OT : Slightly bumpy touchdown....

I'd say that relative to the air, sure it's going straight ahead
(ignoring wind shear) but it's not /looking/ as though it's going in a
different direction to which it's pointing; relative to the ground and
therefore the camera, it really is. Given that the camera/ground
viewpoint is the 'obvious' one, that's the way I'd naturally interpret
it.

 

Dave Emerson wibbled:

Not necessarily



I reckon it was binned 'coz the sceptics couldn't compete

 

I'm no expert and I'm knoppixed as well, but that looks like a fuckup.
He approaches nose into wind, and everything is looking fine and dandy,
then, he kicks it straight miles up in the air, the x-wind drifts him
off line, he then rolls the starboard wing down, having lost height
already, then thinks "Oh ****!", tries to level it and nose back into
wind, then makes a landing. 'Course at this point everyone is thinking
bollicks to that and we go around again.

 

This is more on-topic...

 

Welcome to relativity

 

Coming in to Heathrow the night of the big storm of 1987 was not far off
that ...

quite a x wind

 

It looks like riding home around 10:30PM on Friday. Parts of the A46
are open with nothing to stop the wind, it's a bit of a blackspot with a
local reputation for high winds and lorries are 'often' blown over (ok,
maybe not often but it isn't uncommon.) I guess it was pretty bad
'cos the laybys were all packed with lorries.

On the exposed parts I *really* had to fight with the bike to keep it
going in a straight line. I've never ridden in wind that bad before, or
at least had to fight a bike that hard.

The forty odd miles of motorway I'd done prior to this weren't much fun
either. Still, it didn't get me that time.

 

Ok, have it your way.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Ah maybe it was a lorry that caused it to be shut around 1am Saturday
when I tried to get down it. There was a sign on the M4 saying A46
accident but nothing about it being shut, so tanking down the first
couple of miles only to find a line of cones across the road was
something of a surprise.

I was really, really glad that I'd gone to Brum dancing first or I'd
have been on the bike. It wasn't fun in the borrowed car.

Dents in the tank from the knee gripping?

 

That was the pilot's doing, not the wind. When he applies a bootful of
left rudder too "kick it straight" the right wing travels further than
the left (being on the outside of an arc) and therefore generates more
lift. Right wing goes up, left wing goes down.

The pilot should have compensated by applying right stick along with
the left rudder (a process known as "crossing the controls" - an
essential part of any crosswind landing, even a crabbed approach like
the one in the vid), but that's obviously much easier said than done
when it's all kicking off and you're trying not to kill people.

 

<nods> - hence my comment about pilot competence.

 

Yup, sorry. I posted that without doing a "Get New Messages" first -
looks like you ginged me by some considerable margin.

 

Or on this one, I've no doubt.

--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"A scone and tea at half past three
Makes the day a little brighter
Keep your cakes and fancy tarts
And stick them up your shiter."