ChiefPilot
Well Known Member
I've seen this occasionally before but this was the first time it happened while a camera was pointed at it. The conditions have to be just right, but it's pretty neat when it happens.
The curious thing is the unpredictability of it. Clearly the temperature and the dew point need to be really close, and the humidity has to be sufficiently high. But I had the opportunity to "play" with these a bit at that time.
I found that modulating pitch to increase/decrease load factor impacted it (of course) but also yaw affected it. I could skid towards or away from it and it'd disappear but when the ball was centered it appeared pretty consistantly.
The curious thing is the unpredictability of it. Clearly the temperature and the dew point need to be really close, and the humidity has to be sufficiently high. But I had the opportunity to "play" with these a bit at that time.
I found that modulating pitch to increase/decrease load factor impacted it (of course) but also yaw affected it. I could skid towards or away from it and it'd disappear but when the ball was centered it appeared pretty consistantly.