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Dec. 27th, 2010 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysWellington airport does have a hair raising reputation but while I have experienced a few rather disconcerting landings there I have always maintained that the roughest landings that I have had to endure have been at Christchurch airport. After today, that is no longer the case.
Apart from the usual bumps and shakes, a couple of additional niceties that this flight provided... A weather announcement for Wellington which indicated that wind gusts were just 10K short of the speed that I happen to know would close the airport to big jets. But we weren't in a big jet we were in a little Beech 1900D and in one of those if you care to look down the aisle you can see through the cockpit window. Seeing what the pilot sees isn't great under the circumstances. I did notice that the plane wasn't actually flying in the direction that its nose was pointing.
Phew. Glad to be home.
Apart from the usual bumps and shakes, a couple of additional niceties that this flight provided... A weather announcement for Wellington which indicated that wind gusts were just 10K short of the speed that I happen to know would close the airport to big jets. But we weren't in a big jet we were in a little Beech 1900D and in one of those if you care to look down the aisle you can see through the cockpit window. Seeing what the pilot sees isn't great under the circumstances. I did notice that the plane wasn't actually flying in the direction that its nose was pointing.
Phew. Glad to be home.