Hi! Georg Vollnhals wrote: > A Lufthansa A 320 touched! the runway with one winglet (damaged) in the > final phase of the landing when not only executing a crosswind landing > but getting into a heavy unexpected gust.
Looks like a horrible situation I would wish never to get into, neither as a pilot nor as a passenger. > BTW: is there any possibility to load a special METAR situation into > FlightGear? You can use the metar-tool (included in FlightGear) to determine the command line settings based on a METAR message. > Is a METAR file of this time (EDDH, Saturday 01.Febr.2008, 14:00) > available anywhere? According to http://adds.aviationweather.gov/metars/index.php these were the METARs for EDDH around that time: EDDH 011450Z 29027G40KT 8000 BKN035 07/01 Q0991 TEMPO 30035G55KT EDDH 011420Z 29029G43KT 8000 -SHRA BKN029 07/02 Q0990 TEMPO 30035G55KT EDDH 011350Z 29030G44KT 8000 BKN029 BKN120 07/02 Q0989 TEMPO 30035G55KT 4000 SHRA BKN008 EDDH 011320Z 29029G44KT 8000 -SHRA BKN023 07/03 Q0987 TEMPO 4000 SHRA BKN008 EDDH 011250Z 30030G49KT 8000 FEW015 BKN020 08/04 Q0986 TEMPO 4000 SHRA BKN008 EDDH 011220Z 29028G48KT 9000 -SHRA FEW011 BKN014 07/05 Q0984 TEMPO 29035G55KT 4000 SHRA BKN008 Temporary gusts up to 55 knots...nothing more to say about that... Cheers, Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
