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Oh, wet and windy Wellington


macca22au

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Accurate shot.

The runway runs more or less North South & the prevailing wind is a North Wester, so in the windiest season, usually Spring, a lot of 'crabbing' landings occur.

On the other hand, landing into the teeth of a Southerly gale can be particularly lumpy.

I recall a flight into Wellington from Sydney many years ago, arriving in a very turbulent southerly, to the extent that the fuselage was twisting as the plane bounced around. Lots of creaking a groaning from the fuselage & wings, then a particularly nasty atmospheric  'wrench' had some of the overhead lockers fly open.

TTM

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I've always noticed that the worse the local weather, the more the local pilots enjoy bragging about it. "There I was at 500 feet when the wind reversed direction and doubled in velocity while the barometer dropped sixteen points and a hundred-mile-an-hour wind shear hit the entire runway. But of course, shucks, that's just a normal day for us who fly out of......"

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