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Originally Posted by flipper35
They might look fluffy, but the average cumulus cloud is 1.1 million pound of water vapor.
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The one we skimmed was a way under average little wimpy almost not there cloud. It was still a little bumpy.
I can't even imagine the folks that fly INTO a hurricane on purpose. That has to be an exciting ride. I will pass.
We had a 14 knott wind for landing yesterday. The pilot I hire is an instructor, and learned and teaches in Oklahoma so it is no big deal to deal with that wind. It was no big deal at all. That instructor went to work down in Florida for a while with a school. He said the first day of orientation the Chief pilot was giving a briefing to all the pilots. He was saying that it was going to be a really windy day, and they could expect 8 to 10 knott winds. He told them that was a nice calm flying day in Oklahoma. One other instructor wanted to get practice in cross wind landing and came up to Oklahoma and said it was terrifying.