Holy headwind

This morning I drove to Willmar, in a 70,000lb truck, in a sustained 40mph headwind. Top speed, 62. The foot on the floor was like cruise control. Every once in a great while I would hit a low spot with tree cover and the rig would shoot up to 70, then I would get back into the wind and slam back to 60 or so. It's not too often you have to downshift on flat land to overcome wind. Driving it home,...

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... did not help on the first straight either, roaring like a dragon (although i have never met one) at my ears as i tried to cut a path through its wrath ( hey that rhymes!). running into a headwind is no joke- it's like having an invisible soft barrier that is pushing against you. the more force you use to resist, the stronger it seems to push back. the only distraction i had was kannan running in ...

Nearly Done

... later (I can't figure out the timezones) - arrive in LAX. - two hours after that - depart LAX for Sydney. - fourteen and a half hours later - land in Sydney. Was there a fucking headwind? - four hours later - plane departs Sydney for Canberra. - one hour later - plane arrives in Canberra. Small delay with landing - first attempt at a descent turned the cabin into a Pop-O-Matic Bubble. Bumpy! - ...

Saturday.

... a portapotty stop, and I didn't see him again. The first three loops went.. okay. I didn't feel particularly strong, but the weather just wasn't helping. Going one direction, we had a big ol' headwind. The other directions, we had no wind, and the humidity and the temperature were awful. When I started my MGP loop, alone, I knew it wasn't going to feel Good. As I started ticking off the miles, I...

Road-trippus interruptus

...Thursday morning, we flew to Merrill for Thanksgiving with vakkotaur 's parents. It was a nice flight, ahead of some snow showers. We got home Friday with no problems, even despite a 25- to 30-knot headwind. Saturday, we drove to Ames for a graduation party for a friend from the Pilots of America web forum. Today, we bummed around with them a bit, then left Ames about 3:30. We got as far ...

NorrrCal

... way up the 5 into norcal. It wasn't just a light breeze, either... I swear, it must have been a sustained 20mph wind for a good portion of the drive, and the worst part was it was mostly headwind. Well, I suppose that's also the good part of it, since the occasional cross wind gusts did make for some interesting driving. Anyway, made it up to Yote's place in San Jose just fine, and actually got ...

12K report and Garmin elevation question

...it, since the half will have some. Of course I was then pretty tired by the time we ended the first out-and-back and headed on to the second, where I was greeted with not just another hill, but a headwind. I plugged along and tried to keep my pace under 10 min/mile. With just over a mile left I passed a guy who had passed me earlier and after we joked briefly about why on earth we were spending ...

“Aviation 101”

...a captain who never flew as copilot is a copilot who once was a captain. Be nice to your first officer, he may be your captain at your next airline. Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwind. A thunderstorm is never as bad on the inside as it appears on the outside. It's worse. Son, I was flying airplanes for a living when you were still in liquid form. It's easy to ...

Doesn't look like this was mentioned...but President Bush will address the nation tonight at 9pm EDT on the current Banking Crisis and the $700 billion bailout plan. He's gonna have one serious headwind selling this plan. Good luck. lol.