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Deadly Thermals!!!!
A friend of mine passed me this article about the deadly thermal currents
over Nevada. What a hoot! I've been flying over deserts for 20 yrs. and never realized how much danger I was in! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl.../MNJTS506U.DTL Here's a sample : "Shane Gorman took a tighter grip on the wheel of his Cessna 172 as the single-engine airplane suddenly leaped straight up in the air, then shimmied violently back and forth. At 8,000 feet, the lurches were gut-wrenching. "Feel that?" he said, a slight smile on his lips. "That's the kind of wind and thermal lifts we're dealing with out here. They're pretty tricky. You never know what they're really going to do." That's exactly the kind of weather condition that helped send hundreds of airplanes crashing to earth in Nevada over the past 10 years and probably played a part in the outright disappearance of more than 100 others here over the past half-century. It's the kind of dangerous conditions that those who have been searching for adventurer Steve Fossett, whose plane disappeared Sept. 3, are afraid might have killed him. If the winds don't slap an airplane to the ground here, brutal thermal drafts - hot air rising up off the desert floor - can blast a craft dozens of feet up or down so fast that it goes spinning. Even the altitude is an enemy: Most of Nevada is so high, at 5,000 feet, that the air-fuel mixture can become thin enough to cut engine power if a pilot isn't paying attention. And that's just the flying danger. ... " I usually don't expect much from reporters, but this one is just over the top. John Galban======N4BQ (PA28-180) -- Message posted via AviationKB.com http://www.aviationkb.com/Uwe/Forums...ation/200709/1 |
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Deadly Thermals!!!!
"JGalban" wrote: A friend of mine passed me this article about the deadly thermal currents over Nevada. What a hoot! I've been flying over deserts for 20 yrs. and never realized how much danger I was in! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl.../MNJTS506U.DTL Dang! I thought I had a winner: http://www.beatricedailysun.com:80/a...news/news5.txt but yours knocks mine out of the lead, John. What a dope. -- Dan T-182T at BFM |
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Deadly Thermals!!!!
On Sep 14, 11:23 am, "Dan Luke" wrote:
"JGalban" wrote: A friend of mine passed me this article about the deadly thermal currents over Nevada. What a hoot! I've been flying over deserts for 20 yrs. and never realized how much danger I was in! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...9/13/MNJTS506U... Dang! I thought I had a winner: http://www.beatricedailysun.com:80/a...news/news5.txt but yours knocks mine out of the lead, John. What a dope. :-) Those valiant souls who dare to take up gliding.. Who wants to take that reporter into wave ? |
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Deadly Thermals!!!!
"Dan Luke" wrote in message ... "JGalban" wrote: A friend of mine passed me this article about the deadly thermal currents over Nevada. What a hoot! I've been flying over deserts for 20 yrs. and never realized how much danger I was in! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl.../MNJTS506U.DTL Dang! I thought I had a winner: http://www.beatricedailysun.com:80/a...news/news5.txt but yours knocks mine out of the lead, John. What a dope. -- So the 1959 Tri-Packer ultralight crashed because someone hadn't filled out the annual report? |
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Deadly Thermals!!!!
"Maxwell" wrote in
: So the 1959 Tri-Packer ultralight crashed because someone hadn't filled out the annual report? Nope, it was because he didn't file a Flight Plan. g |
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Deadly Thermals!!!!
No, your article has more flavor of ignorance and inaccuracy.
The SFgate article tastes ridiculously dramatic with a hint of stupidity. I like the Nebraska bit better. airplanes "slapped" to the ground, hee hee. Piper Tri-"Packer" that's just hilarious. Dan Luke wrote: but yours knocks mine out of the lead, John. What a dope. -- Message posted via AviationKB.com http://www.aviationkb.com/Uwe/Forums...ation/200709/1 |
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Deadly Thermals!!!!
"John Godwin" wrote in message ... "Maxwell" wrote in : So the 1959 Tri-Packer ultralight crashed because someone hadn't filled out the annual report? Nope, it was because he didn't file a Flight Plan. g But that was before the stall.....what would make the engine quit, anyway? |
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