ORIGINAL: Campgems
ORIGINAL: hugger-4641
The problem is most begginers are not aware of aerodynamic theories, fluid physics, and full scale pilot instructions. All they need to know at first is: ''Be carefull making turns downwind'', or upwind for that matter!
There seems to be another theory that is missing from this argument. Momentum. An abrupt change in wind direction or azimuth doesn't cause an abrupt change in the aircraft aerodynamics. A body in motion tends to stay in motion, and a body a rest tends to stay a rest.
A quote I saw a while back seem to apply here.
'' in theory, reality and theory are the same. In reality, they are not''
There is Theories and there is reality. You debate the theories and experience the reality.
Don
Don, this made me want to light some candles and a pipe and meditate. You are correct but my, how far we went from a basic question about a sim and wind speed. OK, the thread is shot so what the hay. Wind speed is a lot of fun, one of the guys brought out one of those cool weather stations to the lake bed. After it was all set up and the wind kicked in we started asking all the pilots to guess the wind speed. The answers to this simple question told us why we had so many high wind pilots posting about flying in 40 mph winds. 5mph turned into 15, 10 was over 30, 15 was gale force and 20 was pack it up and get off the lake bed. Well, at about 15 that sand does start to get a bit nasty. Getting all these guestaments was a lot of fun when people didn't know we had the meter, from guys that knew we had it set up the guesses were a lot closer. Go figure. For a good time go read the post below, wind is fun.