Bad weather and aviation are not good friends. Windsheers, hail, fog and turbulences could make your flight a nightmare. I know lightning is not a danger and that weather screens in the copits make pilots job an easy thing. But sometimes we can´t avoid a bumpy landing. I include a PIC of a german airport after having landed in an unconfortable flight. Just watch the colour of the sky. How was your worst landing due to bad weather?.
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By: wysiwyg - 26th September 2002 at 17:53
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No, I live near Heathrow but am frequently 6 miles over Oporto.
By: keltic - 26th September 2002 at 17:40
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Oporto….do you live in Oporto?. Anyway, weather in Spain is as complex as the characters of the Spaniards 🙂
By: wysiwyg - 26th September 2002 at 08:18
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Whenever I am getting the weather for the Iberian peninsular it always amazes me the extremes of weather Madrid experiences from summer to winter compared to the rest of that land mass.
(Saab – Opporto always seems to be experiencing Guernsey type weather)
By: keltic - 25th September 2002 at 18:51
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In the Mediterranean bad weather is quite often specially in september and october. The main reason is that the atmosphere is getting colder suddenly and both climates (the heat of the summer) colide causing “perfect storms”. Yesterday, the weather over there caused hail and floods. Where I live (northwest) the temperature is more like the UK and storms are not violent. Problem the effect of Atlantic gales, which bring windy, wet and persistent distructions. In the Cannary Islands and Andalucia the weather tend to be soft, warm and calm. In the centre of Spain the storms are not often. In the north, persistent rains and foggy days in winter and autumn. Inside Spain the continental weather, brings snow sometimes.
By: A330Crazy - 25th September 2002 at 17:23
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 25-09-02 AT 05:23 PM (GMT)]Very gloomy looking Keltic. My worst flight in Bad weather was when I took off from Gerona, Spain, very well known for its bad storms. 🙁
Was in 1999, went for a hoilday in Calella de la Costa, day I went home, started to really cloud over on the journey from the hotel to the airport, I was just hoping that it was gonna hold out.
Got to the airport, and the flight was delayed {Britannina flight} for an hour, cos of where it was coming from they had run out of cargo containers…anyway…. was sitting in the terminal looking out of the window onto the runway waiting for plane to come in, and the heavens opened! Never seen rain like it!!! Really bad storm. Had lightening that shot into the ground, never seen that before either. 🙁
Eventually the plane came in and we were on our way. Just before our flight landed, a Hapag Lloyd flight had came in and the passengers were given buses to get them form the aircraft to the terminal… All the passengers on our plane had to walk out to the plane across the tarmac, whilst lightning was shooting all over the place. 🙁
Plane eventually took to the sky, bit of a bumpy take-off though, made me feel really ill. 🙁 When we were on the plane, I was getting bumped all over the place, storm was getting really bad, went on until we got half way over France, so it spanned a long way.
A couple of months later, on the news, a Britannia 757 crashed landed at Gerona because of a bad storm. 🙁 Sot his is evidence that its a bad weather airport.
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September 25, 2002 at 5:12 pm