Matthew Law wrote: > Congratulations, Lee! Will you be carrying on and getting a glider license? > > > Turbulence sucks: when I'm flying, I usually try to climb out above > > it. Turbulence often means thermals and updrafts, though, so I > > imagine that soaring types actually go looking for it. The gusts > > disappear usually a few hundred feet above the ground. The turbulence > > disappears anywhere between 1,000 and 10,000 feet above the ground, > > depending on all kinds of factors. > > I agree :-) In a C152 with one aboard it certainly gets a little bumpy > around the circuit even nauseous sometimes. The worst turbulence I've > been in so far was just beneath a bank of fluffy cumulus clouds. I > thought the airframe was going to fail and for the first time since I > started flying I wished I had my parachute on!
I am trying to avoid to fly on the afternoon in summer. It even happened that my head hit the top of the canopy. I wouldn't imagine what could happen if I'd forgot to fasten my seat belt. That, with the fact that I am too heavy to fly in a C150 with tanks full, that I often fly alone on the left seat, that the planes I rent are not very well trimed and the engine torque, can explain that flying is sometimes an, well, interesting experience. I noticed that it is more difficult to maintain straight and level with low powered planes (100hp) than with more powerfull planes. I often have to maintain the stick frankly on the left ( with no trim ) to avoid the plane to tilt. And with a heat bubble hitting only one wing on occasion, you are assured to get sensations. -Fred _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
