Comments on: Wind Farm Wake Turbulence Inefficiency

By: Cap'n Bob

Cap'n Bob — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:59:34 +0000

LOL!

ARTCC: Anal-Rectal Traffic Control Center (as opposed to Air Route TCC). Piloting that ol’ T-Bone was hours and hours of boredom punctuated with fleeting moments of sheer terror.

By: sig94

sig94 — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:38:54 +0000

Sphincter Control, this is T-Bone… we have a problem.

By: Cap'n Bob

Cap'n Bob — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:46:22 +0000

Regarding the wake turbulence - I inadvertently flew a twin Bonanza (”T-bone,” as we used to call it) across the wingtip vortices of a C-130 Hercules - not an extremely big aircraft. We crossed the wake at roughly right angles, so the turbulence was brief, but put everything in the cockpit not tied down on the overhead for a moment before slamming it all back down.

Sphincter control in such an event is critical.

By: drjim

drjim — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:09:30 +0000

I saw some on a convoy of trailers coming out of Long Beach harbor a couple of weeks ago. Don’t know where they were headed, but they sure had traffic in knots.
As far as wake turbulence goes….just another DUH!
As sig notes, any small aircraft pilot can tell you horror stories about the wing top vortices generated by a large aircraft.

By: sig94

sig94 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:54:53 +0000

I saw the same thing on I-95 in Pennsylvania. I could not believe the size of those blades.

My brother is involved in amateur aviation and states that jets have to stay at least five miles behind other jets in order not to be affected by the disturbance coming off the wing tips. Not the engines - the tips of the wings. This turbulence is incredibly strong and can cause small craft to completely lose control.