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Old December 30th 06, 08:38 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Jack ([email protected]) Jack (jack.harrison@gmail.com) is offline
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Default 757 Landing in strong winds

I was intrigued by the full spoiler deployment (roll control) on the
right wing.

It reminds me of Leeds/Bradford airport in a westerly gale that often
produced mountain wave rotor. Now landing in those conditions was
always FUN.

Metar Sea-Tac for mid afternoon Wednesday KSEA 282153Z 35008KT

Metar series:

http://meteocentre.com/cgi-bin/get_s...=KSEA&DELT=360

shows no winds to give any cause for comment on either last Wednesday
(as the clip suggests) or even the Wednesday before. Strange.

(I had to use IE7 - wouldn't work with Firefox)

Jack