RE: High Wind Flying
[color=#FF0099]Greybeard...that is just fabulous to hear about your student!!!! I also remember my first turns into a wicked headwind...pretty cool stuff!!!! I agree about the wind speeds... we all chipped in and bought a "weather channel" system for our field last year... we get wind speed, temp, wind chill factor(as if we need that here!) and precipitation... As practice, we would guess the speed and then check the base unit to see what it "really" was... after a while, those field "estimates" got more in line with reality!!!
Side note: the evening news says Tropical Storm Henri has formed in the eastern Caribbean...good news is they say it will fall apart before it gets to Hispanola.