When you travel to another airport and have to leave the plane parked outside for a night with good forecasted weather, how critical do you guys think it is to be able to tie the airplane down? I was recently at an airport where the available tie-down rings at the FOB were frozen into the ground. The sun melted them and freed them for me pretty quickly, but it got me wondering in general. I would assume it would take a pretty strong gust of wind before tie-down are really necessary, but perhaps this is naive.
Do you consider tie-down an absolute requirement whenever parking the plane outside overnight, regardless of expected weather?
Do you consider tie-down an absolute requirement whenever parking the plane outside overnight, regardless of expected weather?