Ever fly on days you know you shouldn't? Trees were swaying, and my gut was saying no. But I guess you never know until you try. I'd have to say that I couldn't fly in this wind. The ground track of the aircraft was so unintuitive, especially on landing. At times it was just hoovering overhead making minimal progress.
Days like this that really test your autopilot.
Anyway, this video shows my full auto-landing sequence, complete with the dive from 180 feet down to 50, and final flare with reverse thrust. The throttle you hear on landing is reverse, not forward thrust.
Entire flight is automated. Takeoff, flight to 3 waypionts, and finally landing. Enjoy :)
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I can see myself doing it instantaneously by figuring out where my track SHOULD go (given pitot airspeed and heading) and get the difference between that and where I actually ended up.
PS - My pitot always gets clogged. I think it's just bad luck. Fortunately this is detectable and I revert to GPS airspeed and sound the warning bells.
Dean
Yep, based on this I can easily see the winds must have been 28+mph.