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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Good guess- pilot, motorcyclist, bicyclist. The winds are almost always my nemesis.  |
Ah ha! Explains a lot. I do those things too, but for mental health purposes, I also sail. I used to be up north, but am not now. I built this to go fast on water, where it is hard to go three times wind speed:
But you, being a cold flatlander, should take up ice boating, where doing 4,5,6,7 times wind speed is pretty standard.
Where I live, the winds are about 1 knot when I go sailing... until I get near something I could hit, at which point the winds go to 45 knots gusting to 70, and I have to jump out of the way of the lighting strikes.
The idea is that sailing makes wind your friend -- rather than the foe it is while trying to get good mileage, while bicycling, while trying to make your motorcycle go straight, or trying to land near the runway. Good theory... but of course it doesn't work: there's hot and boring and there's terrifying. Nothing else.
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1:180 odds of the wind being lined up with the car...
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and 1:180 odds of the wind being a direct crosswind...