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03-31-2019, 04:32 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Gilbert, AZ
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Now I know how Dorothy and Toto felt!
The Summertime Kansas winds can really pack a wallop! I visited Salina for a few days last week and tied down on their massive ramp. When I was ready to depart the winds were 170 degrees at 38 knots, gusting to 45! Two large men held down the wings while I untied the ropes, loaded and started. I told the tower I was unable to taxi crosswind to runway 17 and would they mind if I took off from the ramp. "No problem, cleared for takeoff." The takeoff roll must have been all of 100 feet!
When I landed in Houston I unscrewed the tie down rings. Here's how they looked!
 tiedowns bent
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03-31-2019, 05:12 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Bay Pines, FL (based @ KCLW)
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Wow! That's scary.
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03-31-2019, 05:24 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dayton, NV
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And THIS is the place they pick for an aerobatic championship ?!?! The aerobatics will be just getting off and on the deck!
Wow! 
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Paul F. Dye
Editor at Large - KITPLANES Magazine
RV-8 - N188PD - "Valkyrie"
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Dayton Valley Airpark (A34)
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03-31-2019, 05:49 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Collierville, TN (KFYE)
Posts: 1,433
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Holy sheet! What kind of gust lock do you use?
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03-31-2019, 06:15 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: torrance, ca
Posts: 645
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I'll bet finding the tie-down rings like that gave you quite the schreck! 
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03-31-2019, 06:15 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Ottawa, Ks
Posts: 2,188
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I learned to fly at KSLN, I recall landing a C150 with full flaps on a similar day and was stopped before I could touch the flap switch.
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03-31-2019, 06:42 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Locust, NC
Posts: 440
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Years ago I experience similar winds, request, clearance and bent rings at ROW. Except it was in a Mooney.
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03-31-2019, 07:03 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Vero Beach, FL
Posts: 880
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Ok, Ron, are you sure this isn't an early April Fools joke? If so, I like your sense of humor, and you punked at lot of people! If not, pretty unbelievable! 
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03-31-2019, 07:05 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Utah
Posts: 8,144
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Been there. Winds in Kansastan do wonders
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03-31-2019, 07:11 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 2,787
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I'm Kansas raised. I believe in Toto and Red tie down rings.
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Cincinnati, OH
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