Best Storm Stories

This is not a storm story :-)

Once at my home airfield (Hammer) in Denmark we had a very strong increase in the wind at about 150 meters - 500 feet. We still had an old Ka-8B and a Bergfalke (still flying) back then, so we figured out that when we took a winch launch, it was possible to fly so slowly that we went backwards. So we managed to fly a whole flight without turning. A winch launch, slow down, fly backwards until you were behind the airfield and then speed up and go down to land.

The funny thing was that when you were standing at the start point at the airfield, there were not much wind. So we stood there in almost calm and looked up at our Bergfalke and Ka-8B flying backward over our heads. Very strange view.

Best regards Mads, Denmark.