you expect
from bamboo.

Heh heh. I used the calculator on my laptop for that and it went on a
bit further, I think! Not very practical to use when you're sliding down
finals with a x-wind on the limit. With 60 degrees of the nose, i'd
count the entire windspeed as the componenet for several reasons, not
the least of which is the added drama when you're telling your buds in
the bar about it afterwards.

I usually leave out the details when I tell them about taking off from
Marysvill KS when the winds were 30G50 too. Invariably someone asks
about the "dreaded down wind turn":-)) Of course I think they used
the terrain as a template for optically flat glass. Other than the
shack...er terminal building and corn stalks there wasn't anything
sticking up for two miles. That and even the taxi was almost straight
into the wind. I will admit that I had the trim set to neutral and
carried a bit of extra speed before letting it lift off.

As this is also on a student group I'll also add it was not a 150 or
172 which I wouldn't even untie in that kind of wind.:-))

Bertie
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com