Jack ) wrote:
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)

What's the name of that phenomenon where a finger of sheer pokes out of
a strong downdraught. I can't remember when but the subject came up
some years back with a thread like this.