North Carolina Aircraft Owners

"Marco Leon" mleon(at)optonline.net wrote in message ...
Your points make total sense. Points well taken. I will not use that number
anymore. It does beg the question though of WHAT it can really take. I don't
believe any tests are required or have been done for most aircraft so we
really can't be sure. Maybe I should start worrying about the 50 kt winds
after all...

Last time there was a major landfall of a huricane in Florida, almost all
of the schemes including putting spoiners on the wings were found to
be largely ineffective. Evacuation is the best suggestion (a little
late for that now).

Ron Natalie wrote:

Evacuation is the best suggestion (a little late for that now).

Not for Marco, if he hurries. He's in New York, and the weather is still VFR
here in New Jersey. In fact, it looks like the winds would make it a fast run
if you headed west, though taking off would be interesting - winds in the area
are reported to be in the teens with gusts in the mid 20s at the moment.

George Patterson
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that cannot
be learned any other way. Samuel Clemens

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...


Ron Natalie wrote:

Evacuation is the best suggestion (a little late for that now).

Not for Marco, if he hurries. He's in New York,

Oh, I was paying attention to the subject line (NC).

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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winds in the area
are reported to be in the teens with gusts in the mid 20s at the moment.

Us hairy-chested Midwesterners consider that a mere zephyr. Right, Jay? :-)

Henry

Henry Kisor wrote:

Us hairy-chested Midwesterners consider that a mere zephyr. Right, Jay? :-)

But visibility less than 25 miles is IMC, right?

George Patterson
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that cannot
be learned any other way. Samuel Clemens

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
...


Henry Kisor wrote:

Us hairy-chested Midwesterners consider that a mere zephyr. Right, Jay?
:-)

But visibility less than 25 miles is IMC, right?


Why, George, in such conditions we non-hearing pilots just fly Deaf
IFR--that is, we shut our eyes and hope for the best. :-)

I have seen the winds at Lake Havasu (HII) up to 67 mph and all the
planes did fine. Out here in the Apple Valley, Hesperia (APV-L26) area
the wind are in the teens-40s all the time.

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