A question of wind

[HagarTheHorrible]

I caught the, very tail, end of flying on the OG server this evening (Catch 22, on channel 4 UK, was a bigger pull).  The second mission of the evening for me  was set just to the South of Stalingrad with "light" 5 m/s wind, not that I'd bothered to read the mission info you understand, but on spawning in the windsocks were fair old giving it laldy, as if a force 10 hurricane was baring down on the poor little darlings, and at right angles to the line of the runway I'll have you know.  Well if there's one thing that WW1 flyers moan on about and that is the need to take off and land into the wind, pretty much regardless of severity.  Well muggins here did a 180, from where he spawned in, faced into wind, at 90 deg from the runway, and made a complete balls up of taking off, first one wing lifted, clipped the ground, then the other.  The two Camels spawning in beside me headed to the runway and took off, as did I on my second attempt, without the slightest consideration for the wind, blowing at 90 deg to the direction of take off, a piece of cake, a walk in the park, no corrective measures, open the throttle, lift the tail and Bobs your Bertie Wooster.

 

Either the windsocks were working for the opposition and telling porkies (the bonfire smoke  was rather calm by comparison and gently wafting in a different direction to the winsocks) or the wind is a bit of an irrelivance in FC.

[Zooropa_Fly]

You may have to decode "laldy" ?

[Cynic_Al]

We had this farce in Rise of Flight and I'm not certain it ever was fixed. You could have two adjacent windsocks pointing in different directions. The fix was to delete the errant windsock then replace it with another and usually it was OK. If ever you suspect a faulty windsock reading, while static on the airfield, just fire a flare as vertically as possible and watch the direction it takes.

[PercyfromPorlock]

2 hours ago, Zooropa_Fly said:

You may have to decode "laldy" ?

 

In the Glasgow vernacular, otherwise known as 'the patter', 'Giving it Laldy' is to do something vigorously or enthusiastically.

[Cynic_Al]

1 minute ago, PercyfromPorlock said:

 

In the Glasgow vernacular, otherwise known as 'the patter', 'Giving it Laldy' is to do something vigorously or enthusiastically.

 

You'd think ZF would know that, given that (IIRC) he himself suffers from acute Glaswegianism.

[Zooropa_Fly]

I do know, but many probably won't !

 

Not surprised you're in on this one Cynic, excessive wind being your speciality n'all

 

S!

[HagarTheHorrible]

4 hours ago, PercyfromPorlock said:

 

In the Glasgow vernacular, otherwise known as 'the patter', 'Giving it Laldy' is to do something vigorously or enthusiastically.

 

What, you mean like when I wash my little willy ? 

 

edit.  (Sorry wrong forum, I thought this was TC, lest the thought police imagined, mucky bugers, I might be making rude and crude jokes about male thingies, and yes it is blooming cold at 14,000 ft, or at least that's my excuse. )

Edited June 21, 2019 by HagarTheHorrible

[SP1969]

 

9 hours ago, HagarTheHorrible said:

 

What, you mean like when I wash my little willy ? 

 

edit.  (Sorry wrong forum, I thought this was TC, lest the thought police imagined, mucky bugers, I might be making rude and crude jokes about male thingies, and yes it is blooming cold at 14,000 ft, or at least that's my excuse. )

 

 

Perish the thought; we all know when it comes to smut, you can keep it up all night, old boy.

Edited June 21, 2019 by SP1969

[PercyfromPorlock]

18 hours ago, HagarTheHorrible said:

it is blooming cold at 14,000 ft, or at least that's my excuse. )

 

Frostbite might be an issue. But we really should get back to your problem with wind...